Looping clips of different lengths

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marra
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Looping clips of different lengths

Post by marra » Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:34 am

Hey!

Say I have one audio clip that's 1.1.0 in length and one that's 0.2.1 (both are 95 BPM) - how do I get these to loop perfectly? They do loop perfectly for the first few seconds but after a while they go out of sync and start sounding horrible.

Do I need to do some mathematics to figure out how long either one or both of these audio clips should be?

Thanks!

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Re: Looping clips of different lengths

Post by markmakingmusic » Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:24 pm

Do you know what the 3 numbers stand for? Ableton manual.

Do you know about basic rhythmic subdivision? Google it :)

They aren't lining up because you have an extra .1 on the end of your 0.2.1 which means an extra sixteenth note (4 of those in one beat, 4 beats in one measure).

So yea, get rid of that extra sixteenth note and you should be golden.
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Hermanus
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Re: Looping clips of different lengths

Post by Hermanus » Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:34 pm

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=165717

Frankly reposting another new topic is a bit silly.
Keep on with your first one.

Your link is broken, update it and upload.

+1000 to markmakingmusic... use your brain and calculate.

No offense, we just try to help you

marra
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Re: Looping clips of different lengths

Post by marra » Fri Jun 24, 2011 3:01 am

+1000 to markmakingmusic :lol:

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Re: Looping clips of different lengths

Post by Hermanus » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:22 pm

I've just answered on the other topic
and http://www.mediafire.com/?5b81s4kmak922rq

Just in case :lol:

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Re: Looping clips of different lengths

Post by marra » Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:58 pm

Thanks man but not quite there. I'll show you what I mean in a sec.

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