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Subject:can someone from LA or orange county help me out with acid Posted by: BeatsBySelf Date:1/7/2004 11:30:01 AM ive been using acid 4 about six months now and i still cant figure out a few things for example when i have 2 seperate vocal samples one thats three secs the other 4 secs how would i match them to go with my beat (id like to stretch them both to 6 secs and have them both perserve the same pitch) id also like to learn a simpler way to match beats with lyrics for now i just find a beat and a vocal track and lay them both out and adjust the vocals by chopping/slicing till it sounds right if u are from anywhere near longbeach/riverside ca let me know maybe we could meet one day and u could help me out an i'll pay u for ur time thanks u guys are awsome BeatsBySelf@hotmail.com AIM: SelfEvidenT90210
Subject:RE: can someone from LA or orange county help me out with acid Reply by: marcarotsky Date:1/7/2004 4:21:13 PM im not form CA, but it seems to me that you ar enot doing any "beatmapping" of your tracks. you need to beatmap vocal samples if you want them to stretch and match loops and beats your are laying underneath them. -marc
Subject:RE: can someone from LA or orange county help me out with acid Reply by: Iacobus Date:1/8/2004 11:43:37 AM Adding to what marc said, keep in mind that time and tempo are co-related. For example, a 4 second long sample that uses a common time signature of 4/4 will fit into a tempo of 60 BPM. A 3 second sample (using the same common time signature) would fit into a tempo of about 80 BPM. If you were to stretch a 3 second sample that's four beats long into 6 seconds, the tempo would become about 40 BPM. Again, this is all assuming the entire sample is four beats long. If it were eight beats long (essentially two measures in common time), the tempo would be 80 BPM. Essentially, what overall tempo are you using for the project? Some formulas that may help: 240 / (intended tempo) = (length in seconds) example: 240 / 80 = 3 seconds (If you wanted to make the sample an eight beat long sample, just double the number of seconds you need.) ------- 240 / (number of seconds in sample) = (tempo) example: 240 / 3 = 80 BPM Since we're assuming the sample is four beats long, we'd have to do some math for longer samples. For example, if the sample was 6 seconds long but we knew the sample contained eight beats, we'd have to divide the number of seconds by half (because we only want a four beat sample to determine tempo): 240 / (6 / 2) = 80 BPM HTH, Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page

Subject:can someone from LA or orange county help me out with acid

Posted by: BeatsBySelf

Date:1/7/2004 11:30:01 AM

ive been using acid 4 about six months now and i still cant figure out a few things for example when i have 2 seperate vocal samples one thats three secs the other 4 secs how would i match them to go with my beat (id like to stretch them both to 6 secs and have them both perserve the same pitch) id also like to learn a simpler way to match beats with lyrics for now i just find a beat and a vocal track and lay them both out and adjust the vocals by chopping/slicing till it sounds right

if u are from anywhere near longbeach/riverside ca let me know maybe we could meet one day and u could help me out an i'll pay u for ur time

thanks u guys are awsome
BeatsBySelf@hotmail.com
AIM: SelfEvidenT90210

Subject:RE: can someone from LA or orange county help me out with acid

Reply by: marcarotsky

Date:1/7/2004 4:21:13 PM

im not form CA, but it seems to me that you ar enot doing any "beatmapping" of your tracks. you need to beatmap vocal samples if you want them to stretch and match loops and beats your are laying underneath them.
-marc

Subject:RE: can someone from LA or orange county help me out with acid

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:1/8/2004 11:43:37 AM

Adding to what marc said, keep in mind that time and tempo are co-related.

For example, a 4 second long sample that uses a common time signature of 4/4 will fit into a tempo of 60 BPM. A 3 second sample (using the same common time signature) would fit into a tempo of about 80 BPM.

If you were to stretch a 3 second sample that's four beats long into 6 seconds, the tempo would become about 40 BPM. Again, this is all assuming the entire sample is four beats long. If it were eight beats long (essentially two measures in common time), the tempo would be 80 BPM.

Essentially, what overall tempo are you using for the project?

Some formulas that may help:

240 / (intended tempo) = (length in seconds)

example: 240 / 80 = 3 seconds

(If you wanted to make the sample an eight beat long sample, just double the number of seconds you need.)

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240 / (number of seconds in sample) = (tempo)

example: 240 / 3 = 80 BPM

Since we're assuming the sample is four beats long, we'd have to do some math for longer samples. For example, if the sample was 6 seconds long but we knew the sample contained eight beats, we'd have to divide the number of seconds by half (because we only want a four beat sample to determine tempo):

240 / (6 / 2) = 80 BPM

HTH,
Iacobus
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