6/8 Drumloops Question

[bigfishaudio]

Hello All,

We are currently working on a drumloop library of triple meter and odd meter drum loops. As many of you know 6/8 drum loops are traditionally counted in 2 with a dotted quarter note. Many of you have probably discovered that using certain DAW's like logic doesn't deal with this type of counting very well. When switching your global time signature to 6/8 it makes the beat on the 8th note pulse rather than making a 2 beat feel with 8th note triplets as the pulse. So for example if you have 6/8 loop at 60bpm (according to a dotted quarter note beat) you would actually have to set your tempo to 180bpm to get it to line up with your measures properly. A solution to this is to set your time signature to 2/4 at 60bpm and your loop will now line up properly and your click will play back with a 2 beat feel for each measure.

whew!! now onto the actual question. Which would you prefer: setting your global tempo to 180bpm with the time signature set to 6/8 or setting your tempo to 60bpm with your time signature set to 2/4.

How you respond will determine how we edit these files for apple loops and rex. If we format a 6/8 apple loop to the faster 8th note pulse and someone sets their session at a slower tempo for a 2 beat click then the loop will play insanely slow and sound terrible. This goes for the other way around as well. So we want to know what the majority would prefer.


thanks in advance for all your input on this.
Sincerely, The Big Fish Production Team

[KrisM]

I'm curious if any DAWs actually handle this well? And what issues would such work arounds cause those that do? I suppose users of them could do similar work arounds for them to work in their DAW.