What's the best software I can use for this? (looping samples and adjusting tempo)

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Firstly props to some dope creative people in here. A lot of talent and great music, salute you all.

I used to use Sony Acid back in the day for loops..... to loop shyt up, change the tempo and play with loops and sample them.

What's the easiest thing to use now? This was 18 years ago, so I thought things might be different now.

I'ma get Logic anyway, but is that best for this?

I'm a Mac user.
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Fruity Loops.

Just load your sample in Edison, normalize, chop it up
Than throw it in Fruity Slicer... Boom

LOL. Don't normalize remember to gain stage. But I need to follow your advice. I'm getting back to making beats and have so many tutorials i been downloading and youtube videoes saved and youtube channels on everything plus madd programs, plus books, It's a little overwhelming where to start. Well thats happening now. I'ma start recording in edison or somewhere else to save the sample to check if it detects the bpm in serato then virtual dj, then i wanna check out serato stems, and work my way up like that. I never knew what finding the key of the sample is for but i got a book for that.. it has to be there somewhere, but i really have to take some time.. But i'm all over the place in my house and i get sleepy during the day cus of my meds and then i start procrastination. But I'm going to get too it.......
 

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was reading this book, it has a good analysis on sampling. But in a little i'm about to read chapter 4 on how to sample and all that to get back too it and learn anything I missed.


Edit: well, I read yesterday some pages and learn some shyt, cleared my understanding of some shyt., got to read more today. I downloaded wavelab elements and spent the day learning that and recorded the song with gain staging as close as one can get and trim it to as perfect as i could to see if it reads the bpm in those programs i got. but i saved it as wave, I might have to save as mp3, i will see today . I'll probably normalize it the right levels completely. Someone from this site told to try wavelabs and it's great, not as intuitive as cool edit (remember that shyt) but it'ss cool to use for this purpose of recording and editing.

If anyone wants to know more about gain staging check this out: Headroom in Audio: How to Get Levels for Mixing and Mastering

edit 2: well i made a mp3 320 version of the song. Tried with virtual dj and it reads 132.07, tried the mp3 and it said 131.79. Then i tryed serato and the same for the wave but the mp3 this time said 83 which is prob. right one. But how do i make sure anyone know?

edit 3: I got to figure this out myself and leave ya'll alone.. lol. But just going to finish with this one.

Ok, i went to soulseek and downloaded a bunch of mp3 and different bitrate of the song and tryed it on everything and they all say 132. Then i remembered I picked up this site Song Key Finder | Your Source for Creating the Perfect Mashup | AudioKeychain from here and the mp3 of mine said 100bpm. Then i download a mp3 from soulseek and it said 99bpm. So i'm still not knowing still. lol How do y'all check for the bpm or get the bpm of a record?? The good thing is the key is always the same, so it must be it.

Just want to post again to drop off some info for those into doing gain staging right. Go here and read this post for info.


then go here and cop this plug-in for 10 bucks, really great one that does rms and all types of gain staging, how it should be done.


I thought I could just normalize the peaks and it would be fine, but read that post. Also, I think the song I have called back into the dream is 100 bpm cus i beat detected in fl studio 21 and it said 100.9. I won't know for sure until I start making the beat.
 
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was reading this book, it has a good analysis on sampling. But in a little i'm about to read chapter 4 on how to sample and all that to get back too it and learn anything I missed.


Edit: well, I read yesterday some pages and learn some shyt, cleared my understanding of some shyt., got to read more today. I downloaded wavelab elements and spent the day learning that and recorded the song with gain staging as close as one can get and trim it to as perfect as i could to see if it reads the bpm in those programs i got. but i saved it as wave, I might have to save as mp3, i will see today . I'll probably normalize it the right levels completely. Someone from this site told to try wavelabs and it's great, not as intuitive as cool edit (remember that shyt) but it'ss cool to use for this purpose of recording and editing.

If anyone wants to know more about gain staging check this out: Headroom in Audio: How to Get Levels for Mixing and Mastering

edit 2: well i made a mp3 320 version of the song. Tried with virtual dj and it reads 132.07, tried the mp3 and it said 131.79. Then i tryed serato and the same for the wave but the mp3 this time said 83 which is prob. right one. But how do i make sure anyone know?

edit 3: I got to figure this out myself and leave ya'll alone.. lol. But just going to finish with this one.

Ok, i went to soulseek and downloaded a bunch of mp3 and different bitrate of the song and tryed it on everything and they all say 132. Then i remembered I picked up this site Song Key Finder | Your Source for Creating the Perfect Mashup | AudioKeychain from here and the mp3 of mine said 100bpm. Then i download a mp3 from soulseek and it said 99bpm. So i'm still not knowing still. lol How do y'all check for the bpm or get the bpm of a record?? The good thing is the key is always the same, so it must be it.

Just want to post again to drop off some info for those into doing gain staging right. Go here and read this post for info.


then go here and cop this plug-in for 10 bucks, really great one that does rms and all types of gain staging, how it should be done.


I thought I could just normalize the peaks and it would be fine, but read that post. Also, I think the song I have called back into the dream is 100 bpm cus i beat detected in fl studio 21 and it said 100.9. I won't know for sure until I start making the beat.

I'm hella late....

But I think the best way to find BMP is to get one of those counters and just tap it out?
That always worked for me.
 

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From what OP is describing I'd go with either FL studio or Ableton.

If you are hesitating between the two, i would say they can both more or less do the same things. I guess it depends on how you tend to think/visualize things, what types of manipulations you're gonna be spending the most time doing, but also what are your friends/collaborators using if you want to do stuff with them.

I could be wrong but I feel like most people in EDM use Ableton and FL is more popular in the hip hop crowd.
 
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