Difference between 'Loop' and 'Cycle'

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bobbyrullo
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Difference between 'Loop' and 'Cycle'

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I'm a bit confused exactly what the difference between Loop and Cycle. Specifically, what does it mean to quantize to Loop vs. Cycle? And what do you mean by "... cycle of a current loop, or a potential loop..." - does this mean that if you are quantizing to cycle all loops are the same length?

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Re: Difference between 'Loop' and 'Cycle'

Post by jesse »

Put simply, the length of fresh Recorded loop becomes the cycle length. If you then Multiply on that loop, and keep going for multiple cycles, then the loop length is the total of however many cycles you end up with. So you can choose to quantize on either one. Quantizing on cycle means the operations will start/end on a cycle boundary (or with cycle-length multiple in the case of 'rel sync' on record), it doesn't limit the length.
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