Is there a way to search for specific types of loops? -ACID Product Family

Subject:Is there a way to search for specific types of loops? Posted by: smhontz Date:7/28/2003 4:02:23 PM Ok, I'm a very seldom user of Acid (have Acid Pro 4.0), so please be gentle with me. I was looking at Apple's new Soundtrack program, and there is a way to search thru your loops to get, say, all loops with sax in them, or a particular tempo, or what-have-you. Is there something like that in Acid? I have thousands of loops, and I always have to go pawing thru them to find what I want. Is there any embedded information in the files (genre, instruments, etc.) that Acid lets you search on?
Subject:RE: Is there a way to search for specific types of loops? Reply by: Iacobus Date:7/29/2003 12:51:32 PM Not that I know of, but usually the collections lump material together so you know where you're going. (Any Loop type sample will tell you what the original tempo/key of the sample is when you click on it.) A good way to figure out what you want is to actually go through the collections and catalogue them yourself. I imagine the only way the search function in Soundtrack is beneficial only if the info is embedded in the Loop? For example, does it work with Sonic Foundry's loop collections? Iacobus

Subject:Is there a way to search for specific types of loops?

Posted by: smhontz

Date:7/28/2003 4:02:23 PM

Ok, I'm a very seldom user of Acid (have Acid Pro 4.0), so please be gentle with me. I was looking at Apple's new Soundtrack program, and there is a way to search thru your loops to get, say, all loops with sax in them, or a particular tempo, or what-have-you. Is there something like that in Acid? I have thousands of loops, and I always have to go pawing thru them to find what I want. Is there any embedded information in the files (genre, instruments, etc.) that Acid lets you search on?

Subject:RE: Is there a way to search for specific types of loops?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:7/29/2003 12:51:32 PM

Not that I know of, but usually the collections lump material together so you know where you're going. (Any Loop type sample will tell you what the original tempo/key of the sample is when you click on it.)

A good way to figure out what you want is to actually go through the collections and catalogue them yourself.

I imagine the only way the search function in Soundtrack is beneficial only if the info is embedded in the Loop? For example, does it work with Sonic Foundry's loop collections?

Iacobus