new to acid and want to import samples -ACID Product Family

Subject:new to acid and want to import samples Posted by: crazydee Date:4/25/2002 11:24:11 PM i was thinking about getting acid 3.0. I messed around with it on my friend's comp. but i don't really find good drum beats. i do like the beats in fruity loops however. my question is this. can I import sounds and beats from a keyboard (yamaha motif) to acid and arrange them like any other loop. i wanted to use acid more to arrange songs. import beats from fruity loops, sounds from a synth. or would i be better off buying hardware like a sequencer/sampler. I'm just kind of new to producing songs and don't know exactly what to get.
Subject:RE: new to acid and want to import samples Reply by: groovewerx Date:4/26/2002 2:57:37 AM 1. match the tempo of your beat sample to the acid song 2. stop acid and the drum beat 3. press record>start on acid 4. start the beat at the beginning of a bar and let it play for 1 full cycle 5. press stop on acid and the beat 6. clean up the newly recorded beat track's edges 7. set the loop region to the beginning and end of the beat track and solo it 8. tools>render to new now you can paint the beat as loops onto the new new track you've made
Subject:RE: new to acid and want to import samples Reply by: Spirit Date:4/26/2002 12:05:26 PM Constructing drum pattern wavs in Fruity & dropping them into Acid is a super-simple way of operating. I love it. No problems about cutting samples and fiddling with loop points....
Subject:RE: new to acid and want to import samples Reply by: Iacobus Date:4/26/2002 2:23:21 PM You can use ACID like a drum sequencer by holding down CTRL and click/drag with the Paint Tool to paint a whole event or events using percussion One-shots. (You'll have to have a basic knowledge of music theory on note values to get exactly the type of rhythm that you want though.) A lot of drum samples are One-shots rather than Loops. Some collections like the Junkyard Rhythms and Methods of Mayhem loop libraries have One-shots. Still another option, if you have ACID Pro 3.0, is to use the Chopper to rearrange or extract a portion of a percussive/drum loop that you like, making it sound totally different from the original loop. Iacobus

Subject:new to acid and want to import samples

Posted by: crazydee

Date:4/25/2002 11:24:11 PM

i was thinking about getting acid 3.0. I messed around with it on my friend's comp. but i don't really find good drum beats. i do like the beats in fruity loops however. my question is this. can I import sounds and beats from a keyboard (yamaha motif) to acid and arrange them like any other loop. i wanted to use acid more to arrange songs. import beats from fruity loops, sounds from a synth. or would i be better off buying hardware like a sequencer/sampler. I'm just kind of new to producing songs and don't know exactly what to get.

Subject:RE: new to acid and want to import samples

Reply by: groovewerx

Date:4/26/2002 2:57:37 AM

1. match the tempo of your beat sample to the acid song
2. stop acid and the drum beat
3. press record>start on acid
4. start the beat at the beginning of a bar and let it play for 1 full cycle
5. press stop on acid and the beat
6. clean up the newly recorded beat track's edges
7. set the loop region to the beginning and end of the beat track and solo it
8. tools>render to new

now you can paint the beat as loops onto the new new track you've made

Subject:RE: new to acid and want to import samples

Reply by: Spirit

Date:4/26/2002 12:05:26 PM

Constructing drum pattern wavs in Fruity & dropping them into Acid is a super-simple way of operating. I love it. No problems about cutting samples and fiddling with loop points....

Subject:RE: new to acid and want to import samples

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:4/26/2002 2:23:21 PM

You can use ACID like a drum sequencer by holding down CTRL and click/drag with the Paint Tool to paint a whole event or events using percussion One-shots. (You'll have to have a basic knowledge of music theory on note values to get exactly the type of rhythm that you want though.)

A lot of drum samples are One-shots rather than Loops. Some collections like the Junkyard Rhythms and Methods of Mayhem loop libraries have One-shots.

Still another option, if you have ACID Pro 3.0, is to use the Chopper to rearrange or extract a portion of a percussive/drum loop that you like, making it sound totally different from the original loop.

Iacobus