Slice to midi with a single Simpler?

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Myopic
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Slice to midi with a single Simpler?

Post by Myopic » Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:14 pm

I'm wondering if I am missing something obvious. Most of the time I slice a loop to midi, I want (to start with, anyway) a single Simper. I've tried making a slicing preset that does this, but I've not been able to work it out.

My current workflow for this is to load a loop into a Simpler in slice mode - slice to midi track - which creates a whole new track/drum-rack with each slice in its own Simpler and a midi clip. I then need to drag the midi clip from this new track back to my original single simpler track, then delete this newly created track. Which seems like too many steps.

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Re: Slice to midi with a single Simpler?

Post by wearemindflux » Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:27 pm

All you need to do is drop the sample in simpler in slice mode
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Re: Slice to midi with a single Simpler?

Post by Myopic » Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:32 pm

That slices, but it does not create the midi clip.

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Re: Slice to midi with a single Simpler?

Post by silversurfer60 » Fri Oct 05, 2018 4:20 pm

You can do it with sampler, create a default sampler, rename it to e.g. single sampler, save it in the default slicing preset list. Rightclick on your lopp/sample, create slice to midi and choose in the drop down menue your single sampler preset.

With simpler it doesn't work, but you can skip your first step: loading a loop into simpler is not necessary. Rightclick on your loop/sample and create slice to midi.

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Re: Slice to midi with a single Simpler?

Post by wearemindflux » Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:21 pm

Myopic wrote:That slices, but it does not create the midi clip.
Ok I get yah, sorry did not realise you wanted the clip to. Yeah you would need to do it with sampler
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Re: Slice to midi with a single Simpler?

Post by Myopic » Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:59 am

Thanks for the replies. I guess my ultimate solution is to wait until Sampler gets all of the slicing and warping that simpler has. *fingers crossed* :D

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Re: Slice to midi with a single Simpler?

Post by wearemindflux » Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:48 pm

or wait until simpler can be used as a slicer default/preset

which I would think would come sooner.
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