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Lunch Money's BeatSlicing Tutorial [HERE] 2005-10-04T15:27:57+00:00 THIS POST IS ACTUALLY BY LUNCH MONEY! :) Notes to follow, and an audio file in OGG format pinned to the bottom of this post! On a recent KvR thread, I gave some advice on using Tracktion as a beatslicer. To be honest, I hadn't done it myself, but I figured that since everything I wrote was a function or 'fact' of Tracktion use, that it would work. BUT... there's nothing like practical experience, so I decided to give it a go and see if it was truly as 'easy' as I thought it would be. A few points before I get into the description and play-by-play: - Ultimately, I wasn't trying to prove that you don't 'need' ACID-like functionality, but rather that it wasn't the end of the world to not have it. - It WAS a pretty quick process. The first time I tried it, I clocked 8:58 from the moment of importing the loop (which would be something you'd need to do in ANY program, so it was moot) to the moment I pressed "play" on the sliced version and heard successful results. - The second attempt, which is documented below, actually took a bit longer, coming in at 12:08. I did stop the watch for screenshots, so that's not factored in and I can't use it as an excuse. So, it's pretty safe to say that you should be able to construct a 1-measure beat in around 10 minutes, even if you're not familiar with the tools used. I wasn't, after all! Like many things in Tracktion, it was just intuition. - Related to the above: 10 minutes for a simple one-measure is really too much if you're planning on just using the unaltered beats (ie. not re-arranging). In the time it took me to slice a simple one-measure beat (simple as in not very complex), I have arranged entire drum tracks. - On the other hand, you simply don't always have the right loops. The precise control of the loops you DO have is pretty cool. [edit: I've added a brief couple notes on how to do it with only Audio. Since it's actually just stopping part-way through and not going on to the Sampler, it wasn't too tricky. Should've done it the first time, but I had the 'sampler method' on the brain. I DO prefer the sampler method, but the 'remap clips' function is something that many people overlook, including myself!] OK, continuing on... hrm... I'll do it in a separate post to ease my personal sense of organization and for no other reason-- Download example .ogg file haydxn https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=12528

Lunch Money Lunch Money https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=9418: KVRAF; 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada

Post by Lunch Money » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:31 pm

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THIS IS JOHN VULICH'S POST:

Can you please post a tutorial on how to post as somebody else?

PS Cool Beans, dry bones.

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