Drum Looping

[ianthemac]

Hi
I'm new to Riff Works and am enjoying playing around with it.
The thing I am having problems with is the end of songs. Some of the drum parts have an Ending break which is great. Trouble is I want to play over them and then let a guitar part ring once the drum's finished. Is there any way of either stopping the drum looping (so I can set a 6 bar riff knowing the drum ending is only 4 bars long & giving me 2 bars of quiet) or else a way of dropping the drums to silence (as you can by drawing dynamics onto the Info window of riffs)?
Am I missing something or is this just not an easy thing to do with this programme?
Thanks for any help and hope I'm not asking something brain numbingly obvious
Cheers
Ian

[fooks]

yes you can do it!

hi ianthemac, just play over the drum parts the way you want. record the guitar and ignore the drums! lol coz you will take them out when you duplicate the riff and then arrange them so that, layer 1 is playing with the drums and then the next riff, layer 2 is playing while layer 1 was deleted or muted, then for that riff you just unclick the instant drummer! guitar only! ta daaaaa!

i hope i am clear enough for you.
there is another way also.

that would be to "mix to riff" the drums with a few extra bars, then you can use the info thing.
try both ways.

good luck!

[cwight]

Just set the riff length to say the 4 bars of drums then do a 2 bar riff with your guitar, but no drums....hope this makes sense....

[ianthemac]

Thanks for those tips - I think the Mix to Riff is the one which will work for me (maybe it's just simple enough for me to understand). That way I can just create a full length varied drum part of a number of chunks with a couple of bars of silence at the end, mix to riff and then record over that without any looping.
Look forward to giving it a try.
All the best
Ian