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mda_analog
tranceaddict in training
Registered: Aug 2006
Location: Montreal, Canada
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Why cut loops?
"That said, why should I need a program for the specific purpose of singling out a loop when I already have acid/abelton? That's the only question I have. I might get the demo, but only for that loop mangler thing that comes free."
Because you already need a valid loop to begin with before you use loops in Ableton. Someone has to have cut the loop beforehand, unless you manually set start and endpoints in the clip editor, which is hardly an elegant solution. Yes, you can just throw in any old sample and Ableton will loop it, but if it is a rhythm loop, it has to start "on the beat", be the correct number of beats, and be the correct length, or else it won't mix in properly to your production.
Being a producer myself, I found I was spending far too much time on mundane / boring cutting with SoundForge and realized there should be a tool to streamline this process. This is definitely a niche tool and is not for everyone... and that's why there's a demo version 
Oh, and by the way, I DO NOT advocate stealing. But I DO advocate sampling material and processing so that the finished product sounds nothing like the source sound... and you can use it for remixing when you don't have the original track sources.
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Aug-23-2006 18:21
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thoughtlessjex
Yakkity Yak

Registered: May 2004
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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quote: | Originally posted by IKKI-ZUVK
Freaking assholes... give the guy some credit! Yes, you guys freaking rock... Using Ableton, and stuff... congrats... you've won a cookie!!
People like him are the ones, who someday would probably make something as big as Ableton. We all have to start from the bottom up
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Then start with "Hello, World." That one may be just as useless, but at least it's endlessly entertaining.
Seriously though, I recognize the difficulty in creating a program of any difficulty above the first year level. But that doesn't mean that the hardest work of any programmer can't create something that I have no use for. Just because he's starting out doesn't mean he should be babied and cooed over. If it weren't for criticism, nothing in the world would get better. So While I'm encouraging him to make programs that are more useful (like that loopmangler plugin--in fact, I could think of some ways it might be made better, but maybe later), you're telling him inutile programs are perfectly acceptable, and essentially to keep on making pointless garbage. Who's being more useful to him in the long run?
And yes, when he makes a program as big as Ableton, I will appreciate that. But he's not doing that yet.
So put that bleeding heart away, and save it for someone who actually has ill-will towards someone.
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www.jexmusic.com - My website
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Aug-25-2006 20:38
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