Acid Loops

[Jay Johnson]

I have a bunch of acid loops. When I preview them, they play fine, but when I put them into a project, they all play in the same key. Any thoughts?

[David Baay]

Isn't that the point of using acidized files - that they'll be  stretched and pitched to follow the project tempo and key?

I don't compose with loops but I believe you can disable the default key-following behavior in the Groove Clip section of the Clip Properties tab in the Inspector.

[Mr No Name]

acid loops have a specific file extension name that might not be recognised in sonar, sonar has it's own version called "groove clips" I believe.

[David Baay]

5 minutes ago, Mr No Name said:

acid loops have a specific file extension name that might not be recognised in sonar, sonar has it's own version called "groove clips" I believe.

I believe this is mainly a difference in terminology. Both Acid and Goove Clip files use a .WAV extension with the tempo, key and beat marker metadata encoded in the file header. So far as I know, Sonar fully supports the Acid format for .WAV files as well as .REX files.

[Chaps]

20 minutes ago, Jay Johnson said:

I have a bunch of acid loops. When I preview them, they play fine, but when I put them into a project, they all play in the same key. Any thoughts?

It's been a long time since I've worked with loops but I believe in the Loop Construction View (Alt+7) you have the option of the loop following the project pitch (key) or root pitch of your choice. In the image below it shows the PITCH button NOT Highlighted, where it follows the project pitch and Highlighted where you pick a root pitch for the loop, which will change the pitch of the sample's playback. I don't have any Acid Loops to try this on but this is how Groove Clip pitches are changed.

[Jay Johnson]

If a have a loop that is AM and a loop the is F they both play fine when I preview them, but when I drag them into the project they all play in Cm and the key of the song is Am. I don't use loops much either, but was playing around with them.

[Mr No Name]

34 minutes ago, Jay Johnson said:

If a have a loop that is AM and a loop the is F they both play fine when I preview them, but when I drag them into the project they all play in Cm and the key of the song is Am. I don't use loops much either, but was playing around with them.

what happens if you change the tempo of the project? does the key of the loops change ?

[Jay Johnson]

I did try Chaps workaround, and it does solve the issue. It's just extra work to have to manually do each loop. Changing the tempo didn't matter. I just thought there might be a specific reason why all the loops were going to Cm. My first time on the forum. I'm impressed with all the quick help. Thanks