Desert Island / Must Have Loops -ACID Product Family

Subject:Desert Island / Must Have Loops Posted by: chardin Date:2/2/2005 12:32:06 PM I've been playing with Acid Xpress and I'm now waiting for Acid Music Studio to arrive (w00t). In the mean time, tell me what the essential, must have, can't live without loops are. I'm mostly interested in rock and blues but I like all styles. After all, there are only two kinds of music; good and bad. I'm especially on the lookout for percussion loops (congas, triangle, cowbell (!), etc.). But don't let these things influence you. Tell me what your favorite loops are.
Subject:RE: Desert Island / Must Have Loops Reply by: ScarKord Date:2/2/2005 6:08:27 PM My favourite loops are the BT Breakz from the New Skool http://www.soundsonline.com/revBT.shtml Definately worth getting
Subject:RE: Desert Island / Must Have Loops Reply by: jumbuk Date:2/2/2005 9:42:13 PM My "must-haves" out of the Sony loops are: - The original Laswell Ambient Grooves CD - Liquid Planet - Spektral Minimalism As you can see, I am into ambient/chill styles. As well as the above, I use the 4-CD Laswell set and the Ma Ja le sets all the time. For percussion loops, the Electro-world percussion set is not bad either.
Subject:RE: Desert Island / Must Have Loops Reply by: ditroiamusic Date:2/2/2005 9:57:02 PM I highly recommend the Essential sounds series (I believe there are I, II, and III). There are great for getting a wide range of styles. As far as great rock drums, I love the Drum sugar disk and Tony Brock.
Subject:RE: Desert Island / Must Have Loops Reply by: DKeenum Date:2/3/2005 6:53:31 AM I also love the drum suger disk, but it is funky. Have you looked at the sony library? There are a number of blues and rock disks. You'll probably have to get several to get the collection you want. Also the discret drums people have at least one rock disk, and somebody around here recommended a third party drum loop creator. Do a search of the forum for that.
Subject:RE: Desert Island / Must Have Loops Reply by: johnp352 Date:2/3/2005 8:49:28 AM Take a serious look at Spectrasonics Stylus RMX. It's a proprietary drum/percussion vsti, with about 7 GB of "loops"..but it does so much more than that, you really won't believe it . Lots of features..a most amazing one is the "chaos" feature, that lets you set a several parameters for randomizing a loop..not only the actual pattern, but also tuning, dynamics, and push-pull timing..So, for example..you get a conga/percussion loop going and set the Chaos thang to randomize it..it will give you variations of the loop in real time, as well as a capture feature..like what you heard? press a button, capture it, import it into an Acid track, and ..it goes way beyond this..but it is the next step in "loops", especially for being able to provide consistently new materials from the same package. and it works in acid!
Subject:RE: Desert Island / Must Have Loops Reply by: FuzOnAcid Date:2/7/2005 1:32:38 PM I really like the CD's from www.guitarwavs.com I've purchased 3 so far and they are excellent quality loops. The big thing is they allow you to construct songs that don't sound like guitar loops. Check out these compositions I did and you'll see what I mean. http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=436846&T=78 http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=453382&T=2869 cheers fuz

Subject:Desert Island / Must Have Loops

Posted by: chardin

Date:2/2/2005 12:32:06 PM

I've been playing with Acid Xpress and I'm now waiting for Acid Music Studio to arrive (w00t).

In the mean time, tell me what the essential, must have, can't live without loops are.

I'm mostly interested in rock and blues but I like all styles. After all, there are only two kinds of music; good and bad. I'm especially on the lookout for percussion loops (congas, triangle, cowbell (!), etc.).

But don't let these things influence you. Tell me what your favorite loops are.