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Loops

  • Escaping loop hell: from an 8-bar loop to a full song

    To turn a loop into a song, decide on sections (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, outro), copy the loop across a full song length, then take parts away so each section sounds different. The traditional way is the subtractive arrangement method Ableton's Making Music describes; the AI-assisted way plans the sections and builds them with dropouts and variation you can edit. Both, side by side.

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  • Loops vs samples vs one-shots: the building blocks, explained

    A sample is any piece of recorded sound you use in a track. A one-shot is a sample of a single hit, such as one kick or one chord stab, that you trigger yourself. A loop is a sample of a performance, often a few bars long, edited to repeat seamlessly. Know which you are holding and you know how to use it, and an AI DAW can now find either from a sentence.

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