Make loops and beats online

How to make a loop-based track

You can go from an empty session to an exported beat in a few minutes.

1. Click Open the loop library. Auditius opens the Multitrack view with the Loops tab of the Organizer.
2. Set the session tempo with Options ▸ Session Properties (Tempo)…
3. Preview a loop with its play button, then drag it onto a track, or click + to add it to the selected track at the cursor.
4. Drag the right edge of a block to repeat the loop for as many bars as you need. Options ▸ Snap to Grid keeps everything on the beat.
5. Add tracks with Edit ▸ Insert Track (Ctrl+T) and layer drums, percussion, bass and synths.
6. Balance the tracks with their volume and pan knobs, and add effects to a track, a bus or the master.
7. Export with File ▸ Export Mixdown… as WAV, FLAC, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, or keep the project with File ▸ Save Session…

What is in the loop library

The loops are synthesized by Auditius itself and always follow the session tempo. They are royalty-free: use them in your own tracks, including commercial releases, without credit or payment. You also find them under Generate ▸ Loop Library. To hear them in context first, File ▸ Load Demo Session opens an arrangement built from them.

• Drums: house, breakbeat, boom bap, trap hats, rock beat, tom fill and drum & bass.
• Percussion: a 16th-note shaker, claps on 2 and 4, and a rim clave.
• Bass: octave bass, funky bass, sub pulse and an acid line.
• Synth: a four-chord pad, a minor arpeggio, pluck chords and house stabs.

Use your own sounds as loops

Open your sample with File ▸ Open…, right-click it in the Files tab of the Organizer and choose Insert into Multitrack.

To make it follow the tempo, set its original tempo with File Tempo… in the same menu (Guess from length works for loops of whole 4/4 bars), then turn on Follow Session Tempo in the block’s right-click menu. Turn on Loop Enabled there too, or press L, and drag the right edge to repeat it.

To cut a clean loop from a longer recording, select exactly one or more bars in the Edit Waveform view, apply Edit ▸ Adjust Selection to Zero Crossings, listen with Options ▸ Loop Mode (Ctrl+L) and save it with File ▸ Save Selection…

Make it sound finished

Once the loops are in place, the mixing tools turn a sketch into a track.

• Volume and pan envelopes (View ▸ Volume Envelopes and View ▸ Pan Envelopes) shape single blocks for build-ups, drops and fades.
• Automation lanes, opened with the A button on a track, move volume, pan and effect settings over time.
• Buses and sends let several tracks share one reverb or compressor.
• Edit ▸ Master Effects… adds EQ, compression or other effects to the whole mix.
• Options ▸ Tempo Map… adds tempo and time-signature changes at any bar.
• Arm a track and record vocals or an instrument over the loop. With loop playback on, every pass is kept as a separate take.