DS not picking up embedded #loop points

Question

Hello there,

For some reason Decent Sampler won't pick up the #loop markers in my .wav files when I work on them in Audition! They seem to work fine if I do them in REAPER, but I'm having issues with zero crossings in reaper, so have been using Audition. I also find editing the loop points easier in Audition.

You would think there was a standard for embedding this info in a file, but apparently not!

I presume this is a quirk of Audition, rather than DS, but is there a way that DS could be more accommodating of such idiosyncrasies?

Answer 1

Thanks so much Sid_B over on the Pianobook Discord Server for helping me work this out. It looks like it was an issue with how Audition saves the cues/regions. I haven't completely solved it yet, but it seems I can get it to work if I leave a 'tail' outside the region at the end of the file.

I've actually ended up using Polyphone (which Sid_B recommended) to do my loop points, since it's auto loop feature actually seems to work fairly well. It's actually a soundfont creator, but you can use the sample editing utilities within it and re-export to .wav files.

Also worked out the issue with zero crossings in REAPER. It occurs when you tune (rather than using David's method of stretching, which works fine) and then split an item. Presumably some kind of resampling is occurring, which shifts the actual zero crossing but isn't always visible in the displayed waveform because of the non-destructive way REAPER works. Why this should be different with the stretching method, I have no idea!

Thanks again to Sid_B for his help!!