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The magazine for producers, engineers & recording musicians | 17 May 2012


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Cubase 4.1 Workshop - Beat Matching

If you’re looking to incorporate your own loops or audio material into a project, you’ll find it’s simply a matter of time... Hollin Jones stretches Cubase to the limit.



Samples collections now come in multiple formats, such as Apple Loops, REX fi les and ACIDized WAVs. The advantages that these formats have over regular audio fi les is that they are able to a great extent to automatically alter their tempo to fit with the tempo of a project you are working on. Broadly, they work by slicing the audio fi le in some way  and then altering the relative distance between the slices – decreasing it to go faster and increasing it to slow down the loop. But other samples, especially older ones or audio that you have recorded yourself, tend to be much more conventional in that if you change the tempo of a project, the fi les will remain the same length. Equally, if you import such an audio fi le into a project, it may well
not fit at first.

This feature first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 68
Filed under Software Workshops, Features

 

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