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Hi, I just created a Youtube video which can be found at this link to ( help members use RealBand to create an acid loop) and to ( help members use this acid loop in BIAB as a full chorus user loop of their playing when BIAB can't generate tracks that fit the bill). The video is actually for members of my jam group (some of which do not even have BIAB or are very green at it) but others can benefit from it too so figured I would post the link here and in the other thread I created asking about User Tracks which ultimately could not do what I wanted. Besides the members of this forum are great and I figured I should give back. It took me 6 days to figure this out partly because of a bug in BIAB so it could be a big time saver for some BIAB and RealBand new comers like myself if they happen to land on this post. Ironically the bug in BIAB might have helped me since I don't think it is capable of creating an acid loop and I might have concluded my objective is not possible (that would be a drag). That leads to the question below? What is an acid loop versus other loops and why? Am I correct in thinking there is something about it that allows speed changes and key changes? If so I am curious how this works. Might anyone know? I read what "Acid" means somewhere. I think it might have been in the RealBand PDF manual but I don't think it explained anything about it. I think the D might mean digitized. I am wondering if there is a wiki on this topic. Thanks, John Bowles
Last edited by bowlesj; 12/13/18 03:51 AM.
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Yeah, you pretty much got it right.
ACID (or Acidized) loops have tempo and key information embedded, which has both advantages and (potential) drawbacks.
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John,
Looks like you got Acidized Loops well in hand. Just a FYI, Band-in-a-Box can't create an Acid Loop but it can import them or the Apple equivalent Apple Loop.
During the import audio file dialog if the audio file contains Acid or Apple loop data the dialog will offer to match the project tempo to the loop tempo.
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Thanks Jim,
so if I understand you correctly #1(importing an acid loop) sounds like it has an option which is the opposite of #2(choosing to insert an acid loop into a BIAB song as one of the tracks). The the case of #2 (which is all I have done) it seems to adjust the loop tempo to match the song tempo. Adjusting the loop tempo to match the song tempo is probably all I would ever do. However I can't say never :-)
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