10 Dec
2002
10 Dec
'02
7:25 p.m.
That's why they put out the "loops for acid' libraries, which I have used
to good effect with terminatorX. tX already has beatmatching, you just
don't sequence loops with it, but rather load multiple loops which you can
trigger against each other. One track is set as the master and all the
others get their tempo tweaked to match it. So when I use the loops for
acid it works very well, cause the files are cut to match up already.
http://www.brianredfern.org
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Mark Knecht wrote:
Jesse,
It is, to the best of my knowledge, a misnomer that is flowing around in
this thread that Acid time-stretches anything in real time. I do not know
that to be the case at all, but also admit that I haven't tried to do it.
My use of Acid has focused on the use of specific samples at the speed
they were recorded at. If the drum library loops were 145BPM, my song will
be at 145BPM. I think the likelihood of time-stretching a sample and having
it be sonically interesting is pretty minimal, but I'll happily respond to
the application that does it first! ;-)
Acid does have 'Beat Mapper'. Most of us gave up depending on it a while
ago. It's a misnomer that you can use it on too much recorded material as
real musicians vary their tempo by miniscule amounts anyway, so it isn't
constant enough to depend on for that. It can be helpful in grabbing a
specific section of a song and helping you cut a loop out of it, but I
typically don't have the patience to do that on a regular basis when I can
by a loop library that has 500 loops for $50.
I don't know which one of you, yourself or Steve, is smarter, but I'm in
awe of both of you, as well as about a dozen others here.
Cheers,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Chappell [mailto:jesse@essej.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:57 PM
To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu; Mark Knecht
Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] Acid for Linux ? - Pitch shift
Mark Knecht wrote on Tue, 10-Dec-2002:
Acid has the ability to shift samples by known
amounts, so that if I have
a
bass line in C, I can shift it up a major 4th to
F and it will fit into
the
sound quite easily. This function in Acid works
pretty well over a
limited
range, say +/- a major 6th, but starts to fall
apart pretty badly at an
octave, in my experience. (It depends a lot on the library.)
Until this morning I hadn't considered using freqtweak to accomplish the
same thing. Today I would have to take an input wave file for the base
line,
then shift it appropriately and write it back to
disk as a separate wave
file, using more disk space and creating more problems at the app level
dealing with yet another wave file to be read and played back.
This already exists in the form of Steve Harris's "pitch scaler"
LADSPA plugins. In fact, the algorithm used in freqtweak is based
on the one in Steve's (ripped right out of there in fact).
Time-stretching is a showstopper for LADSPA however since
#samples must equal #samples out..... I think this has been
discussed before....
jlc