PRODUCING YOUR OWN MUSIC

Sony ACIDxpress 5.0

WHAT ARE MUSIC LOOPS

A Music Loops is an audio file that, when played over and over, appears to be a continuous piece of music. A single loop might be a mixture of more than one instrument, but more often a drum beat, keyboard part, a definite tune from say a

piano, or a vocal sample containing several words, sometimes there can be enough vocal samples supplied to create you own song, in the vocalists voice. There are programmes that can cut up the loop, and if the loop contains words then you can rearrange the words.

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PRODUCING YOUR OWN MUSIC

Most sequencers work as bellow, you load music loops and single hits onto the tracks, the samples are seen as a waves in a rectangle, and are arranged in tracks, an upright line moves across indicating the point at which the audio is played.

The sequencer below is FREE, but a cut down version of, Sony Acid, Sony ACIDXpress 5.0, it allows you to in effect paint the sound where you want with a brush or pencil tool.

ABOUT MIDI

Sound cards support both the recording of audio, and the use of “midi”, midi can be used to trigger sounds, often synthesized, often triggering sounds recorded from real instruments, these sounds may be stored on a sound card, sound modules are also available, sounds can be triggered by a midi keyboard often connected in through a game port on a PC

Sounds on your hard drive can also be triggered by a midi keyboard through a sequencer that supports midi, and such as VST Instruments. Just about any instrument can be in a sense played on a keyboard and at any quality, you can even have the sound quality of the finest pianos in the world, every note recorded for your midi keyboard to trigger.

YOUR MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS BECOME YOUR OWN COPYRIGHT

If the music loops are used as as part of a derivative musical work created by the licensed end user the derivative work is the copyright of the end user.

With free music loops you are a licensed user, but check any licence agreement for any unusual terms.

If you purchase the loops or they come with a programme always read the licence agreement, there are a few programmes that require you to acknowledge where you obtained your samples for creating your music on any Cds that you produce to sell.