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Slicing a sample across the keys

On a drum sampler track, cuts that key's sample into slices spread over the keyboard — at its transients, into equal parts, or where you tap.

Slicing turns one recording into a playable kit. Transient suits drums with clear hits, even suits loops cut to the grid, and tap marks musical phrases by ear while the sample plays.

How to

Slice a drum loop at its hits

before you start the loop is on a key of a drum sampler track · M1 page

  1. 1 hold the key with the loop
  2. 2 transient
  3. 3 number of slices

Details

  • Slice mode arrived in OS 1.1.0.

    TE’s changelog
  • On a drum sampler track, opens the slicer for that key's sample.

    TE’s guide
  • chooses the mode: transient, even or tap.

    TE’s guide
  • The slices fill the keyboard on their own and choke each other, so one slice sounds at a time.

    TE’s guide
  • With one slice per key, a sample gives at most 24 slices.

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  • Transient mode cuts at the loudest hits; sets how many slices, and after pressing a slice's key and move its start and end.

    TE’s guide
  • Even mode splits a section into equal parts; and set where the section starts and ends, the count.

    TE’s guide
  • In tap mode, tap to start the sample and again wherever a slice should begin; stops and lets the last slice run to the end.

    TE’s guide
  • In tap mode, press a slice's key and to move its start (the previous slice's end); deletes that slice.

    TE’s guide
  • The slicer screen offers cancel and done; which keys they sit on is not documented.

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Our wording, for OS 1.1.33. TE’s page source

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