Getting Loops Right Options

[K.G.]

Hi all, again I have a really stupid newbie question. How do you get loops to sync up right. I made a drum beat using the sampler, and then I looped it. However I can't get it to sound right when it loops the beat back. I can get it to either hit to soon or hit to late. Is this just a problem with the orignal loop or can I do something to fix this.

[Synthetic]

yes... you can use the loop feature in Logic to do what you want but... that loop has to be trimmed or scaled to the exact BPM or tempo of Logic or it will drift out of sync with anything else you add to it.

I like to use a good editor for loops to get them exact and so I know what bpm they are before I toss into Logic for looping... so many times I will open loops in Recycle or Peak LE and try to trim the loop so that the first hit is at the absolute beginning of the loop and then give the last hit enough space to make its beat count and then crop it. If it doesn't match the tempo I want, then I will use time stretching to make it fit within minus or plus 10bpm usually.

The whole thing with loops is finding the beats... counting the beats... and then cropping to fit a one bar, two bar etc. region that can be looped without any stutter (unless this is what you desire). Peak LE is great for this. It will allow you to fine tune a looping section of audio before cropping so you know how it will sound looped. Recycle is good too as it wil let you change speed of your loops without changing pitch and its lets you save to many formats.