J. Anthony Allen shows how to use audio warping in a DAW to break loops apart creatively. Stretch a loop to double its length, extend a kick drum across two beats, turn off the metronome and work off-grid. The weird results are the point.
Now, so far, we've been talking about how to get your loops sounding perfectly on the beat. But you can do the opposite for fun, too. Using the same technique called warping, you can make these weirder. For example, I'm going to move all these, remove all these warp markers by double clicking on them. And then let's do something weird, like maybe stretch this out to be twice as long.
Put this right there, but that right there. And then squeeze that right there.
Now we're gonna have some weird sounding stuff here.
Let's turn the metronome off. Kind of like that.
So don't be afraid to just get really weird with some of these.
And, you know, watch this.
Now I'm gonna stretch out that first kick to be two beats long.
That's kind of awesome. The only downside is that this, like, gives me a weird little hiccup right here. There we go.
So you can really get creative with the way that you're organizing this. If you don't, if you want to just go totally off the grid and really stretch things out to be wildly different than they were intended to be. So there is, like, a sound design and creative component of warping here. So in other words, like, get weird
with it and you can have some fun.
