A free seamless loop - Rock Guitar

[Corey]

This one's a bit heavy so it's not for everyone but it's appropriate for some stuff. Perfect for a background in a menu related to a monster truck pull. It's royalty free and perfectly seamless so it can be looped. Also the guitars are panned almost hard left and right so there's room in the center for narration, i.e. "M-M-Monster T-T-Truck P-P-Pull M-M-Madness!!!" It's nothing great but I thought I'd post it anyhow. Will loop seamlessly in AMS or Flash.

[rhosk]

Rock on...

Just for info Corey, mp3's will never loop seamlessly, especially in Flash (well, occasionally some will, if the break at the end of the loop is part of the effect). There's an odd phenomenon that occurs when compressing and about a half second of silence is always added to the file, which in turn, burps as it's played via a loop.

It's no big deal for me, if I really want the loop I edit the silence out, convert it to wav, then import to Flash. Just puttin' it out there so everyone knows

[Corey]

How about as .ogg?

[rhosk]

ogg's seem to have the same problem, although not as severe. Keep in mind that some loops will work if they're meant to gap/hesitate - hard to explain. They're just not 'truly' seamless. This is why, in AMS, some of the supplied music loops work, some don't.

And conversely, the only software that I know of that will convert from [source] to mp3 seamlessly is Flash which I've always found remarkable.

[azmanar]

ogg's seem to have the same problem, although not as severe. Keep in mind that some loops will work if they're meant to gap/hesitate - hard to explain. They're just not 'truly' seamless. This is why, in AMS, some of the supplied music loops work, some don't.

And conversely, the only software that I know of that will convert from [source] to mp3 seamlessly is Flash which I've always found remarkable.

Thanx for the tip ...Ron.

[stickck]

Rock on...

Just for info Corey, mp3's will never loop seamlessly, especially in Flash (well, occasionally some will, if the break at the end of the loop is part of the effect). There's an odd phenomenon that occurs when compressing and about a half second of silence is always added to the file, which in turn, burps as it's played via a loop.

It's no big deal for me, if I really want the loop I edit the silence out, convert it to wav, then import to Flash. Just puttin' it out there so everyone knows

i was wondering why i was able to get a seamless loop from a file i was editing in Nero wave editor but as soon as i saved it as MP3, it had a small silent area at the end.

NOW I KNOW.

Thanks Ron!

chris

[Corey]

Loops seamlessly in any audio software so I don't think it's the compression. Programs like ACID use mp3 all the time without any problem. Anyhoo the .wav tip is good, thanks...

[rhosk]

Loops seamlessly in any audio software so I don't think it's the compression. Programs like ACID use mp3 all the time without any problem. Anyhoo the .wav tip is good, thanks...

I meant compressing to mp3 (didn't really mean compression in general). I tried this particular loop in Flash, doesn't work.

[Corey]

You're right. This stupid software inserted a stupid gap there for some stupid reason. Incredibly frustrating, I'll try to figure this out later, I'm trashing my studio right now. Anyhow just know, that's not a product of anything on your end, this is 100% my software subverting my interests.

[Corey]

OK. I see what happened here. I own audition 1.5, have for years. Typically I use that to convert .wav to .mp3. I had recently tried the 2.0 trial but I decided it wasn't worth an upgrade so I uninstalled it. Somehow that process has corrupted version 1.5 so it's doing funky new things I don't want it to do. Anyhow that appears to be the source of this mysterious gap. Bah. I'll re-install it later and re-export this thing.

[rhosk]

Corey, I think that mp3 conversion, no matter what software, will insert the gap, just the nature of the beast. Don't pull your hair out over it Took me a long time to figure it out a few years ago, which frustated me as well. No idea why it has to do that (I'm sure there's a logical reason)...