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Chapter 36: Region Loops and Groups 739
Chapter 36: Region Loops and Groups
Region Looping
Pro Tools lets you loop audio regions, MIDI re-
gions, and region groups. Looping regions is an
easy and powerful way to repeat a single region
on a track or regions across tracks for composing
and arranging. Looping regions provides more
flexibility than the Repeat and Duplicate com-
mands.
Looped regions repeat the source region as
many times as specified in the Region Looping
dialog, or enough to fill the specified Loop
Length (such as 30 seconds or until the next re-
gion on the track). The source region is the origi-
nal region selected for looping. Loop iterations
are all looped regions following the source re-
gion. In cases where a specific number of repeti-
tions has not been indicated, the last loop itera-
tion is truncated to fill to the end of the
selection or specified Loop Length.
Once looped, the looped region can be edited
much like a region group. For example, selecting
and moving a looped region selects and moves
the source region and all its loop iterations to-
gether.
Looped regions (all iterations) display a Loop
icon in the lower, right corner or each loop iter-
ation.
Looped region
Looping a region does not loop any automa-
tion associated with the source region. Use
the Copy Special and Paste Special Repeat
To Fill Selection commands to copy auto-
mation for the source loop to all loop itera-
tions (see “Automation and Looped Re-
gions” on page 742).
Loop icons
Source region Loop iterations
Looped region