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Included VST Instruments

LoopMash

Random Selection

Move this slider to the right to allow more variation when selecting slices for

playback, adding a more random feel to the selection process. This setting

affects all tracks of this scene.

Selection Grid

Determines how often LoopMash looks for similar slices during playback: always

(left position), or only every 2nd, 4th, or 8th (right position) step. For example, if

you set the Selection Grid to every 8th step (right position), LoopMash replaces

similar slices every 8th step. Between two replacement steps it plays back

the tracks of the slices that have been selected in the last replacement step,

resulting in longer playback sequences on one track.

Similarity Method

Here, you can modify the criteria that LoopMash considers when comparing the

slices for similarity. There are three similarity methods:

• Standard – This is the standard method, where all slices on all tracks are

compared and various characteristics regarding rhythm, tempo, spectrum,

etc. are taken into account.

• Relative – This method does not only consider the overall similarity of all

slices on all tracks, but also takes the relation to the other slices on the

same track into account. For example, LoopMash can replace the loudest,

lowest sound on one track with the loudest, lowest sound on another track.

• Harmonic – This method only takes the analyzed tonal information into

account, so that a slice is replaced by a harmonically similar slice, rather

than by a rhythmically similar slice. With this method, also the track

transposition value is considered, that is, a master slice with a C major

chord is not replaced by a slice with a D major chord. But it is replaced if

you set the transposition value of the track of the slice with the D major

chord to -2. It is advisable to keep the similarity gain sliders in a low

position when you work with this method, because otherwise you may

produce disharmonies. You can modify the transposition values to play

back more slices of a specific track.