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I have a set of very well cut loops and but there are several loops where it is just reading the wrong BPM (and it's doing this in 1.5 on a PC and 2.03 on OS X).

It just reads the BPM at whatever I have the BPM set to in Live and it is wrong and is not in sync. Anyway. I try to change the BPM to what the true original BPM is and nothing happens. It won't let me change it, it just goes back to whatever it read it as. I've spent about 40 minutes looking through the manuals and it is driving me crazy.

What am I doing wrong?

Also, these loops have all be "acidized." Does Live not read this type of information? Does it read Rex information?

Please help.

Quint Randle

have you tried locking the warp markers in place?

Neil

Okay, that seemed to help. It worked on a couple of them. But when I think I've figured out how to do it, there is no rhyme or reason. The third one I tried it just keeps going back to the BPM I pulled it in at, or to -1. It won't let me do anything.

What is the exact order I should do this in? There doesn't seem to be anything in the manual. And this is sort of a basic problem.

Quint

OK, I know this one... if the bpm is set to -1, then you need to click where it says loop. Otherwise it's assumed that because the sample is really long, then it's a one shot.

I've been having similar problems, although I only got my copy of live this morning, so I'm hoping it will eventually become clearer. I was loading a whole track one loop at a time from Reason and found it pretty frustrating that all the loops were 138 BPM, but Live was comming up with 120's 109's, all over the shop, because a lot of the samples like bass lines use tripleted gating effects. I guess it's not a problem if you're writting straight Trance., ho ho.

Having some way of being able to say "Just assume the sample is 138 bpm until I tell you otherwise" would have been nice.

Having some way of being able to say "Just assume the sample is 138 bpm until I tell you otherwise" would have been nice

Ues indeed - I hope this comes to pass.

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