Loop library question

[blades]

Hi All. I have a friend who does primarily what I'd call Contemporary Christian Pop. He is using Sonar 5, a number of loop sample sets, and has Stylus RMX as well. The problem is that he can't seem to find a good set of loops that offer ANY variety in the 6/8 feel category.

He's looking for audio or midi loops. If audio, then that's that. If midi, he may be running them through something like a vdrums brain or through something like EZDrummer, which he will only buy if he can find a good collection of 6/8 pop loops with quality and variety.

Anyone have any thoughts on the matter?

[blades]

Hmmm...

Have I posted this in the wrong section? Can someone steer me in the right direction?

Thanks

[Jeremy_NSL]

I think you can do fine just with RMX. You'll need to just edit the loops a bit.

ie. drag and drop the RMX midi into your sequencer. Now, you can tweak the midi to fit into a 6/8 time sig. It shouldn't be too difficult.

[herodotus]

Endangered Rhythms volume 2 has a great many loops in 6/8 and 3/4 time. They are available in Rex2 format as well as wav, so they can easily be used in Stylus RMX.

And they are really cheap!

To find out more (demos and whatnot), you can click my sig.

And welcome to kvr!

[jeffb01]

the burning grooves SAGE expansion pack for stylus has some 6/8 grooves (around 25)

[fugga]

is there not a stretch tool in sonar that you could use on any midi file?

[blades]

Thanks for the suggestions so far. It appears from the number of suggestions and the few loops that may be in each suggestion that this is indeed a shortcoming of the market.

fugga: yes there are ways to manipulate stuf, like stretching things around, in Sonar, but that won't really help turn a 4/4 groove into a 6/8 one

Do you folks know of any other places to ask this question?

Thanks again.