Recording off Drum loops

[Paul881]

AlChuck was kind enough to suggest some drum loop sites which I have now visited and chosen my short loop and downloaded it as a WAV file. I have now inserted it into CW8, set up a loop and can jam away to it on guitar - great stuff!

But what I want to do is record over the top of the drum loop. Is there an easier way than going into the Audio view and cutting/pasting/dragging/dropping the drum loop to extend it to the length of my required track?

And thanks again to AlChuck for the previous help.

Paul

 

[AlChuck]

Hmmm... if you had ACID, you could do this easily, and export the resulting track to a WAV file that you could import into Cakewalk. There's a free version of ACID at Sonic Foundry's website (ACID Express, I think) but I'm not sure if this capability is present in that version or not. There is also ACID Music, an intermediate-level package that's fairly inexpensive...

Other than that, or other similar tools, all I can think of is to copy and paste to get double the length, then copy and paste the doubled length to quadruple the length, then copy and paste the quadrupled length, etc., to make it a little speedier. It might also lend itself to a CAL routine, and in fact, one might already be made and be available off the web. Try looking around at http://www.shatterproof.net/cakewalk/files.asp

-- or wait for SONAR, the upgrade to Cakewalk Pro, due in March, which has ACID-like loop manipulation features.

 

[Tabnak]

I like to use drumsamples too, and when I have, say, a one bar loop, I just select it in the track view, look at the end-time of the sample, copy and paste. The paste dialog-box gives me the option to enter the amount of repeats. I'd then just enter a fairly large amount, starting at the end time of the first sample, resulting in a seamless loop.
I am using cakePA9, but version 8 should do that too, right?

greet...

 

[Rhoadz]

tab- yeah CW 8 works like 9 most the changes are under the hood.

yet another way i've made continuous loops from .wav is with fruity loops (free download). it's a bit more round about than w/ acid but its all i had to play with at the timeIf you can get the tempo right just select it as the 'sample', loop and export into a wav or mp3.

gee that was a pointless post, just copy and paste the damn thing.

later

 

[SPINSTERWUN]

Or you could do this...

If you already have FruityLoops or Rebirth, you could sync it to Cake8 (Cake8 as the MASTER).

And then just playfor aslong as you wish.

But, if you don't have either one of those programs you will be better off obtaining Acid 2.0 (especially since you already have you drum tracks and you probably don't feel like reconstructing them ).

SPIN

 

[Paul881]

Many thanks Tabnak. Your info was spot on. I was trying to do it in a much more complicated way. It is so simple I am embarassed at asking the question in the first place.

Hangs head in shame and shuffles off........

 

[Tabnak]

Glad I could help...