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To earn a 4.0 you will need to
select all
of your own loops. First open Sonic Foundry Acid DJ 3.0. Go
to the loop library and listen to loops. To listen to a loop
click
on it one time, or right click on it and select “play media.”
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Choose a loop that you would
like to use as
your most important loop in your song. This should not be a drum,
bass, symbol, vocal, or scratching loop. Double click on it and
it
will appear at the upper left hand side of your song file.
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Look for other loops that you
think would
sound good playing at the same time as your main loop or playing before
it, or playing after it. Put these in your song by double
clicking
on them.
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There is a bar to the right of
all of your
tracks. To add your loops to your song, select the pencil at the
top of your screen and click and drag everywhere that you want your
track
to play. At the beginning of your song, temporarily draw all of
your
tracks. This will allow you to listen to different tracks
together
and see which combinations sound the best.
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To listen to a track press the
solo key on
that track and press play. The solo button looks like this:
! To listen to tracks together press the solo button on all
of the tracks that you would like to hear together. Write down
which
tracks sound good together and which ones do not. If there are
any
tracks that don’t work at all with the others delete them by right
clicking
and choosing “cut track.”
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Choose at least one track to
start your song
with. DO NOT start your song with all of your loop tracks
playing!
DO NOT start your song with your strongest wildest and loudest loop
tracks
playing. A good song usually starts quietly and builds up
slowly.
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Decide how long you want the
beginning to
last.
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Add one or more loop tracks a
little ways
into the song to make the song build up a little.
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Next try making a big
change.
Add one or more tracks that make the song change a lot. Remove
one
or more really important tracks also. The song should become
louder,
stronger, or more intense at this point.
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Let the song go for a while with
the new tracks
then do something to make the song relax, get more quiet, or get less
intense.
You may want to go back to using the same tracks you had at the
beginning
of the song.
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Continue to make the song go
back and forth
from being stronger and louder to softer and quieter.
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Choose one section right before
the end of
your song and put as many loops as you can in it, but don’t put loops
in
if they don’t sound good. This part should be the most intense
part
of your song.
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Decide how to end your
song. You may
want to suddenly remove lots of loops all at once, or gradually take
them
out.
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