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Can this be done within Ableton 4? If so where do I go to do it and what tool do I use?

Thanks

- place your clip in the arrange grid

- select the clip. CTRL-L to snap your brackets around the clip. open the view for that track by clicking on the little down arroow

- zoom in on the clip horizontally; pull down on the divider on the right hand side to zoom in vertically

- now you should see your clip and the waveform nice and large on the grid ready to work on

- clik in the waveform view to set your cursor where you want to split. the tighter you are zoomed the tighter you can make your edits.

- CTRL-E to split the clip at that point. you can also select an area of the clip, the CTRL-E, and this will make a three way split

- cut, copy, past, duplicate.. whatever you need to do to get the edits you want

- CTRL-J to consolidate your work to a new clip

- bring this back over to session view to play on the grid
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this can also be done in session view. Or even with impulse. Just make multiple copies of the clip you want to chop, and then use the clip region/loop start bracket to choose the part of the sample you want to play, and where you want it to end. Then either assign keys or pads from your midi controller to each piece, or drag the pieces to impulse and then bang out a new melody/bassline/whatever from the chopped up pieces.

easy as easy gets!