CHANGING THE KEY TO FIT THE SONG IN APPLE LOOPS

many tks 4 reply, leonie

these tracks were originally created in Band in a Box (don't know if that makes any diff), dragged an dropped to GB.

1) In your statement: " Since your tracks are in F#, you should create your project set to . . ." What is a project set? (please excuse, i'm a mac newbie)

do you mean i should go back to square 1 (in band in a box) an change the key sig to "C" so that it will match the apple loops ?( because of the vocal range of the song, this is the only key the vocalist could sing it in). Is "create your project set in F# something i would do in band in a box or GB

2) on making the loops follow the chord prog, you say: "you will have to transpose each of the loops for the chord progression by shifting the slider". I understand better by seeing examples (screen shots would be MOST app) lets say my song changes from F# > B -- EXACTLY what steps would i take to make the loops change from F# > B at this point in my song.

I've viewed videos and tutorials and spent quite a bit of research and homework with this issue and am pretty much at my wits end. i guess that's just the price you pay for being a newbie. any help you (or anyone else reading this post) can offer would be greatly app.

roger

ps you are correct: it should have been+ 6 semitones. i tried +6 (+7, +5, ) nothing sounded right and i think the reason was because i hadn't tried to transpose each of the loops to fit the chord progression.

MANY MANY TKS LEONIE - -

especially tks for the screen shots - they helped more than all the tutorials i've viewed put together. two last questions on this issue: 1) on transposing the loops so that they follow the songs chord prog -- i'm doing this:

after opening GB and assigning my key sig, i then xferred some tracks (drag & drop) from Band in a Box to GB. in the particular loop i'm using its 16 bars and my first chord change is at bar 4. precisely at bar 4 i have chopped off

(cut) the loop and by using the slider, made the transposition for that chord change and then (by drag & drop) add that same loop back into the track immediately behind where i chopped the first one off.-- i'm repeating this process everywhere there's a chord change. seems like i'm doing a lot of work for nothing with a lot of redundancy. (light bulb goes on ! !) why couldn't i just extend the loop all the way out for the length of my song and then put a break (cut the loop) separate it and with the slider transpose, then move it back let it play till the next chord change, cut it, separate it, transpose it, etc, etc.

2) i need to xfer and audio file (.wav) into GB and don't know how but some of the forums i've been reading say it has to be in AIFF. True ?? how would i xfer .wav from reaper > GB

as always

thanks

roger

sorry 4 the confusion - i'll try again

what i transferred from Band in a Box was audio files (.wav) and these were the basis for my song in GB. "in the particular loop i'm using" --- this refers to apple loops that were inserted from the apple loop browser. i want these loops to play in sync and change chords with the tracks i've already imported fro Band in a Box. hope this clears up the confusion.

in ref back to my last reply to you -- disregard my question regarding cutting the loops and transposing the cut segments-- i solved that one myself (thanks to your input from a previous reply) i checked out the links you included in your last reply -- they provided exactly the info i needed. thanks again for everything. like i said earlier, i'm not even sure that i qualify for "newbie" status as i havent had the mac very long and i'm sure i'll probably be back on the forum when i get stuck again

regards

roger