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Could you pls advise?

I have some loops libraries which I bought online. However, I have trouble using these loops libraries in BIAB.

I try to generate the style and then play, but the loops do not change according to the chords.

It seems the problem is BIAB cannot recognize any info from my loops, including the root notes.

Is that why the loops will not change according to the chords? Is there anything I can do?

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I have tried several things in the night, but was too tired to report my findings.

You can change the key of the loop as soon as you have a valid text-file like this one here for example: Funk - gl_funk100q ev16_AcidInfo.txt

I haven't looked too intensively to find information about them. But, all files provided by PGMusic have it and my other loop files didn't. So I created one -- I copied one and changed the data I knew were different. Then the key changed according to the preset in the BIAB music file.

There was a bit of trial and error to have it sounding the way I intended, but I did get it to work.


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Yep, got to pour some acid on it. smile


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Originally Posted By: fantasyvn
. .I try to generate the style and then play, but the loops do not change according to the chords.

It seems the problem is BIAB cannot recognize any info from my loops, including the root notes.


If you didn't buy Acid Loops then BB will have nothing to read so you need to fill in the blanks manually in the loop picker window.


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I'm sure I have acid loop packages, which I bought online. But somehow they do not work in BIAB.

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Originally Posted By: fantasyvn
I'm sure I have acid loop packages, which I bought online. But somehow they do not work in BIAB.

Can you name the product and the loops? This might help others to identify if they are acidized.


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By chance, I did something else, I found how to acidize .wav files:
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Acidize this .WAV file


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Yes, we can acidize song files in RB when exporting, but if the external files are not acidized in the first place, how can we get the chords from them, which I think is what the O/P was looking for?


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There is still something we need to do ourselves. I don't see how a computer software can identify a root note in a loop that may not even contain this certain root note.

I'm positive that computer software can identify the root note of an entire song. It even might recognize a key change. But I doubt it to be 100 percent of all cases.

A good example is the theme of the C Jam Blues. What is the root note of that theme? It fits many keys. You only have the melody to figure out. You have the 12 different keys made from the only seven notes there are, as your music teacher once said smile. Then we have the seven modes.

Now comes the fun part. When you play the C Jam Blues theme, you remain on the same notes for the entire song, not minding that the accompaniment plays other chords. What would a software do, when you go from I to IV and V?


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This might save a lot of frustration:
http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=233035

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Easy quick way of dropping loops to RB until we get a drag n drop loop selection window. You can do half/Double time etc.

Rubber Band Audio Processor

It uses the same engine as BeatCleaver

RubberBand with Realband.MP4
RubberBand with Realband.WMV




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