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Creating loop-based soundtracks in Adobe Audition.

Article Excerpt
Loop-based music creation is a technique that is being used in a lot of the programs that you see (and hear) on broadcast television today. Loop music is created when repetitive parts of a piece of music are made into single pieces that the editor/composer can elongate (repeat) for as long or short a period as he or she needs for the purposes at hand. That said, loops usually contain one or two bars of music.

Adobe Audition 2.0 ships with many loops that can be used for productions, and it even comes with pre-made examples of what loop-based music can sound like. Some of these are truly fantastic, and I wouldn't hesitate to use them in any of my productions. Another point is that anything that we make with these loops is copyright-free--we do not need to pay royalties or worry about copyright violation when we incorporate them into our work. Variety, quality, control, and freedom from copyright concerns are four of the main advantages to creating your own music beds by using the looping properties of Adobe Audition.

Let's get started! The first thing that you need to do is start a new Multitrack session--I called mine "Looping music."

Step 1

Now you can open some of the loops that Audition already includes. First, double-click on the Filespanel. The Import File panel opens, and there you can navigate to your Audition Loop files. My loop files are under C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Audition 2.0\Content\Loopology, as shown in Figure 1. For the example used in this tutorial I chose selections from the Lounge & Latin files. The exact path to my files is as follows:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Audition 2.0\Content\Loopology\Lounge&Latin2\Heavy_Bossa_Nova_77BP M\Uptempo_Bossa_Drum 1 and 08

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED]

Step 2

Choose the drums first. It is easier to...