To really cut tight loops on the ESX, all you need to know is the bpm and the table below.
To cut loops, press 'sample'-button, and press 'down' to enter the start- and end-samples.
Holding shift shows the major number, and releasing it shows the minor number.
So if you resample 1 bar at 120 bpm, 88200 nsamples becomes '00088' during shiftmode, and '88200' when releasing shift.
NOTE: when resampling on the ESX, it adds 1240 samples of silence in the beginning. So press 'sample', down, and set start to 1240 and truncate it before applying the table below.
The 'download'-button gives a printable pdf of a subset of the table below:
bpm 1beat 4beats (=1bar)
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1 2646000 10584000
2 1323000 5292000
3 882000 3528000
4 661500 2646000
5 529200 2116800
6 441000 1764000
7 378000 1512000
8 330750 1323000
9 294000 1176000
10 264600 1058400
11 240545 962180
12 220500 882000
13 203538 814152
14 189000 756000
15 176400 705600
16 165375 661500
17 155647 622588
18 147000 588000
19 139263 557052
20 132300 529200
21 126000 504000
22 120273 481092
23 115043 460172
24 110250 441000
25 105840 423360
26 101769 407076
27 98000 392000
28 94500 378000
29 91241 364964
30 88200 352800
31 85355 341420
32 82688 330752
33 80182 320728
34 77824 311296
35 75600 302400
36 73500 294000
37 71514 286056
38 69632 278528
39 67846 271384
40 66150 264600
41 64537 258148
42 63000 252000
43 61535 246140
44 60136 240544
45 58800 235200
46 57522 230088
47 56298 225192
48 55125 220500
49 54000 216000
50 52920 211680
51 51882 207528
52 50885 203540
53 49925 199700
54 49000 196000
55 48109 192436
56 47250 189000
57 46421 185684
58 45621 182484
59 44847 179388
60 44100 176400
61 43377 173508
62 42677 170708
63 42000 168000
64 41344 165376
65 40708 162832
66 40091 160364
67 39493 157972
68 38912 155648
69 38348 153392
70 37800 151200
71 37268 149072
72 36750 147000
73 36247 144988
74 35757 143028
75 35280 141120
76 34816 139264
77 34364 137456
78 33923 135692
79 33494 133976
80 33075 132300
81 32667 130668
82 32268 129072
83 31880 127520
84 31500 126000
85 31129 124516
86 30767 123068
87 30414 121656
88 30068 120272
89 29730 118920
90 29400 117600
91 29077 116308
92 28761 115044
93 28452 113808
94 28149 112596
95 27853 111412
96 27563 110252
97 27278 109112
98 27000 108000
99 26727 106908
100 26460 105840
101 26198 104792
102 25941 103764
103 25689 102756
104 25442 101768
105 25200 100800
106 24962 99848
107 24729 98916
108 24500 98000
109 24275 97100
110 24055 96220
111 23838 95352
112 23625 94500
113 23416 93664
114 23211 92844
115 23009 92036
116 22810 91240
117 22615 90460
118 22424 89696
119 22235 88940
120 22050 88200
121 21868 87472
122 21689 86756
123 21512 86048
124 21339 85356
125 21168 84672
126 21000 84000
127 20835 83340
128 20672 82688
129 20512 82048
130 20354 81416
131 20198 80792
132 20045 80180
133 19895 79580
134 19746 78984
135 19600 78400
136 19456 77824
137 19314 77256
138 19174 76696
139 19036 76144
140 18900 75600
141 18766 75064
142 18634 74536
143 18503 74012
144 18375 73500
145 18248 72992
146 18123 72492
147 18000 72000
148 17878 71512
149 17758 71032
150 17640 70560
151 17523 70092
152 17408 69632
153 17294 69176
154 17182 68728
155 17071 68284
156 16962 67848
157 16854 67416
158 16747 66988
159 16642 66568
160 16538 66152
161 16435 65740
162 16333 65332
163 16233 64932
164 16134 64536
165 16036 64144
166 15940 63760
167 15844 63376
168 15750 63000
169 15657 62628
170 15565 62260
171 15474 61896
172 15384 61536
173 15295 61180
174 15207 60828
175 15120 60480
176 15034 60136
177 14949 59796
178 14865 59460
179 14782 59128
180 14700 58800
181 14619 58476
182 14538 58152
183 14459 57836
184 14380 57520
185 14303 57212
186 14226 56904
187 14150 56600
188 14074 56296
189 14000 56000
190 13926 55704
191 13853 55412
192 13781 55124
193 13710 54840
194 13639 54556
195 13569 54276
196 13500 54000
197 13431 53724
198 13364 53456
199 13296 53184
200 13230 52920
201 13164 52656
202 13099 52396
203 13034 52136
204 12971 51884
205 12907 51628
206 12845 51380
207 12783 51132
208 12721 50884
209 12660 50640
210 12600 50400
211 12540 50160
212 12481 49924
213 12423 49692
214 12364 49456
215 12307 49228
216 12250 49000
217 12194 48776
218 12138 48552
219 12082 48328
source calculation for table above
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length of loop in samples = ( (60/bpm) * beats ) * samplerate
so: ( (60/120) * 4 ) * 44100 = 88200 samples
bpm to millseconds = ( 60000/bpm ) * 4
so: ( 60000/120 ) * 4 = 2000 ms )
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