Just discovered a great way to loop any short unloopable wave file by using Steinberg's GRM Tools Volume 2 Freeze plugin. Thought i'd share this with you guys... *Fireup your sequencer and import any short wave file to an audio track (i use Steinberg's Nuendo 1.5.2)... *Set left and right locators to span at least 2-4 bars and activate the loop button... *Open up the VST Mixer and use the Freeze plug-in as an insert effect... *Press play to send the audio track to the effect... *As the audio track is playing, it'll show up as a waveform in the upper window of Freeze... *Press the Freeze button when you had reached the part that you want to loop... *Drag the ball in the superhandle window of the Freeze plug-in til you find a workable loop (doesn't have to be a perfect loop, you may even have some sort of click or pop which will ultimately disappear on the next step)... *Now here's the secret to create a perfect loop from the unloopable wave source, begin to drag the "number of loops" slider on the Freeze plugin all the way to the right (this somehow smoothes out the loop taking away any clicks or pops)... *Export the audio to an empty track or in this case make sure you have the "audio track" and "pool" options checked in Nuendo's export option (same goes with Cubase)... *and WALLA!!! You now have a perfect loop with a 2-4 bar sustain you can export and play around with in your sampler. *Adjust sampler's Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release to taste... *The Freeze plugin also has a "pitch" slider that you can play around with before you export the audio to an empty track. This enables you to multisample any unloopabable wave source for keymapping across a keyboard.
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and WALLA!!!
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