Creating My Own Loops in ACID

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I'm not a professional musician; or a musician in any right. I'm just a very old school guy who likes messing around with ACID 4.0 and coming up with interesting tunes. It's more of a hobby than anything else, but as I've gotten into it more and more, I find myself wishing that I had more control over the loops themselves, which leads to the question...

I'd like to be able to create my own loops. The Chopper in ACID is a bit of a help, as well as the ACID tools in Sound Forge, but the results aren't nearly as original as I'd like. I don't own any musical instruments, so at the risk of sounding incredibly stupid, is there a product that will let me reproduce various instrument sounds, and then manipulate those sounds into useable loops?

Thanks in advance.
 
You can use ACID to make additional loops. If you need source material, go to KVRaudio.com and download some freeware/shareware VSTi's. If you're looking for instrument sounds, look for samplers and soundfont players, or specifically for the emulations of instruments you want. You may have to scour the net for samples. Add a bunch of those VSTi's into your project and use a MIDI controller or the piano roll in ACID to play parts. Render that to a wav file. It's nice since you can use the "lock to grid" feature (F8) so that your parts can end at the end of a measure. After rendering, you'll have perfect measures for your project.

I haven't used Sound Forge's ACIDizing features, but it comes with plenty of effects to screw with files. Keep stacking effects using the plug in chainer and you'll no doubt come up with something interesting. You could make things interesting or rhythmic by only highlighting certain parts of your loop while using the effects. You can take that even further using the Chopper in ACID on those twisted files. ACID's envelope automation can go a decent way toward making loops personal too.

Good luck.
-marcus
 
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