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I'm trying to create drum racks filled with one-shots sampled from VSTs or Live's plugins.

I have audio routed from an instrument's midi track to an audio track. After I've recorded a new audio clip I typically need to adjust the start marker in the clip's sample display or after dragging it to Sampler (unless I get lucky and press record and a key at exactly the same time).

Is there a better technique to get the proper start time?

Should the end marker also be placed exactly?

Do I want to crop the Sample?

Other suggestions?

Thanks,

Kevin

I am no expert let me say that first.

If I understand what you are saying correctly, you could:

1. Record audio in clip view
2. Zoom in up close and get the audio you want (maybe a little extra too)
3. Drag to a pad in drum rack
4. With simpler or sampler adjust the start and end point

I find it's always better to take a little too much and edit later because you can't replace what's not there but you can always trim.

Does that make sense or help you?

(I hope so)

how about

1. record all stabs into one long clip
2. set warp markers at the start of each stab (ignore how the warping sounds for now)
3. slice by warp markers

Yep that's the way I've done it so far. I was curious if anyone knew of shortcuts or tricks to accomplish steps 2 and 4 automatically?

Thanks

longjohns wrote:how about

1. record all stabs into one long clip
2. set warp markers at the start of each stab (ignore how the warping sounds for now)
3. slice by warp markers

When I attempt to do this exact thing:

Zoom into the area I want
Crop the sample (from say 45 bars to a total of 12 bars)
Slice to Midi track

I get a message saying it's over 128 slices and I need to shorten the length or pick another slicing method.

It seems like it still thinks the clip is it's original length of 45 bars.

Any suggestions or ideas of what I may be doing incorrectly?
I tried every possible search combination on the forum and finally found this thread.

it sounds funny... but if you tried to slice it down to 16th its no wonder because 12 bars will end up in 192 slices. have you tried to crop the audio to 1 bar and still got the same message?

Thanks for the reply!

I did test that and it lowered the slices. I suppose my eyes were playing tricks on me. I expected it to be a lot fewer based on how it looked vs. how many bars there actually are...

What I was thinking of doing is copying it to another clip and then cropping even more of it, this should allow me to create a type of virtual workspace on different sections of the overall file.