JASON DONNELLY: The final process is ACIDizing the loop, which attaches specific metadata that is readable by programs such as ACID and Garageband, Soundtrack, Sonar. There's quite a few now that do use this. So what I'm going to use? Ope ACID Pro 6. I'm going to explore the window and I'm going to navigate to the desktop which is where I saved the Big Nasty Trance Pad. I'm just going to drag it up to the workspace. Try it again, boom. Beatmapper? No. I don't want to beat map this. I actually want to call it. It's going to be a loop so.

So now, the next thing I want to do is click on clip properties. Right down here it says ACID type. I'm going to select loop. Next, go to the stretch properties. Whoa, look at all those markers. Okay. What we're going to do here is we're going to select, first of all, the root note which I know is in the key of A. Looping segments? Yes, and transient sensitivity I'm going to bring it all the way down to zero.

Now I'm going to set the timing to eighth notes and the spacing to eighth notes since most of the, actually I believe all of the notes on this are eighth notes excepts for the long ones obviously, but the shortest note, or the shortest duration is an eighth note on this one so it makes sense to select eighth notes and it places a marker every eighth note. Save the file down, and you are golden. That is an ACIDized loop.

[JASON DONNELLY STARTS PLAYING ACIDIZED LOOP]

You can change keys, down to the key of F. Let's try the key of D. Now, yopu can experiment with the stretch basing. Sometimes less markers sound better. Sometimes more sound better depending on the quality or the character of the sound. I know bass notes, for example, you don't want too many over bass tones because you can hear the warbling of the ACIDize or the stretch process, so over a bass tone you'd want less markers.

All right, here's the stretch properties. Hold on one minute. Okay, here we have the stretch properties window up close. Your ACID type here should be loop, select loop, and now you have a stretch properties tab. Click the stretch properties tab, root note is A because I know the root note in this file is A. Stretching segments or looping segments is correct. Let's bring transient sensitivity all the way down to zero. I don't really need that up but we will force them at specific durations. Eighth notes will work on this file since the shortest duration performed in here is an eighth note, and so that should do it.

[JASON DONNELLY STARTS PLAYING ACIDIZED LOOP]

There you have an ACIDized file, an ACIDized loop, save it down and you are done.