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Hope209 · 25th January 2006, 10:21 PM

Ok, I know nothing about MIDI and have been very anti-loops and MIDI(aren't most guitarists?) but lately my opinion has been changing. A lot of my favorite bands or producers incorporate little loops and electronic beats into their songs so I think I should try to too.

So how do you guys do it? I know nothing about drums and can't play them on a keyboard to save my life. Yesterday I recorded this woman who wanted some electronic drums on her song, but neither of us can play drums at all so we went through the drum kits on my Motif ES8 and simply recorded the arpeggiated beats. BUT the tempos can't be changed to perfect increments so while we recorded the piano at 152bpm, the beat we wanted only went to 151 or 153.

I would like to get some loops that I can use to play along with on guitar. Regular 5 piece kits and techno kits would be cool. Can you just buy loops and import them to your sequencer(Im using Pro Tools LE) onto a MIDI track? Or what? And when you buy loops, how do you guys manipulate them to make it how you want? Thanks!

25th January 2006, 10:21 PM	#1
Hope209 Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 592	Drum loops Ok, I know nothing about MIDI and have been very anti-loops and MIDI(aren't most guitarists?) but lately my opinion has been changing. A lot of my favorite bands or producers incorporate little loops and electronic beats into their songs so I think I should try to too. So how do you guys do it? I know nothing about drums and can't play them on a keyboard to save my life. Yesterday I recorded this woman who wanted some electronic drums on her song, but neither of us can play drums at all so we went through the drum kits on my Motif ES8 and simply recorded the arpeggiated beats. BUT the tempos can't be changed to perfect increments so while we recorded the piano at 152bpm, the beat we wanted only went to 151 or 153. I would like to get some loops that I can use to play along with on guitar. Regular 5 piece kits and techno kits would be cool. Can you just buy loops and import them to your sequencer(Im using Pro Tools LE) onto a MIDI track? Or what? And when you buy loops, how do you guys manipulate them to make it how you want? Thanks!