Recording

[lespaulvic]

I hope I can type this to make sense..I am trying to record a guitar rhythm guitar song that I wrote and I am trying to record it in small sections as the book recommends and when I do this I get pauses between the different sections, since the beats that I set prior to recording are either too long or too short. I can set the beats to say 64 and record both rhythm parts with no problem, but then I can't record them as separate riffs and use different drum beats if I want. Does anyone have this problem, or am I just doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

[fooks]

hi lespaulvic, let's see what's up.
you are trying to record in small sections, 4bars, 8 bars? what most usually do is set a riff to 4 or 8 or whatever bars and play. what happens is you will get a new layer after every set of bars (4,6,8) with these you can duplicate the riff and mute the layers you don't want to hear. this way you have separate riffs with sequenced layers you can put up to the song bar and also change drummers.
it's also good to activate the button on the left that says "mute layers" this is so you won't hear what u have played before and get confused.

i was assuming that the "beats" you set were bars.
try this and let us know if that helps you.
and welcome to the best user friendly recording software anywhere!

[lespaulvic]

Yes, I meant "beats" I tried setting the beats to 8 and 16 and before I was finished playing it would loop and create another riff. Is this how it is supposed to work by creating more riffs when you run out of beats? If you have a long guitar rhythm section, verse, chorus, verse, etc are you supposted to just record one section at a time and then put them together in the Song section? I tried doing this and I get pauses in the different parts becuase I set the "beats' too long and when I stop playing there is dead air until the beat ends. If I set the beat to 8 bars then it's too short. Should I just let it keep looping and will this give me pauses also when I put the sections together in the Song section?

[fooks]

Yes, I meant "beats" I tried setting the beats to 8 and 16 and before I was finished playing it would loop and create another riff. Is this how it is supposed to work by creating more riffs when you run out of beats?

yes

If you have a long guitar rhythm section, verse, chorus, verse, etc are you supposted to just record one section at a time and then put them together in the Song section?

you can do it that way if you want, no problem.

I tried doing this and I get pauses in the different parts becuase I set the "beats' too long and when I stop playing there is dead air until the beat ends. If I set the beat to 8 bars then it's too short. Should I just let it keep looping and will this give me pauses also when I put the sections together in the Song section?

yes the pause will be there, you just make sure you overrun into the next layer before a pause so you can start playing again on that layer. this way your pause will be as long as you want it.

[fooks]

before too long you will get things as loose or as tight as you want.

[lespaulvic]

How do you overrun into the next layer??

[fooks]

just let it loop. play like it is a linear recording.

[fooks]

when you duplicate and string the riffs on the song line they will flow together like you did it in one take.

[lespaulvic]

Okay, so I mute the layers first then start recording and let it keep looping until I'm finished with recording my basic rhythm and then I drag everthing up to the Songs area and then click on the layers button to put a solo over the rhythm. Correct?

[Charvelguy]

Sounds like you'll have to make duplicates of the riff if you kept looping the rhythm while recording. You'll have to choose which layered part you want to keep in each one and then drag those up to the song line so you can punch a solo in over on top of it. I try to number or Alpha them so I know how to arrange the Riff tracks in the songline. Make sense?

[lespaulvic]

Thanks, I'll give that a try. It's just becoming more familiar with the recording process. I was used to just recording and not having to worry about separate riffs.