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Re: Introduction and 'Instant music' software



hi

try Acid from SOnic Foundry. It allows you to automatically allign loops
with different BPMs. But not only...
what's this DDClip?

ciao
leo


At 22.25 10/02/99 PST, you wrote:
>Hi Loopers,
>
>I live in Perth, Western Australia and create loop based music at home 
>on my PC.  At the moment I'm using the freeware version of DDClip which 
>gives four stereo tracks of ausio and allows me to sequence WAV files 
>from my hard drive and it mixes and plays them back in real time.
>
>I was reading Computer Music magazine the other day and it had a small 
>feature on 'instant music' CD-ROM's.  You now the type - Dance Music 
>e-jay software.  A CD-ROM with a with a custom interface thousand or so 
>dance music samples that lets you put all the loops together and make a 
>dance track.  If you've never tried one - give it a go as they are a lot 
>of fun.  
>
>I tried out a program called Hip Hop eJay and found that it was quite 
>similar to the way I am making music with DDClip.  Most of the loops for 
>HHejay were ten seconds long exacly.  Others were 5 seconds so you could 
>for example have a ten second bassline loop and then have a 
>complementary 5 seconf loop on another track come in on the start or the 
>second half of the loop.  Anyway, my question is, how would I go about 
>creating a set of loops like that.  Would I have to create separate 
>libraries of basslines and beats according to BPM?  How would I create 
>loops of different BPM in loops that are exactly ten seconds anyway?
>
>Thanks,
>Pixiepuck
>
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