Recording a solo on a 4 bar loop

So I have a nice 4 bar sequence going with drums, synth bass, some samples etc. I wanna vamp on a Rhodes solo, just jam out - while the sequence keeps going.

Is there a way to do this? I turned LOOP to OFF on the main screen, but the rest of my sounds just stop playing after the 4 bars.

of course.

my way would be to copy your sequence with your loop in it to a new sequence and name it solo. in grid edit, copy your 4 bar loop on all your tracks to how many bars you want your solo to go to (from 4 onward - 16? 24? 32?) then record away. you can truncate unused bars if needed.

hope this helps.

I just do audio tracks and build the solo 4 bars at a time...then copy the sequence and replace the solo with the next section of the solo for 8...16...32 bars...I find this to be the easiest way

itslikezacanduh wrote:of course.

my way would be to copy your sequence with your loop in it to a new sequence and name it solo. in grid edit, copy your 4 bar loop on all your tracks to how many bars you want your solo to go to (from 4 onward - 16? 24? 32?) then record away. you can truncate unused bars if needed.

hope this helps.

yeah that's how I did it originally. But 32 bars wasn't enough - I ended up going over. I just thought there might be a way to just record until I felt like stopping the solo. Probably better in the long run to be more concise and make sure I get all I want to play in the 32 or 64 bars that I allot for myself.

BTW I should be more specific, I'm using a Rhodes program through my MIDI keyboard, so it's not an audio track.

From my forum search I found this thread with a great tip for recording Audio tracks in the same manner:

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=98549&hilit=+recording+solo

itslikezacanduh wrote:of course.

my way would be to copy your sequence with your loop in it to a new sequence and name it solo. in grid edit, copy your 4 bar loop on all your tracks to how many bars you want your solo to go to (from 4 onward - 16? 24? 32?) then record away. you can truncate unused bars if needed.

hope this helps.

dont u mean seq edit?

grid edits very slow for simply repeating a section.

swamp gravy wrote:

itslikezacanduh wrote:of course.

my way would be to copy your sequence with your loop in it to a new sequence and name it solo. in grid edit, copy your 4 bar loop on all your tracks to how many bars you want your solo to go to (from 4 onward - 16? 24? 32?) then record away. you can truncate unused bars if needed.

hope this helps.

yeah that's how I did it originally. But 32 bars wasn't enough - I ended up going over. I just thought there might be a way to just record until I felt like stopping the solo. Probably better in the long run to be more concise and make sure I get all I want to play in the 32 or 64 bars that I allot for myself.

BTW I should be more specific, I'm using a Rhodes program through my MIDI keyboard, so it's not an audio track.

From my forum search I found this thread with a great tip for recording Audio tracks in the same manner:

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=98549&hilit=+recording+solo

why not set the rhythm track/backing track as the SS (simult seq) which should loop indefinitely behind any shorter or longer seq's, and then jam the rhodes into a new sequence - while in overdub and just keep recording as long as u like, then stop when happy. transfer the rhodes jam track into the backing seq, after extending the backing seq to the right number of bars (using seq edit "bars").

arebee wrote:

swamp gravy wrote:

itslikezacanduh wrote:of course.

my way would be to copy your sequence with your loop in it to a new sequence and name it solo. in grid edit, copy your 4 bar loop on all your tracks to how many bars you want your solo to go to (from 4 onward - 16? 24? 32?) then record away. you can truncate unused bars if needed.

hope this helps.

yeah that's how I did it originally. But 32 bars wasn't enough - I ended up going over. I just thought there might be a way to just record until I felt like stopping the solo. Probably better in the long run to be more concise and make sure I get all I want to play in the 32 or 64 bars that I allot for myself.

BTW I should be more specific, I'm using a Rhodes program through my MIDI keyboard, so it's not an audio track.

From my forum search I found this thread with a great tip for recording Audio tracks in the same manner:

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=98549&hilit=+recording+solo

why not set the rhythm track/backing track as the SS (simult seq) which should loop indefinitely behind any shorter or longer seq's, and then jam the rhodes into a new sequence - while in overdub and just keep recording as long as u like, then stop when happy. transfer the rhodes jam track into the backing seq, after extending the backing seq to the right number of bars (using seq edit "bars").

that's a great idea. (i just discovered simult seq yesterday)