How to turn off LOOPING & Beat mapping in ACID PRO's Explorer

Evan-MMorris wrote on 11/17/2025, 7:51 AM

I'm using ACID PRO: 11.0.2 (Build 21) 64 bit.

I am desperately looking for a way to either turn off loop playback and / or Beat matching and / or stretching of audio sample playback in the Explorer.

Like every other ACID PRO user, I am simply trying to listen to and choose samples to use within my song. However, I can't tell how they actually sound because whenever I open the ACID PRO EXPLORER, the audio samples are clearly, being stretched, distorted and beat mapped to match the tempo of the current project.
I want to say that I understand why ACID PRO has this as their default... but what I DO NOT understand is that there is apparently, no immediate available property settings for turning this feature off! For example, when I am trying to select various, on-shot drum samples such as a snare, kick or crash samples, the last thing I want is to have them sounding "stretched" or distorted in any other way. Turning off loop playback within the project doesn't in any way affect the explorer, which still keeps stretching and distorting all the samples with loop playback. I remember back when ACID was owned by Sonic Foundry, the only audio files that would nativerly play in a loop were the acid files that were intended to be layered as looping blocks. Otherwise, you could TOTALLY turn this property off in the explorer settings. Now, this type of property control seems to have been removed or relocated, and it's becoming a bit frustrating.

So then... does ANYONE have ANY IDEA how to turn this feature off?

Thanks,

- Evan

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PATIENT-X wrote on 11/17/2025, 11:25 AM

Hello welcome

Reviewing samples in explorer does not automatically beat map the sample.

Try these steps, yes it's time consuming.

Right-click the clip in the track.
Select Clip Properties.
In the dialog that appears, change the Acid type dropdown menu.
Choose One-shot to disable both looping and beatmapping.
Click OK. 

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Evan-MMorris wrote on 11/17/2025, 2:48 PM

Hello welcome

Reviewing samples in explorer does not automatically beat map the sample.

Try these steps, yes it's time consuming.

Right-click the clip in the track.
Select Clip Properties.
In the dialog that appears, change the Acid type dropdown menu.
Choose One-shot to disable both looping and beatmapping.
Click OK. 

Stephen

Thanks for your response, but yeah I understand how to do this already. My issue (as an example) is when I am digging through a folder of a hundred different snare samples and I need to hear the absolute differences between each sample, but I can't tell because for some reason, the Acid Explorer's playback is distorting the sound of every snare drum sample because it's stretching them out or speeding them up. I just want the Acid Explorer to play individual samples like these, only as they actually are, not stretched or distorted or whatever. So then, it sounds like there's no way to get the Acid Explorer to just play samples normally?