Available loops in MMM MX?

adorna50 wrote on 3/16/2012, 2:37 AM

After picking something from the soundpool, like Movie scores, then hovering over an instrument, I get a white box that says there are X amount of loops available. I get this for every instrument. I want to get them into the program but haven't a clue where they are. Are they in the main program? Basic 18? Part of the 2000+ sounds files I had to download? Part of the Soundpool 17 DVD that came with my purchase? Where do I go to find them? I am using a boxed, not downloaded, full version of Magix Music Maker MX that came with the Soundpool 17 dvd.

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adorna50 wrote on 3/16/2012, 11:18 PM

Let me answer my own question by pasting in a reply to someone else's in case anyone else is having this simple and misunderstood question. I was missing 14 loops for one instrument and showing 2. As you'll see in the explanation below, 2 times 7 is 14. I was missing nothing. Thank you Procyon for the explanation.

 

Procyon answered at 2012-02-10 06:53 PM

     

"how did I screw up?"

I don't think you did.  There's an important "technicality" you're not taking into account.

When you look at the media pool, there are seven numbered bars.  Each bar represents a variation (different key, etc.) for most (but not all) of the soundpool objects.  So, what you're missing is that there are (usually) seven versions of the same item in the media pool.  3500 divided by 559 equals 6.26, which is just short of seven, which would be about right.