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RSMRSM · Post by **RSMRSM** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:55 am

Is there a rhyme or reason to Mulab's slicing algorithm? I imported some live drums to quantize the audio, but the slicing is allllllllllllllllllllllll over the place.

Any help would be appreciated

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:49 am

If the auto slicing is not what you want you can do the slicing manually and store the markers for that audio file so you won't have to do the manual slicing ever again.

RSMRSM · Post by **RSMRSM** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 12:42 pm

Any thoughts on editing and quantizing drum audio? With 5-7 individual audio tracks per composition (kick, snare, overheads, etc...) slicing each subdivision can take an eternity. Looking for something like Elastic Audio featured in Protools. I'm assuming you can't line every track up individually because the the drums would have internal syncing issues. If the bass drum track were sliced and lined up, it would be out of sync with the hi-hat track and so on.

Is the rule to slice the drums as a group and let the bass drum lead the way? I still would like to understand how Mulab makes its slicing decisions. Can those parameters be altered?

Thanks

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 1:05 pm

Not precisely sure what you need, but have you looked at the Docs about slicing here...
http://mutools.com/info/docs/mulab/slic ... mples.html

...and also about snap markers here:
http://www.mutools.com/info/docs/mulab/composer.html

"A snap marker makes it easy to align a specific audio cue point to the grid. For example if you have a vocal audio part that starts with the word "Spring" you can put a snap marker on the "P" so to perfectly align it to the beat, while the "S" will be perfectly sliding in in front of it. To set a snap marker, right-click a relevant marker in the Audio Lab and choose "Set Snap Marker"."

syntonica · Post by **syntonica** » Sat Sep 17, 2016 4:07 am

Isn't there a way to change the sensitivity of the transient detection? I do not see this in the docs, and this setting can be helpful on beats that have multiple levels on transients, even after normalizing.

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Sat Sep 17, 2016 10:12 am

Yes you can set a preference to show the transient detector settings: "Show Drum Slicer Dialog".
Just this consideration: It could be that the time you invest in finding good settings for a particular sample will be more than the time you'd need to finetune the auto created markers manually.

syntonica · Post by **syntonica** » Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:28 pm

Cool.

. If just one or two marks are off, no big deal, can add them in a second or two. But I've had over half the marks fail on a loop before.

Being able to try again with different settings is helpful.

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