converting Acid>Apple Loops -great App.!!!

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converting Acid>Apple Loops -great App.!!!

Sample Manager does this perfectly! Once your Acid .wav files are converted to 44.1kHz aif Apple Loops with correct tempo & beat information, you can then load the files into the Apple Loops Utility for batch or individual tagging (genre/Instrument etc.). Once this is done & you've saved the results, you will have a new set of Apple Loops which you can drag onto the Loop Browser and they will be indexed perfectly.

Really, really useful. If you're not on Tiger yet-I'm not either- the Panther version of Sample Manager does the job with no problems. You might have to repair permissions before resaving the files if they came from a sample CD or commercial source (as they probably will).

Nigel

Posted on Oct 17, 2005 3:52 PM

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HangTime

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Oct 17, 2005 4:20 PM in response to Nigel Watson1

Nigel, you're adding an unneeded step. STLU will accept .WAV files and do the conversion all by itself.

--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-)>

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Oct 17, 2005 5:50 PM in response to Nigel Watson1

True, but the drag about the STLU is that is places the loops in a folder entitled "Converted to Aiff" (as you know). If you have a bunch of loops, that can get really tiresom. Hopefully, Apple will update the STLU someday.

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Oct 17, 2005 6:16 PM in response to SmokinHalfNote

STLU is that is places the loops in a folder entitled "Converted to Aiff"

I honestly didn't find that an issue. The folder was created within the folder which had contained the bunch of loops (AFAIR). And since the loops were now tagged, all I was doing was dropping them into the loop browser where they were sorted, searchable, and fully accessible.

Then again, this was not much more than an experiment well over a year and a half ago <shrug>

--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-)>

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Oct 17, 2005 7:00 PM in response to Nigel Watson1

Yeah, I guess it depends how you use them. If you're dragging and dropping from the finder, it might not be that big a deal; however, when you use a file browser like Ableton Live or Soundtrack it can become cumbersome.

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