hollandturbine
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Am I supposed to do this over a long stretch of the song? I find that when I do it this way I always a little bit off.
Two things determine the result, your sense of rhythm when timing and any variation in tempo over the duration of the song, like it's not impossible for each bar in a song to be a different tempo in which case I would recommend only timing the duration you intend to use.
What the hell is this jargon??? If you are musically inclined, a 1 bar loop at whatever tempo is not difficult to achieve by ear, and even easier when analyzing the waveform. And even BEFORE being able to see waveforms DJ's used to loop breakbeats with two turntables of the same two records before there was even any "loop" function, and that was all be ear
Yeah as an old school DJ with an acute sense of rhythm I can loop shit on my turntables in a multitude of ways, transforming, string on the tone arm, a sticker on the record, I can even reverse the head shell adjust the counter weight sit the record on a roll of duct tape and play some upside down backwards loops, and I can also tell that the guys who made the Drum Crazy series of break beat records didn't know jack shit about how to make a loop properly because I can hear that shit skewing all over the place....but none of that needs to be on point in order to work so long as you can ignore the skewing and drifting or make unnoticeable adjustments to the timing.
It's quite simple dude....BPM and loop length go hand in hand, so if you rough cut a loop by ear chances are that shit will be wrong even if you can't tell, like if you only use fake loops you might not see much advantage unless you have issues related to time stretching, but if you know how to make proper loops there are no such issues and you can trigger them in repetition or have them play autonomously without drifting.
I'm not surprised to see this, because i have seen it on here before... If you have to go through ALL this to make a loop, than you don't need to be making music. How this does not affect your workflow is a mystery to me
All what? this is some basic shit man and yeah, my workflow is extremely fast because I already know the loop length before I even hit my starting point, basically I don't waste any time adjusting the back end of my loop and in all honesty it probably takes me no more than about 10 seconds to make a perfect loop and that's including the math.
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