Acid Loops

[Brian_SG]

I'm wondering if anyone can give me some help regarding acid loops. Whenever I try to use them at a different tempo than what they are recorded at they get distorted. Any idea on how to fix this?

 

[legionserial]

Do you mean if you use a drastically different tempo or or does it do it with even the smallest difference?

 

[e-man]

it's been my experience that the sound engine in acid (at least in ver.3 that i have, pro may be better) can only time stretch about 10-15 bpm higher or lower than the original bpm of the loop without getting artifacts that mess up the sound.

it ususally depends on the loop sound. acoustic instrument sounds suffer the most to me. synths can fare better but again it depends on the sound.

hth

later...

 

[Brian_SG]

Very small changes, around 10 BPM or more. I'm not using Sony's Acid though, i'm just using acid format loops for drum tracks.

 

[Schmange]

You'd be better off using Rex files and getting a copy of ReCycle.

 

[legionserial]

I used to use acid, all of the loops I used seemed to be able to take drastic changes in tempo without too many artifacts. However if you slowed them way way down, you would obviously get artifacts in the sound, but it took a fair bit of slowing.. It's unavoidable eventually.

What sample rate are the loops recorded at? Have the audio files been compressed at all? I don't mean audio compression, I mean compressing the file size.