Disable loop pitch shifting: no need for "root note&quo
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:03 am
Hello Everyone
Glad to see this forum. I have what is probably a dumb question - but it is annoying me something fierce.
I have some drum loops and I was wondering if there was a way to disable the artificial pitch shifting cakewalk does to them by default when you loop.
what I mean is that as I decrease the tempo - say from 130bpm down to 90bpm I want the sample to lower in pitch naturally - as though I were slowing it down on an LP.
Currently if I take a loop which is recorded originally at 130bpm and then drop the project tempo to 90 bpm I get nasty pitch shiting aliasing and I have to MANUALLY alter the pitch of the loop.
first of all this is inconvienient to have to change the "root note" every time I make a dramatic tempo change or use a sample in a tempo dramatically different than it was recorded in.
secondly, there is a loss in sample quality when this artificial pitch shifting is applied. Even when you very closely match the root note to what the sample would really be at a slow bpm, the chances that you are dead-on accurate are nill - and there is sample loss due to reprossesing by the looping pitch shifter.
I hope I have made my problem clear. It's a long explanation for a simple thing. It's annoying how this is difficult for me to convey clearly.
I just want my drum loops - which are already trimmed to loop perfectly - to not be artificially pitch shifted whatsoever. I want to disable the whole "root note" nonesense. I want the sample to simply maintain it's true fidelity - even if that means it is slowed down to sounding like a 78 rpm LP being played at 33 - or if it sounds like chipmunks drumming when I speed the tempo up to 150.
Thanks for your consideration all!
Glad to see this forum. I have what is probably a dumb question - but it is annoying me something fierce.
I have some drum loops and I was wondering if there was a way to disable the artificial pitch shifting cakewalk does to them by default when you loop.
what I mean is that as I decrease the tempo - say from 130bpm down to 90bpm I want the sample to lower in pitch naturally - as though I were slowing it down on an LP.
Currently if I take a loop which is recorded originally at 130bpm and then drop the project tempo to 90 bpm I get nasty pitch shiting aliasing and I have to MANUALLY alter the pitch of the loop.
first of all this is inconvienient to have to change the "root note" every time I make a dramatic tempo change or use a sample in a tempo dramatically different than it was recorded in.
secondly, there is a loss in sample quality when this artificial pitch shifting is applied. Even when you very closely match the root note to what the sample would really be at a slow bpm, the chances that you are dead-on accurate are nill - and there is sample loss due to reprossesing by the looping pitch shifter.
I hope I have made my problem clear. It's a long explanation for a simple thing. It's annoying how this is difficult for me to convey clearly.
I just want my drum loops - which are already trimmed to loop perfectly - to not be artificially pitch shifted whatsoever. I want to disable the whole "root note" nonesense. I want the sample to simply maintain it's true fidelity - even if that means it is slowed down to sounding like a 78 rpm LP being played at 33 - or if it sounds like chipmunks drumming when I speed the tempo up to 150.
Thanks for your consideration all!