LoopBoxes

 

    

The LoopBoxes are "Construction Kit" products. This means that you get a groove of 4 to 8 bars in length containing 4 to 7 different parts.

A typical setup could be:

• Drum part
• Bass part
• Rhodes part
• Guitar part
• Synth / FX part

Some of the LoopBoxes also contains Strings, Brass, Percussion, Piano, Vibes and many other instrument parts. In most cases each part is a 4-bar loop. This should actually be considered as several smaller loops. Typically these loops can be cut into four 1-bar loops, or even better: Lots of little bits and pieces.                                                 

In other cases, for instance drum parts, the same loop repeats continuously during several bars. Therefore some LoopBoxes has two drum loops. The first being the main groove/drumpart, and the second a fill or variation of the groove.

 

The loops are mapped to the white keys, starting from the C1 key. The example below shows the keymap for one of the available LoopBox construction kits.

                                    

 

The LoopBoxes also includes two different MIDI files:                                             

"XXXXX.mid" and "XXXXX Remixed.mid".                                                         

The first being the MIDI file that was created for the main mp3 demo. When you load "XXXXX" groove into your soft sampler, and import the first MIDI file into your host sequencer you should be able to hear the groove as played on the demo. But at much higher sonic quality (24 bit / 44.1 kHz). Remember to match the tempo of your host sequencer to the LoopBox you have opened. Otherwise it will sound funny.....

The second MIDI file is a "Remixed" version. Or maybe we should have called it a "Re-arranged" version. Because it is still the very same loops that will playback, only in a different order. No actual mixing such as pan settings, added effects or automation was used on the remixed versions. Only the order of the midi notes triggering the loops, and in some cases the velocity values (defining the level), has been altered.                 

These re-arranged versions should give you an idea of how much you can do with the same few loops if you work with them creatively. Please take a minute or two to listen to the "Remixed" versions, and study the MIDI file; then break it up, re-arrange, manipulate the loops.....                                      

Here you will find more details about creative looping.

And remember: all loops are being triggered from the beginning. A lot of new possibilities reveals once you start to mess with the raw audio files. Just imagine the creative potential when you cut the individual loops into pieces, add effects, pitchshift, timestrech, reverse, and start messing around with the root keys and key ranges in the soft sampler. Virtually endless possibilities.