Acidized looping is a nice way to add other sounds and textures to the palatte as you so nicely put it. I used Loops for a long time in AcidPro. I did find them to be much like RTs in that they can get repetitive quickly. They do however give a lot of options, and there seems to be no end to the availbility of them. I did write a tutorial on how to make them in Cakewalk a few years back. As well as how to in Acid, which has the render to looped region feature.

Before BiaB i would make looped tracks to save on making mistakes. I can play a strummed guitar track, but as we all know there is going to be a finger flub or such somewhere.

So what i did was take a program like cakewalk MC5, and open it set the tempo, and arm a track strum or pick about three or four bars then go back and listen to it, looking for one bar that was perfect. set the loop markers to the beginning and end of the bar, and loop the bar fine tuning the lopped area until it played and sounded like a continuos thing, then save that as a groove clip. then do the same thing for each chord in the song. Then once all saved in a floder, just drag them into place where you want to build the song and them export the track as a wave file and import into any thing you want.

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