Hello Forum,

I have sampled a loop i want to use. But when I switch notes, the speed of the sample varies as well. I am using NN-XT, and can't seem to find an option to maintain time-shift i think is called?

Please help,

Paul

This is normal behaviour of standard sample playback. It's like you pitch a record. When you pitch it up, speed and tone will always raise together.
Unfortunately Reason has no possibility for pitch shifting (without time-stretching) or time stretching (withour pitch shifting). The most popular work around for this is to use Recycle to create a .REX-file out of your loop. Then you could use the DrRex to play it back tempo synchronized. Regrettably Recycle is another product of Propellerhead which would cost you money.

Yeah for heavy time-stretching I wouldn't even recommend recycle, I'd say for the money you pay on recycle put that towards reaper which is crazy cheap and has excellent time-stretching algorithms and then rewire the two. Now you get the benefit of vsts, good audio editing features and much more.

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I do have Recycle, I just haven't used it. My loop is in .aiff, so do I just load that to Recycle and save it as .rex...........Then load it to the DrRex?

Gonna give it a go while you respond. And Uhh, thanks! LOL!

Paul

you load it up with recycle then add slices at every beat (search youtube for tutorials on drrex i you don't know what that means) which makes it variable tempo but NOT timestretched which is what DAWs like ableton do. then you save it as a rx2 file or whatever, and load it with dr rex. make sure you get the tempo right though, that can be difficult.

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Ok, I was able to get the sample into DrRex, and can do the octave shift, but the speed/tempo is variable still. So will Ableton do the trick? I have most music software (my comp was sold with all the software included), and I do believe I have Ableton Live.

Regards.

Paul

Ableton does timestretching very well. It's called "warping" there and it's well explained in the manual.

I think, you've done something wrong. You should load a standard Dr.Rex loop from the Reason factory sound library and see, what happens when you hit the "to track" button and then play it back. You will see the principle of rex-loops very quickly then. After this, you should get familar how to slice your loop with Recycle correctly.
OR you just use Ableton. ;-)

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