How to treat Audio Percussion Loops for MediaBay

Cubase
#1

Hi,

I have created some percussion audio loops using hit points. I would like to import them in MediaBay with their tempo value as meta data attribute. However, to have them to response perfectly to different project tempos, what should I do please?

I have seen a video that create slices by fine tuning hit points ( say using threshold), selecting all the slices, creating crossfades between slides to fill the gaps between the slides, and finally doing render in-place?

Is the way I should treat the loops?

Now, since I have many of these loops, can I create Macro to do simplify the process?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

CS

#2

For maximum compatibility yes, render-in-place is a solution when the loop is perfectly like you want it.
There are ways to save sliced loops as well (one would be rex-files, Cubase can import them, maybe even save, I’m not sure on that one)

But yes, when you want to be on the safe (and future-proof) side a plain, perfectly cut wave-file will be your friend. I tend to include the original bpm in the name of the wavefile for future reference as well.

#3

Thank you Codex. And no, you cannot export to rex using cubase or GA! I am not sure if the result would be as good as rex2 format when tempo is changed.