How do you arrange different loops when they have different chord progressions?

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I'm talking about cloud-based production services like LoopCloud and Splice.

They promote the fact that their samples will be pitch-shifted to the key of your song / project.

But each sample, out of the thousands available, may follow different chord progressions anyway.

So what if you like a guitar riff, but it has a different chord progression?

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I just look for another one or chop and mix it up with something that works.
Since studio one 4 i could „tune“ them progression-wise but I stick to my old fashioned way somehow. In the fullblown versions of Cubase and Melodyne you can change things drastically as well, when it comes to polyphonic content.

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Do not use melodic loops :shrug:

Maybe for granular synthesis, but then they're going to be transposed anyway.
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Long approach: Get experienced with music theory
Quick remedy: Mix & match (trial & error), eventually you will find yourself achieving the point above.

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For me using melodic loops doesn't help you grow as a musician. It's also a little bit like paint by numbers and leads to very generic sounding tracks. If you must use melodic loops then you will need to find a zero crossing point in the sample to slice and dice the melody into the order you want. There are a number of plugins that will do this for you, some may be available in your sequencer of choice.
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fantasyvn wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2019 7:31 pm
So what if you like a guitar riff, but it has a different chord progression?

Thanks,
Find another one that doesn't :shrug: (I don't use other peoples melodic samples).

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biodiode wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:29 pm For me using melodic loops doesn't help you grow as a musician. It's also a little bit like paint by numbers and leads to very generic sounding tracks.
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fantasyvn wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2019 7:31 pm
So what if you like a guitar riff, but it has a different chord progression?

Thanks,
Try to make the guitar riff work with the chord progression. This is actually a great opportunity to make something creative from the paint-by-numbers set. Transpose the riff to different keys, move individual notes around until they sound right (or just less wrong). This is work, and can be a painful process, but you'll certainly learn and gain something from the experience.

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call up your ex boyfriend who plays guitar and go through some of his stuff, while he expectedly waits, with concerned looks on his face. take a few of his guitar pics and leave. now you won't screw up your jerk off finger tips opening all those cans of diet soda.

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I dont usually work with loops but you can try high passing away the root notes and it may fit better with the base line your song has.

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