Originally Posted By: JoanneCooper


Thanks for this Floyd. I have watched a video today on Ableton live which is looped based and now, thanks to you I know what “acidizing” your tracks is... so that the looped based DAW knows what key your sample track is in and how many bpms. It can then “warp” your track to suit the tempo and key of your project. What I don’t understand is whether these types of songs have any chord progression at all or do they all just work around the root? Info is appreciated.


Hi Joanne, if your loop is say a C chord your can change that to a F, D, G etc. What you can not do with it is to have it play say a Cm, or Bb6 etc. It can only play a major chord.

If your loop is a C-F-G7 progression then you can change it to a D-G-A7, G-C-D7, etc but again you can not make anything else but a I-IV-V7 progression.

This differentiates Acid loops from RTs and that is a big difference!


Last edited by MarioD; 04/27/18 10:25 AM.
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