Here’s a new project idea. I’ll let you in on the process of creating a new track.
Lately a song is recorded, then minimally mixed, then it’s published here and I never don’t look back.
But sometimes it’s fun making something and building on it till it seems done.
That’s where this project comes in. For the next 10 days a new portion of this track will be published with the latest additions mentioned here.
The core sample was found from an older song. It came from a long session. This loop was pulled out back then. It has a pop so it needed to be cleaned up to fit in the main audio editor.
This was chopped in Audacity and made loopable. I found that the best free audio editing software (on any platform) can’t do a very basic operation: stretch a loop to an exact time. This loop was a bit short of the full 4 seconds of a perfect 120 bpm. So I stretched it to 4 seconds and it was still just shy. When importing it to a new audio program (Garageband). The loop feature quickly got out of phase with the timeline.
After many attempts at fixing it to no avail, including making it a mono track, the hack solution was to stretch it a little further than 4 seconds, then manually cut it shorter to exactly 4 seconds then fade our and in the end and beginning of the file to give ‘zero-crossings’ at the loop point.
This works but it is now but is a few milliseconds ‘untrue’ which pisses me off.
The mp3 here is the current working loop. Also included is the original wav file. It loops fine as is, but as mentioned isn’t a perfect 120 bpm.
If you want can fix the original, go for it. I’d love to use it here.
