non-Acidized Loops and sample accuracy ?

[shagfu]

If I am writing a song that is 100bpm, and I have a non-acidized drum loop that says it is 100bpm; can I plop it into a track and duplicate it to fill up several measures and be sure that there aren't any slight overlaps between each copy?

Or does a drum loop need to be beat-matched/acidized/or whatever in order for it to fit exactly within the bounds of a measure? Or should I assume that the length of the clip doesn't change, just the beats within the clip if the drummer is playing a little loose and not robotic.

I ask because if I import a 100bpm acidized loop into a 100bpm song in HomeStudio2002, and toggle between it's acidized/beat-matched state and a normal audio clip...it looks like the waveform changes slightly.

I ask because I might switch from using HS2002 on my PC to recording using Logic on my iBook. And as far as I've been able to find out, Logic doesn't do beat-matching.

 

[JR#97]

You can trim the beat to be more accurate. I downloaded a bunch of vinyl loops a ways back and had to do that to a few. They were never out of sync, but some were a bit early or late.. but at least they were consistant. I never Acidized any of them.
Another good tool is Steinberg's Recycle. It's a great loop editing program.

 

[TexRoadkill]

It depends if you are just doing a repeat paste end to end or if you are quantizing the start times to the measures. The second method will cover up small differences as long as you don't notice them you are okay. The first method does require sample accurate lengths.