Sample Chopping in Live 9

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James Two
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Sample Chopping in Live 9

Post by James Two » Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:43 pm

Has anyone else noticed that when you chop a sample in Live 9 the resulting drum rack with the samples is crazy loud? Like stupid loud. Even though the volume has been decreased -6db the chops come out WAY louder than the original sample. Am I being an idiot?

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Re: Sample Chopping in Live 9

Post by yur2die4 » Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:09 pm

It depends on your slicing preset and velocity settings also.

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Re: Sample Chopping in Live 9

Post by James Two » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:11 am

I'm using the same preset and velocity setting as before in Live 8. Its a basic custom MPC style slicing preset. I don't know what the problem but the resulting chop end up at -6db and still are waaaayyyyyyy in the red. Like blow your speakers type red. I don't understand what the difference is.

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Re: Sample Chopping in Live 9

Post by geekbeats » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:26 am

I haven't tested your exact issue, is it a preset you had saved in Live 8 and moved over? I'm curious to see how it would act if you created the preset inside 9 and saved it.

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Re: Sample Chopping in Live 9

Post by James Two » Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:56 am

I figured it out. It was a velocity problem. My slicing preset has the velocity at 0. And when I chop in Live 8 is stays that way. However in Live 9 it changes it to 100. I tried remaking the preset in 9 with the velocity at 0 but it still changes it to 100 when I actually slice the sample. Is there a way to fix this aside from manually?

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Re: Sample Chopping in Live 9

Post by geekbeats » Sun Mar 17, 2013 4:28 am

James Two wrote:I figured it out. It was a velocity problem. My slicing preset has the velocity at 0. And when I chop in Live 8 is stays that way. However in Live 9 it changes it to 100. I tried remaking the preset in 9 with the velocity at 0 but it still changes it to 100 when I actually slice the sample. Is there a way to fix this aside from manually?

I'll check my slicing preset to see if it behaves the same.

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