Working with drum loops etc..
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Posted on Apr 24, 2013 09:02 pm
Bluesdues
Member Since: Apr 26, 2006
I was looking at some drum loops at The loop loft. I see that they offer them in several formats( WAV, AIFF, REX2 and Stylus RMX ). I am using a mac with Studio One 2. Is there a up or a down side in the choice of these formats?
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Apr 25, 2013 02:16 pm I am not much of a loop user personally, but one thing that you may want to pay attention to is how they stretch and shrink to fit your needed BPM...kind of like resizing a digital image, it can have adverse effects, and some formats handle it better than others.
J-botByte-MixerMember
Since: Dec 04, 2007
Apr 25, 2013 11:22 pm Yeah, sometimes loops handle stretching better or worse depending on the BPM of the original.
As for the actual formats, I think REX2 is something like an inter-daw format (a project recorded in reaper and saved as a rex file can be imported into another daw that supports rex, and worked on there provided both DAWs have the same plug-ins that were used in the project)
Stylus RMX is basically a specific VST program.
WAV/AIFF are your typical audio files we all know and love.
I don't know if the REX format would have more information that would work for fitting it to the BPM of your projects or not. I'm not sure if there is like a pitch preservation algorithm used to preserve the audio while stretching the time or not.
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Apr 30, 2013 06:33 am midi drums is a better option if ya wanna change temp. i guess depends on how much ya wanna spend
May 21, 2013 08:18 pm Thanks for the views/info, since I have Addictive drums and EZdrummer I suppose it would make sense to look at midi drums. I guess I can't get around sitting down and learning to use drum software.
