Working with analog synths / sampling / looping bounced audio

[isuckatproducing]

Hi,

I’m still waiting for my synths, but I’m wondering how to handle this in Logic Pro.
Let’s say I have a pad or a 1/16 rolling baseline with a longer release.

If I bounce it and loop it, it will probably sound weird because the release tail gets cut off at the end.

So lets say I want 1 bar rolling bass and then loop it, and then have 4 bar section where I automate the filter cut off, and then add it from time to time to the looped 1 bar loop to build tension.

Hope it makes sense.

Thanks

[kritikon]

There's a few ways of doing that.

If you want to loop bars then you could have 2 audio channels and every alternative bar you put it on the 2nd channel. So it goes: audio recording on channel 1, then next bar on Channel2, then channel1, then channel2 etc. That way it'll play the release portion at the end - but TBH not really needed and this is unnecessarily complicated. I use Cubase and my personal habit is to use "event to part" so I can copy over short audio recordings inside a longer part rather than copy whole 1 bar parts, but I do both. And I dunno how Logic handles that kind of thing but it will have something similar. RTFM unfortunately...

If it's a 16th bassline I'd just put a very short fade-out at the end of the 1-bar audio recording, as the odds are you'll have a bass hit on the first beat and if it's a mono synth it'll cut off when the 1st note hits anyway, so you don't need the release audio recording except when you stop the bassline.

That's mostly what I do for any 1 bar or 2bar basslines that don't need automation. If there's a gap before the bass hits at the start and you want to hear the release at the end, then you just record it over more than 1 bar.

If you need filter changes etc then you record however long you need the filter to change - in your case you'd record the 4bar loop where filter is tweaked.
If you're doing lots of filter or other parameters then just record the whole section. Looping small parts will be a PITA. I generally just do long audio recordings if I'm going to be tweaking a synth, even if only 8 bar sections. It's not like audio takes up huge amounts of disc space nowadays