Sample Editing

In class on Friday, the main project that I worked on was continuing to edit the ukulele samples.  I moved each sample to its own file, and then transported them over to one of the MacBooks in order to use Loop Editor to set them up as full samples which could be used in NN-XT.  However, It turns out that ukulele samples are particularly hard to find a good loop for, and I am not convinced that it can be done.  Since the wave is constantly decaying over time, the start and end points of any loop need to be fairly close together, so that the amplitude does not change noticeably, and the actual shape of the wave is in constant change due to the decay, meaning that it can be very hard to find a loop where there is not a significant difference in the shape at one end of the loop and the other.  It's now Saturday, and I am about to try again to get these loops to work.  I will see if i can find some which sound decent, and then take one or two test samples over to NN-XT to see how the whole sample sounds, since Loop Editor only plays back the one loop you have selected.  If I cannot find a way to make them have loops which sound ok to me, I may just decide to not include loops in these samples.