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Sample a loop and play it in slices
On a drum track, record a loop onto its top key from the page, then hold that key and press to cut it into even slices that spread over the keyboard and choke each other, ready to replay in a new order.
Slicing turns a recording into an instrument: once the loop is spread over the keys, step-enter the slices in a new order, repeat the kick slice, or play the hits live against the original loop on E5. Even slices keep the loop's timing grid, so a straight beat cut into sixteenths lines up with the sequencer's steps; tap mode suits phrases that do not sit on a grid.
How to
Record a loop onto the drum track's top key
before you start the loop plays into line in
- 1 the drum track and its top key
- 2 the record page, recording onto E5
- 3 line in
- 4 a low threshold, around 10
- 5 start the loop playing, and let go once it has played through
E5 holds the loop; `M2` plays the take back.
Cut the loop into sixteen even slices
- 1 hold the loop's key; the slicer opens on it
- 2 even
- 3 sixteen slices
- 4 done (on the replica; press the key your screen labels done)
Sixteen keys play the loop's sixteenths in order, each cutting off the one before; E5 still plays the whole loop.
Details
- TE’s guide
Slicing is the drum sampler's, and a new project has drum kits on and .
- TE’s guide
On a drum track the record page records onto the selected key; press the key first, then .
- TE’s guide
On the record page picks the source (the built-in mic, line in or USB), the gain and the threshold.
- worked out
Holding arms the recorder and the take begins once the input passes the threshold, so a low threshold catches the loop's first hit.
- TE’s guide
Holding a key and pressing opens the slicer on that key's sample.
- worked out
Even mode splits the sample into equal parts and sets how many; sixteen suits a one-bar loop cut into sixteenths.
- TE’s guide
The slices spread over the keyboard and choke each other, so one slice sounds at a time, as in a chopped break.
- worked out
The replica fills the keys from the lowest, F3, upward (the guide says only that the slices fill the keyboard), so a loop kept on the top key, E5, stays whole there for up to 23 slices.
- worked out
The slicer offers cancel and done, which the guide does not place on keys; the replica puts done on and cancel on .
- worked out
For a drum loop with clear hits, transient mode cuts at the loudest ones instead; a sample with fewer hits gives fewer slices than
E4asks for.