Re: slicing audio

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Hey Nick, why not try slicing a stream instead of a file? Ableton Live
would be the excellent tool for that! This technique is based setting
up MIDI clips as "slicer templates". Then you send the signal
somewhere to be recorded but on the way it should be routed through
some object (volume, noise gate, filer cut-off... there are many
options) that is being manipulated by the Slicer Template MIDI clip.
You can then assign the Slicer MIDI Clips to pedals or computer keys
and play them in realtime to mess with the slicing.  If you are using
a Mac you can send any track's MIDI output to the IAC Bus and have
that fetched as the input to another track where the MIDI events are
MIDI learned to manipulate certain slicing objects.

If you don't already know about "Clip Envelopes" you should also check
that out in the manual.

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Nick <ParadoxQuine@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> I've been trying my darndest to slice short samples out of tracks in
> ableton live and well...every method I know is terrible. I'm currently
> using the method described in the tutorial where I drag the file to
> the arrangement view and then zoom in and position the start and end
> points of the clip or the loop and then repeat until I get it right.
> The problem with this method for me is that it's slow and clumsy - I
> see no reason why I shouldn't be able to zoom in a bit (in the sample
> editor in session view), select the area I want, select a menu item or
> similar and poof - there's a new sample that I can drag into impulse.
> If someone could point me in the right direction for learning how to
> do this in live (perhaps a good tutorial site), that would be great.
>
> However, if the process really does require dragging clips to arrange
> view and zooming in repeatedly and positioning markets, I'd much
> rather get a plugin or other program to do my splicing with - is
> Propellerheads' Recycle still good? If not, any alternative
> recommendations would be much appreciated. I'd prefer to do it all in
> live if possible though.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>