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i am looking for a software that is chopping up beats and exporting the slices so that i can load them into my battery 3. ni says kotnakt2 is doing that but i can't make it work. everybody tells me to use recycle. now i think 200eur is a lot of money for this feature. any alternatives?
thnx,
lars.

Fruity loops Juice pack, has some decent effects but the edison sample editor that comes with it is worth the price of the whole thing all by itself, edison is a great slicer

Drop your sample into Arrangement View & chop it up w/ ctrl-E.
Drag the chunks into a sampler.

audiofinder can import and export rex2 files, but its mac only, but only $70

funny,
of course i know how to chop a sample. i was having a time stretch thing in my mind...
cheers,
lars.

Well Recycle basically splits the audio into segments, and then triggers it in relation to time via midi notes. So it isn't actually time-stretching anything.

So the ctrl+e in the arrangement view and then importing those clips into Impulse or sampler or whatever, is exactly the same process that recycle does. Recycle just automates it.

Automates it... and in my experience gets it wrong most of the time. I've always preferred doing that stuff by hand.

ok, i know about recycle. but i wanna use my slices in battery3. and the so called beat mode -which does time stretch in a very convenient way- only works with apple loops, or recycle kind of files. now i try to do it with apple loops utility...

Laurentius,

you on a Mac or PC ? .... if you are on a Mac or have access to one, Apple has a thing called Apple Loops Utility. Pretty much works like Recycle although not quite as fancy ... Battery 3 reads and plays apple loops quite well on both Mac and PC.


The only draw back I've found with ALU is that the loops should have their starts and ends as clean and close as possible .... then ALU will do the rest to splice and dice in between ...

Best,

C-

Sorry not paying attention today ... you beat me to it already!


-C

thanks for the hint. here comes something strange: with logic ALU comes as soundtrack loop utility and this works well (creates apple loops which could be read by battery). but on my macbook i dont have that one - i have ALU. its almost the same software but in my case it doesnt create apple loops. now i copied the SLU and it works....weird.
anyway, thanks for your effort. i will continue using apple loops eventhough its so unconvenient to be not able to cut samples...
cheers,
lars.

Someone already said it, but audiofinder is what you want i reckon. 70 bucks. There is a free version too but I don't think it exports rex. the pay version lets you slice and export though.

Battery 3 + Apple Loop Utility is all you need.