Difference between REX2 and WAV Loops?

[loachm]

I already decided to add Rex-support to LiveSlice for that same reason - the format is very widespread. It will be in LiveSlice 1.5, next release is 1.4. I'm still gonna copy their stretching algorithm though

...this has so made my day...



...but will it also import Recycle 2.1 files in 24bit?

[ohm]

...but will it also import Recycle 2.1 files in 24bit?

I'm 98% positive it will. What happens is that Propellerheads supply the actual Recycle reader, I simply have to integrate it (after signing a pile of legal documents). It should be very simple to keep it up to date this way.

[spectrum]

spectrum

Just in order to defy you a bit :

How would your groove control behave with a looped sample of a entire rock music mix ?

An example i have in mind : released in 1972, the intro of "highway star" from the band Deep Purple ( the album called "Machine head" ) that is purely a 4/4 ,squary, hard rock kind of music

this is of a perfect timing and a very simple groove ( probably easy to modify without severe artifacts, but absolutely no sequences inside ) would it be then possible, after overall adjustments of course, to turn it to some shuffle kind of groove ( like the BACKGROUND GROOVES of music of bands like Status Quo or Mungo Jerry, both from early seventies too, with thenss very similar kind of production ! )

This by stetching and crunching the appropriate slices inside the loops ?

Our Groove Control method works best mainly on percussive material. Tonal loops are an entirely different ballgame.

[ohm]

spectrum

Just in order to defy you a bit :

How would your groove control behave with a looped sample of a entire rock music mix ?

An example i have in mind : released in 1972, the intro of "highway star" from the band Deep Purple ( the album called "Machine head" ) that is purely a 4/4 ,squary, hard rock kind of music

this is of a perfect timing and a very simple groove ( probably easy to modify without severe artifacts, but absolutely no sequences inside ) would it be then possible, after overall adjustments of course, to turn it to some shuffle kind of groove ( like the BACKGROUND GROOVES of music of bands like Status Quo or Mungo Jerry, both from early seventies too, with thenss very similar kind of production ! )

This by stetching and crunching the appropriate slices inside the loops ?

Our Groove Control method works best mainly on percussive material. Tonal loops are an entirely different ballgame.

you should check out scrambled hacks - looks like a very fun tool. Not exactly a typical groove quantizer though

[Krakatau]

Thanks for the tips folks, ...

...i expect that i still need to wait and see the overall evolution of these time stretching/pitch shifting technique, especially if once they would be specifically targeting REX files or similar techniques of beatslicing, this as a complementary direction of its actual improoved use

"Tonal loops are an entirely different ballgame."

I suspect you may have some major experiences on that precise point, isn't it ?



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just had a very short look on these "scrambled hacks" concepts

look quite disturbing, but simultaneously a very sensible critique about intellectualk properties

[loachm]

An example i have in mind : released in 1972, the intro of "highway star" from the band Deep Purple ( the album called "Machine head" ) that is purely a 4/4 ,squary, hard rock kind of music

this is of a perfect timing and a very simple groove ( probably easy to modify without severe artifacts, but absolutely no sequences inside ) would it be then possible, after overall adjustments of course, to turn it to some shuffle kind of groove ( like the BACKGROUND GROOVES of music of bands like Status Quo or Mungo Jerry, both from early seventies too, with thenss very similar kind of production ! )

This by stetching and crunching the appropriate slices inside the loops ?

...actually, I've seen a guy at the Celemony stand at the Musikmesse doing this with the Studio version of Melodyne 3 and its new polyphonic time-stretching algorithm - he took a complete mix and slowed it down or speeded it up and shuffled it. And I guess, Ableton Live could also do the same to some extent...