Subject:beatmapper and remixing songs

Posted by: Neth

Date:9/9/2002 10:46:12 PM

hey i need help.

I'm a newbie on Acid (3.0, not 4.0), but i've made a few pretty good songs.
Now i'm going for a remix of an old song.
I use the beatmapper and the song should apparently sound good and in sync with most of whatever i throw in ther with it, but as soon as i put the most basic of beats in, it sounds totaly out of whack with the song. What do i do? how do i make it work? i'd be gratefull for any help.

Subject:RE: beatmapper and remixing songs

Reply by: gmay

Date:9/10/2002 3:59:26 AM

If the song you are loading in is played by a live drummer then the Beatmapper is not much good. You'll probably have to take the sample and cut it or stretch it. In fact suggestions on getting out of time samples quantized would be of great use to me also.

Subject:RE: beatmapper and remixing songs

Reply by: TeeCee

Date:9/10/2002 10:01:17 AM

You need to chop the original in to loops and pull them in as such.

TeeCee

Subject:RE: beatmapper and remixing songs

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:9/10/2002 2:30:09 PM

Might want to check out Joel's excellent post on using the Beatmapper with tempo changes. SoFo should really post this in their KB base as it's a really good bit of info to know.

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: beatmapper and remixing songs

Reply by: TeeCee

Date:9/10/2002 2:42:42 PM

Joel's method will work if you mainly want to work wih the original song the way it's laid out. It will also add an extra layer of digital processing to the file. And you'll be working at the wave level in Acid rather than Sound Forge.

TeeCee