Music Making Month - Using Loops to Start Song Ideas

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Uploaded by on May 4, 2011

In this Music Making Month video, Product Specialist Mattias Häggström Gerdt shows us how you can kickstart song ideas but chopping up basic loops for inspiration. Don't let the common attitude that using sampled loops in your music is not real creativity! Some of the biggest hits of the last 30 years started off as loop manipulations.

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  • @cranedeck I did apologize for that, I had some mic issues I couldn't fix before deadline but it'll be better for future videos. ALSO CAPS LOCK MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER.

  • Mattias, as you were explaining this awesome technique, I was like "eh, I usually do this with a Dr.OctoRex (including the audio reverse) or a bunch of them and a 6:2 mixer with Solo automation or through CV" ...until you hit the clip Time Stretching part :P

    Then I just had to "ooooooh, now that's a cool use of that in there :D" ...and then I also remembered that this helps those without ReCycle, dealing with plain .wav/.aiff files :)

    Very good video tip! :)

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  • I have so much to learn : ) Very nice...

  • @asdasf42 One more will go up tomorrow! Then I'm afraid you'll have to be patient as nothing else is planned post-Music Making Month. A lot of cool content to check out on the YouTube channel though!

  • please mattias, show us more! i absolutely love your videos ;)

  • @AnosouMattias ahh i understand. i get it this month :D. looking forward. thank u

  • @intensityxc Reverse and Normalize were options introduced in Record 1.5 which is a free download when you upgrade to Reason 5. Sorry about that!

  • i got reason 4 - record 1.0 but it doesn´t work to reverse a part like u did.

  • Wow, now there is absolutely no reason for me to use Acid...moment of silence...

  • thank yoU!

  • WHY CAN'T REASON OPEN UP AUDIO FILES LIKE THAT :(((

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