Short music loops are used by many music producers and film editors today in their media projects. Set in a specific tempo and key, music loops are of a single instrument such as a guitar and edited into 1 to 16 measure bits. Alternately, entire orchestrations or rock tracks can be cut into loops. The following advice will assist you in making loops that can be used by yourself or others in media productions.
1. First, determine what sort of loop you want to create before you record or program it into your DAW, better known as a digital audio workstation. You will either create a background loop such as piano chords or a melody such as a guitar riff.
2. Secondly you will need to record a performance that can then be cut into loops. Either use a microphone to capture a studio performance such as a guitar riff or use a software instrument to capture the playing in MIDI.
3. Next, you should be ready to use equalization to cut out any noises that threaten the quality of your sample. For example an excellent vocal loop could be destroyed by the low hum of traffic outside your window. But, you can always fix this problem by notching out the low hertz that are contaminating your otherwise perfect recording.
4. Fourth, apply whatever eq or reverb you are going to use and line up the loop three times to burn your first rough sample. Then, take this rough sample and bounce down only the middle loop which preserves the reverb from start to finish and results in a perfectly seamless loop.
5. Bounce down a finished stereo loop at a 48k sample rate at 24 bits. 48k is highly valued as its ready for use in video editing and 24bit will ensure a high quality thus making the loop more attractive to potential licensees.
The above steps provide a simple but effective outline on the process of creating high quality and sell-able loops from your audio samples for distribution in professional loop libraries. - 15465
1. First, determine what sort of loop you want to create before you record or program it into your DAW, better known as a digital audio workstation. You will either create a background loop such as piano chords or a melody such as a guitar riff.
2. Secondly you will need to record a performance that can then be cut into loops. Either use a microphone to capture a studio performance such as a guitar riff or use a software instrument to capture the playing in MIDI.
3. Next, you should be ready to use equalization to cut out any noises that threaten the quality of your sample. For example an excellent vocal loop could be destroyed by the low hum of traffic outside your window. But, you can always fix this problem by notching out the low hertz that are contaminating your otherwise perfect recording.
4. Fourth, apply whatever eq or reverb you are going to use and line up the loop three times to burn your first rough sample. Then, take this rough sample and bounce down only the middle loop which preserves the reverb from start to finish and results in a perfectly seamless loop.
5. Bounce down a finished stereo loop at a 48k sample rate at 24 bits. 48k is highly valued as its ready for use in video editing and 24bit will ensure a high quality thus making the loop more attractive to potential licensees.
The above steps provide a simple but effective outline on the process of creating high quality and sell-able loops from your audio samples for distribution in professional loop libraries. - 15465
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