DJ Your Loop Is Going out of Time Because!

0:00 How sometimes why two loops won't

Right, I've got a couple of loops here and I want to show you how sometimes why two loops won't sync together perfectly. Now first of all, let me give you an analogy. Imagine we've got two farmers. Farmer one on my right hand side, farmer two on my left hand side. And we're in a country lane in the middle. Exactly to the right and to the left of us, the farmer on each side plants a post The one on the right has a distance between each post of, say, two metres and one centimetre. The one on the left has a distance between two posts of two metres. That's it! Right, so over time what's going to happen is the poles are going to slightly drift apart from being directly opposite to each other. Simply because the farmer on the right has put his posts in two metres and one centimetre.

1:00 Will be at the same position

So the first one will be at the same position. The second one will be one centimetre in front of the other one. The third one will be two, three, four and so on. Now let me demonstrate that with two loops. Have a listen. There's one. Let's have a listen to the other. Now, couple of things here. Firstly this loop is slightly out of time. And secondly you can actually hear it's out of time. It's almost like a double click. There. There. Right, let's start them at the same time. Now what I want you to do is look at the wave format. Now slowly what will happen is the bottom loop will seem to start to move to the right. Where the loop actually starts on both of them at the moment is exactly in the same position.

2:09 It's almost as though it's moving a lot quicker than the other one

But slowly but surely as the loop progresses what will happen is the bottom loop will seem to sort of step forward. It's almost as though it's moving a lot quicker than the other one. That isn't the case. What's happening is it's just losing time. It is in a way moving quicker because it's gaining more distance. Now this is why it's very important to make sure that you have, if you have two loops running together they are snapped exactly in time. And of course that's where, if you're using the likes of Rekordbox and any Pioneer kit, that's where the Quantize feature comes in very handy. So let's press play on both decks at the same time. Here we go. Demonstration for you there. I hope that's been a help.

Thank you very much for watching, practice and enjoy.

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