Originally Posted by Rustyspoon#
"Are you familiar with Mr. Bill?"
I am not, but I've seen similar. I just don't get this concept...
"in more experimental music and genres like low-fi, you are not looking for realism"
RealTracks are about realism smile

If I would be in search for realistic audio loops - that I can make sound unrealistic... It still would make sense to go to Mothership-BIAB and generate something that is useful for a particular composition, instead of using short pre-made snippets.

What I think can be useful for loop/section based DAWs is this: If you get your section way you want it in Trackview (or audio edit, etc.)... select a part and drag it directly to DAW. So instead of the whole track, only selected area will be dragged. That actually would be a neat item for wishlist, perhaps not too hard to implement, and can be useful for other things too, not just for loops.

Understand that the loops I am referring to can be of any length.

That is the beauty of a non-linear DAW.

You can combine a 16-bar loop with an 8-bar loop, some 4-bar loops, some 2-bar loops, and a single-bar loop. Plus, you, can trigger short samples as well.

They can all play at the same time.

I was experimenting with this earlier in Ableton. I created an 8-bar loop and played and then chopped up the loop into snippets using the sampler. I also had the individual tracks to play with.

I can take the same loop and only have Ableton play a small section of that loop, copy it, and play another section. I can also transpose the loop for key changes.

You can do a lot with a longer loop in Ableton. Or a whole song as an audio file or individual tracks.

Last edited by tony10000; 06/21/24 08:54 PM. Reason: fixes
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