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If i have a loop, weather its vocals or synth or bass how do i change the BPM to fit im my track? Is it just as simple as changing the BPM's so it fits ????
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Is this using hardware or software?

A lot of software will have a timestretching option (like ableton) for each sample/loop.
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pitch shift, timestretch or chop.
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What Jules said. All depends on what sort of sound you want to modify.

Pitch shift will basically speed up the audio clip like on a turntable, altering the tempo and pitch concurrently. The pros and cons of doing this should be obvious.

Timestretch will grab tiny fragments of the clip and repeat them to make a sound go for longer without changing the pitch. It helps to know the tempo of the original clip before stretching to the new tempo. Bear in mind the more timestretch you apply, the more audible the repeats (or artefacts) become.

With drums, it's relatively easy to see where the hits are in the waveform. Get out the old scissor tool and drag them hits around, snapping to the tempo grid of the tune and you should find you have a cleaner, less processed-sounding beat.

What software are you running Fents? Most audio programs should have these options anyway.

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Post by Spherix »

what they said

if its a pad or some shit, vocal etc, and ya wannastrech the sample to fit your tune while preserving the pitch, use this forumla to figure it out how much to stretch:
(length of 1 bar of your tune in seconds) divide by (lenth of sample in
seconds) = ratio x:100 .. you can then use the ratio to set the ammount
of time strech.

you'll find that ratio shit in any wave editors timestretch function

or just make all the sounds urself :P
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^^^ Cheers guys...

That formula is helpfull thanks, and yes i know i shouldnt use loops but in the case of vocals i can see no other way, I have downloaded some accapella biz so i can now bootleg and go down to campberwell market every sun morn and sell tapes. out of my boot :P
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alternately fents you could dump the sample onto cd... then throw it on the dennon.... pitch shift it so that its 175bpm or whatever fits what ur making... then record it back onto yr hard-drive.

dennon has up to +-100 pitch/key shift ;)

i know its a lengthy process but if ya can't work out how to do it on your computer it would still work
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never thought of that, ill have to test it.
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Recycle is made for this, and its dead easy to use.
Open your accappella, slice and trim it into a few bars then enter how many bars or beats it is. If youve done it correctly it will work out the tempo then you can turn on the preview button and speed it up or slow it down without it turing into a chipmunks christmas special. Unless you want to do it within your software....What are you using?
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Ey Fents. If your after anymore accappellas Iv got a few gig of hip hop stuff your welcome too.
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i got like 3 gig of acapellas
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Post by Will »

Ag3nT[]0raNg3 wrote:i got like 3 gig of acapellas
That torrent alone had about 3.5gb.
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ooer, any chance of a PM of the torrent?
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just post it no need to pm it.
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one more medicated peacefull moment
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I got the acapella of "I'm too sexy"... :P
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Nearly on par with the 'C+C Music factory accappella suite'
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