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Need Help: Sample Editor playhead and selection question

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:17 am
by ozinga
Need help with the sample editor window
?s there a way to start the playback in the sample editor from a specific point of the wave?
When I click to locate I only get blue triangle and the file plays from the start no matter what. I want to select a point and want the waveorm start playing at that point every time I start until I change the selection. I also want to highlight a selection and play just that part and if possible drag and drop the selection to a new track. Like selecting a snare hit and dragging it to a new track. Is the arrange page the only option for these?
I hope I was clear. Basically looking for a simple selecting auditioning and editing functions in the sample editor.
Thanks
Oz

Re: Need Help: Sample Editor playhead and selection question

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:54 pm
by pottering
Yeah, for that you need to edit in Arrangement View.

Live doesn't really edit the samples (the original samples never get touched in Live), only the Clips, and you can't edit/split Clips in Session.

In Session View, one way is duping the Clip (ctrl+D, ctrl+drag, copypaste, etc.), then you simply select the part you want in the dupe and hit ctrl+L.

It is a inverted order, but almost the same. "Dupe clip > select> cut" instead of "select> cut > dupe clip".

Re: Need Help: Sample Editor playhead and selection question

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:01 pm
by pottering
For drum loops you can just use Simpler. Why even slice and place snares one by one?

Re: Need Help: Sample Editor playhead and selection question

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 2:22 am
by ozinga
pottering wrote:For drum loops you can just use Simpler. Why even slice and place snares one by one?

Thanks for the reply.
That is how I do it normally with loops short files etc (Simpler)
But today I imported a long file with mixed stuff in it to an audio track and tried if I could do some chopping, extracting etc in the edit window. Need to keep in mind the difference between the actual audio file and a clip.
Best
Oz