Great Idea.....How About A KVR Dev. Sample Slicer Contest
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- KVRAF
- 4669 posts since 26 Sep, 2005 from U.A.E
bump?
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- KVRAF
- 4669 posts since 26 Sep, 2005 from U.A.E
shure bump?
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- KVRist
- 484 posts since 12 Nov, 2002 from Texas
bump, any kind of Dev challenge would be sweet though!
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- KVRAF
- 12839 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
A lot.Xnah wrote:What do you expect from a this new slicer? In addition to Dicer/MicroDicer, Devine Machine, the eXT slicer, LiveSlice, the Kontakt slicer, etc? And of course the built-in ones in the big hosts?
Integration of a sampling engine.
Instant replacement of slices with material of your own, even multisamples.
Instant reordering of slices.
A slicing algorhythm as good as ReCycle's.
A large slicing window a la ReCycle.
Slice and loop point modulation by whatever controller, envelope, LFO you wish.
Instant drag and drop of slices straight from the interface to other (drum) samplers or your host, such as possible with Phatmatik.
Host tempo *and* host sync preview of REX (and probably Acid and Apple Loop) files and the internal format's files.
And probably a lot more, but I'll leave that to the developers' imagination

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- KVRian
- 1285 posts since 2 Jun, 2003
I'm in favor of this idea too. You never know what new features might arise as the devs around here put their brains to it.
If every KVR member wrote one review a year we'd have 678 reviews each day!
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- KVRAF
- 1973 posts since 18 Apr, 2004
Topic Starter
you could look at it like that, but a sample slicer that feels like an instrument hasn't been done yet, AMG one, Guru, and LiveSlice are all incredible but if you made a slicer that has what they all have and what they all miss you'd kill it... it being whatever it is.
personaly I wouldn't even think of it as a sampler, cause for some reason when people start calling something a sampler they start leaving out stuff that no sampler should be without- I'd just call it a slicer, make the dopest slicer you can imagine yourself making and cram it with features like a can of sardines, make it stable, and let it go, a sampler/slicer is different than most synths its not after a certain character and doesn't suffer from the ego that synths do, it just has to be a swiss army knife on crack and let the user decide how to mold it with said users personality
synths are always like hey look at me, this is where i'm from and this is what i'm into, a slicer wants to be into everything and anything it can get is grubby hands on, mutate, mangle and slice it up.
personaly I wouldn't even think of it as a sampler, cause for some reason when people start calling something a sampler they start leaving out stuff that no sampler should be without- I'd just call it a slicer, make the dopest slicer you can imagine yourself making and cram it with features like a can of sardines, make it stable, and let it go, a sampler/slicer is different than most synths its not after a certain character and doesn't suffer from the ego that synths do, it just has to be a swiss army knife on crack and let the user decide how to mold it with said users personality
synths are always like hey look at me, this is where i'm from and this is what i'm into, a slicer wants to be into everything and anything it can get is grubby hands on, mutate, mangle and slice it up.
- KVRAF
- 5620 posts since 8 Dec, 2004 from The Twin Cities
If ReCycleSascha Franck wrote: A slicing algorhythm as good as ReCycle's.
A large slicing window a la ReCycle.
1. Had a better wave editor (Down-to-the-sample waveform viewing, click and drag selection, etc).
2. Was integrated with Dr Rex
3. Was a plugin.
It would the coolest and perhaps best selling thing since....ReCycle.
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- KVRAF
- 6121 posts since 26 Sep, 2003 from right here, as you can see ...
well, if you count them all together, it's all there (or at least a lot), but it has to be one plugin ...Xnah wrote:What do you expect from a this new slicer? In addition to Dicer/MicroDicer, Devine Machine, the eXT slicer, LiveSlice, the Kontakt slicer, etc? And of course the built-in ones in the big hosts?
sofar bitshifts phatmatik pro is closest, still it has so much left what could be added which others got, so here's my list:
- 01. drag'n drop one/multiple slice/s straight to the drive.
02. drag'n drop a slice directly to the audio track of your host sequencer.
03. drag'n drop a loop.wav directly into the slicer plugin from the drive (desktop f.e.).
04. drag'n drop a loop.wav directly into the slicer plugin from an audiotrack of your host sequencer.
05. seperate slice endpoint adjusting (without affecting the nexts slices starpoint).
06. drag'n drop midi information not only to a miditrack, but straight to the drive as a conventional midifile (i.e. desktop).
07. rendering indifidual slices with envelopes (amp, filter?)and fx (if it has any), selectable.
08. mute slices.
09. reordering slices.
10. rendering the whole sliced and fully edited loop (drag'n drop/to disk, i.e. desktop?).
11. rex support (load+save).
12. acidloop support (load+save).
13. apple loop support (load+save).
14. timestretch/shrink and pitch of individual slices (stretch synced to host?).
15. multilane slicing, so that one can build his loop from different loops.
16. multi out's (adjustable).
17. low cpu usage
and yes, +100 for a dev. callenge on kvr.
regards,
brok landers
BIGTONEsounddesign
gear is as good as the innovation behind it-the man
brok landers
BIGTONEsounddesign
gear is as good as the innovation behind it-the man