Short music loops are used by many music producers and film editors today in their media projects. Set in a specific tempo and key, music loops are of a single instrument such as a guitar and edited into 1 to 16 measure bits. Alternately, entire orchestrations or rock tracks can be cut into loops. The following advice will assist you in making loops that can be used by yourself or others in media productions.
1. First, you will want to decide on the type of loop you'd like to create before recording it into your digital audio workstation. You will either want to create a melody loop such as a piano line, or a backing loop such as a guitar strum.
2. Second, either record or program the loop material. Use a virtual instrument to record a performance in MIDI or record with a microphone.
3. Next, you should be ready to use equalization to cut out any noises that threaten the quality of your sample. For example an excellent vocal loop could be destroyed by the low hum of traffic outside your window. But, you can always fix this problem by notching out the low hertz that are contaminating your otherwise perfect recording.
4. Fourth, apply whatever eq or reverb you are going to use and line up the loop three times to burn your first rough sample. Then, take this rough sample and bounce down only the middle loop which preserves the reverb from start to finish and results in a perfectly seamless loop.
5. For video editing purposes, create a loop with a 48k 24bit sample and bit rate in stereo. Libraries and individuals who license your loops with value this format over all other since 48k is ready for use in video editing.
With a little knowledge of audio editing, simply follow the above advice to transform your audio samples into professional quality sound effects for licensing in media productions. - 16747
1. First, you will want to decide on the type of loop you'd like to create before recording it into your digital audio workstation. You will either want to create a melody loop such as a piano line, or a backing loop such as a guitar strum.
2. Second, either record or program the loop material. Use a virtual instrument to record a performance in MIDI or record with a microphone.
3. Next, you should be ready to use equalization to cut out any noises that threaten the quality of your sample. For example an excellent vocal loop could be destroyed by the low hum of traffic outside your window. But, you can always fix this problem by notching out the low hertz that are contaminating your otherwise perfect recording.
4. Fourth, apply whatever eq or reverb you are going to use and line up the loop three times to burn your first rough sample. Then, take this rough sample and bounce down only the middle loop which preserves the reverb from start to finish and results in a perfectly seamless loop.
5. For video editing purposes, create a loop with a 48k 24bit sample and bit rate in stereo. Libraries and individuals who license your loops with value this format over all other since 48k is ready for use in video editing.
With a little knowledge of audio editing, simply follow the above advice to transform your audio samples into professional quality sound effects for licensing in media productions. - 16747
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