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Yes i read the manual, but could not locate anything that refered to this in particular, and yes i used the search function, but could not find an answer to my question so here it goes. Is there anyway to have a one shot not be affected by tempo whats so ever. kind of like in Acid where youset it to a show, an no matter what the tempo is, it will not affect it. I ask b/c i have some vocal samples that I want to use during a performance, but they are like movie quotes, and what not, but I do not wan the tempo to apply to them?. hmmmmmmmmm if anyone can help it would be greatly apreciated
thank you

I assume you mean you don't want the tempo to affect the pitch of the sample.

Yeah 2 ways to do it.

Make the one-shots into clips and switch warping off.

Just load the sample into simpler and trigger with a midi controller or sequence the shots at the correct pitch note.

Duhhhhhhhh. I should of thought of that. I am a newbie, but should of known that. Thank you very much

No problemo

You could also load the samples into an Impulse and save some screen room.

out of curiousity does anyone know if loading large samples (like a movie clip that he was talking about) into impulse... is that more cpu intensive than loading it into session as an audio? or is it the same? say... if I load a 2 minute wav into impulse and a 2 minute wav into session as an audio clip are they equal on the cpu?

that sounds so sketchy I know...

johnisfaster,
yes it uses more cpu to use impulse, but just a little more. and it also depends on which warp setting you are using.
where as an audio clip is playing back just the audio through an audio channel and through the master, the same audio in Impulse is going through an envelope which requires more cpu.

but you are right that it sounds sketchy.
it would be useless to play back a 2 minute audio file in impulse.
Impulse's decay envelope only goes up to 10 seconds, so all you would hear is 10 seconds of the file. (really more like 6 seconds at full volume, and then the rest is faded out). Furthermore you can only adjust the start point by 0ms to 100ms, so it really is suited for single shots mainly.

Simpler would be more suited for long files, but it also contains an ADSR envelope so it will use more cpu than just playing the audio back from a plain clip.
However, even then Simpler's decay is at 60 seconds. you'd only hear half of a 2 minute audio file.

AdamJay wrote: but you are right that it sounds sketchy.
it would be useless to play back a 2 minute audio file in impulse.
Impulse's decay envelope only goes up to 10 seconds, so all you would hear is 10 seconds of the file.

Can't you set Impulse in gate mode? That way (I guess?) you bypass the amp envelope.