KVR Audio

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:32 pm

Is there a program to automatically export single waveforms from a waveform consisting of many one shot waveforms with a few milliseconds of silence between them, done by sensing the silence and automatically slicing where the silence ends and begins? I wish to export the 1-shot samples from the large all-one-shots file as individual files automatically. For file name a simple linear export with auto-increment would be fine : drums01.wav through drums80.wav for example.

The one-shot waveforms are drum hits I have recorded from my Roland XP-60 keyboard (I created a piano roll to capture them all and recorded the resulting audio in realtime). I want to do this so that I am free to use the samples in sampler plug-ins and not solely relying on MIDI and keyboard audio outputs.

I have to believe that I am not the first person to try this trick, and someone has already built something to do this? Any help is appreciated.

TIA

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:38 pm

http://www.spacetaxi.de/sf/waveknife.html

Spe3D · Post by **Spe3D** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:40 pm

SoundForge

WaveLab

And Zero-X beat creator will have a slice to wave option - the two editors are better for adding silence to the start and end of samples that are sliced.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:47 pm

jupiter8 wrote:http://www.spacetaxi.de/sf/waveknife.html

Perfect. Thanks.

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:21 pm

spooky, I was just looking for something to do this

M'Snah · Post by **M'Snah** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:27 pm

Then you can use waveknife as well

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birrbits · Post by **birrbits** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:20 pm

Zero-X Beatcreator

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:39 pm

birrbits wrote:Zero-X Beatcreator

Definitely my copy of beat slicer can do what I was trying but WaveKnife worked actually better than beat slicer, and is free.

In beat slicer, no matter what adjustments I made, the auto slicer incessantly screwed up the slices in subtle ways; the first slice (pure silence -> transient) was fine -- but the fade outs and the next transients, were not fine. In fact the end slice marker always included like 1ms of the next slice so a small pop was introduced in some of the slices. I played with the settings in several ways and nothing helped solve this.

However, WaveKnife worked perfectly, if even a little too selective about auto-slicing (some very slight deviations which are inaudible got their own slice -- but this is much more acceptable than the treatment given by beatslicer as It's much easier to sort by filesize, delete the WAVs that are inaudible than it is to crop away the offending material at the ends.

I do like beat slicer though, and hadn't actually thought to try it since it was for FLstudio anyway; but to those who want to use it and own the bundled FL version -- it can save as FL and ZGR which creates the slices as separate waves and a zgr file (didn't need the ZGR but didn't hurt anything).

So both work, but in this instance WaveKnife was the perfect solution, and it was much faster to use (6 clicks for each huge waveform and done).

Spe3D · Post by **Spe3D** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:45 pm

grymmjack wrote:
birrbits wrote:Zero-X Beatcreator
Definitely my copy of beat slicer can do what I was trying but WaveKnife worked actually better than beat slicer, and is free.

BeatCreator is not BeatSlicer grymmjack (they are both made by Zero-X) - just to point out there are two versions - BeatCreator is the better tool - BeatCreator is what I and birrbits suggested.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:21 pm

Spe3D wrote:
grymmjack wrote:
birrbits wrote:Zero-X Beatcreator
Definitely my copy of beat slicer can do what I was trying but WaveKnife worked actually better than beat slicer, and is free.

BeatCreator is not BeatSlicer grymmjack (they are both made by Zero-X) - just to point out there are two versions - BeatCreator is the better tool - BeatCreator is what I and birrbits suggested.

Ahhhhhhh

Shit, well what am I missing out on using the FL bundled version I wonder. Time to find out...

LIMITAPROACHINGINFINITY · Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:29 pm

This is how you can pirate samples from software companies that say you can"t give their samples to your friends, but you can give them loops you made.. Just make a "loop" that hits all the one shots spread out over 1 second pauses in between.. Give your friend the "loop".

edit: Im not encouraging this behavior.. Im just saying that this is a completely low down dirty shamefull act that would make someone deserving of a life long prison sentance. You dont deserve to live if you do this.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:58 pm

LIMITAPROACHINGINFINITY wrote:This is how you can pirate samples from software companies that say you can"t give their samples to your friends, but you can give them loops you made.. Just make a "loop" that hits all the one shots spread out over 1 second pauses in between.. Give your friend the "loop".

edit: Im not encouraging this behavior.. Im just saying that this is a completely low down dirty shamefull act that would make someone deserving of a life long prison sentance. You dont deserve to live if you do this.

It's funny you mention that because I was asked to do this by some nameless fellows (share the XP-60 sound source drumkits) but I denied them because I feel like they should have to pay for this stuff just like I had to pay for my keyboard and it's various expansions. However, they were the ones that gave me the idea to use the samples without the encumberance of the keyboard and it's MIDI I/O (by doing as I had original posted). So waveknifed them I did, and now all I have to do is go through and name each sample using the documentation from Roland as a guide (which they provide when you purchase the expansions and the keyboard). Needless to say I am not looking forward to that chore.

Auto export/slice of many 1-shot WAVs from 1 huge WAV?