Hey everyone. I am just as new to forum as I am to Waveform. Let me first start off by saying thank you to everyone who participates. This place answer a lot of questions that manual misses.
I would like to know if it possible to chop/slice a sample in Waveform or do I need to use a third party plug in? I am looking to chop up some Tracklib samples.
Gregg
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beatjuggernauts beatjuggernauts https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=468214
- KVRer
- 2 posts since 14 Jun, 2020
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- KVRist
- 375 posts since 18 Nov, 2023
Welcome to the forum!
I assume that you are searching for what in Waveform is referred to as splitting and editing. In waveform you would place your audio sample into what's called an audio clip, and the clip itself being placed into a track. Then you can split and edit the clip according to your needs (remove parts from it, reorder parts, modify parts, ...). Later on there exist various possibilities to form a new audio sample as your result (merge, heal, consolidate, render, ...).
There are several video tutorials explaining the possibilities. Don't worry if not finding those tutorials produced for the newest version of Waveform. There are usually added new features and more sophisticated methods to new versions, but the general workflow and old functionality is usually kept.
Have a first look here:
Fastest way to find more tutorials is to follow the suggestions made here:
https://www.tracktion.com/training/videos
Good luck!
I assume that you are searching for what in Waveform is referred to as splitting and editing. In waveform you would place your audio sample into what's called an audio clip, and the clip itself being placed into a track. Then you can split and edit the clip according to your needs (remove parts from it, reorder parts, modify parts, ...). Later on there exist various possibilities to form a new audio sample as your result (merge, heal, consolidate, render, ...).
There are several video tutorials explaining the possibilities. Don't worry if not finding those tutorials produced for the newest version of Waveform. There are usually added new features and more sophisticated methods to new versions, but the general workflow and old functionality is usually kept.
Have a first look here:
Fastest way to find more tutorials is to follow the suggestions made here:
https://www.tracktion.com/training/videos
Good luck!
Classical guitar --> Line Audio CM4 @ SSL12 --> KDE-Plasma @ Debian-Linux --> Waveform PRO 13.5
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- KVRist
- 375 posts since 18 Nov, 2023
If these functions would not satisfy you, if you for instance would desire for your editing workflow to find more detailed views like a spectrogram view, or you are searching for more specialized noise removal tools, then you probably would have to use a dedicated audio editor for this. Waveform here surprisingly lacks behind by not providing a proper set of tools for some basic functions like noise removal, and its spectrogram view functionality is mostly of no avail. Waveform more pushes for its arranger, music assembly, mixing and automation functionalities, and for some other advanced and even fancy features. For the pure, detailed, to begin with audio editing you might want to complement it with an audio editor. You will find several professional audio editors and audio analyzers to be available for the MS Win and APPLE Mac platforms, including the ones which are also worth to know for Linux. For Linux I would recommend you to have a look at Ocenaudio for the audio editing, and to maybe consider Sonic Visualizer for the even more sophisticated sound analysis.
An alternative tool for you could be Audacity. It for pure audio works (recording, editing, and very basic mixing) provides all you might need. Editing functionality performance is close to the specialist Ocenaudio and superior to Waveform. It is limited to audio works, though. It doesn't provide any MIDI and virtual instrument targeted arranger functionality. Audio mixing doesn't cope with channel sends and returns, submixes, effect racks and alike advanced mixing and mastering features. The workflow of Audacity doesn't support advanced possibilities, and it is graphically by far not as nicely optimized as Waveform or Ocenaudio. However, although looking ugly and staying limited, Audacity is succeeding nicely all basic, pure audio tasks.
An alternative tool for you could be Audacity. It for pure audio works (recording, editing, and very basic mixing) provides all you might need. Editing functionality performance is close to the specialist Ocenaudio and superior to Waveform. It is limited to audio works, though. It doesn't provide any MIDI and virtual instrument targeted arranger functionality. Audio mixing doesn't cope with channel sends and returns, submixes, effect racks and alike advanced mixing and mastering features. The workflow of Audacity doesn't support advanced possibilities, and it is graphically by far not as nicely optimized as Waveform or Ocenaudio. However, although looking ugly and staying limited, Audacity is succeeding nicely all basic, pure audio tasks.
Classical guitar --> Line Audio CM4 @ SSL12 --> KDE-Plasma @ Debian-Linux --> Waveform PRO 13.5
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- KVRist
- 359 posts since 21 Jun, 2020
The easiest and fastest way to cut something in Waveform is to use “Slash”, whether midi or audio, all clips are quickly cut by pressing this key. Click on the top edge of the clip, select it, and start cutting.
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- KVRAF
- 2456 posts since 9 Oct, 2008 from UK
Audacity has some new options via some OpenVINO (whatever that is) add-ins. There's stem separation, which works nicely, noise suppression, and "music style remix", which I ought to investigate.
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beatjuggernauts beatjuggernauts https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=468214
- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 2 posts since 14 Jun, 2020
Thank you everyone for responding. I was hoping Multi Sampler could slice (non-drum) samples via the transients of the sample or as you play the sample and make the cuts that you want ala MPC Beats, for example. With that said, the Audacity option sounds promising. I sometimes use WavePad by NCH Software which offers a lot of features in its free version. I'm looking forward to developing a workflow that will make creating music within Waveform a blast. Thank you again!
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- KVRist
- 359 posts since 21 Jun, 2020
Try the free version:beatjuggernauts wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:59 pm Thank you everyone for responding. I was hoping Multi Sampler could slice (non-drum) samples via the transients of the sample or as you play the sample and make the cuts that you want ala MPC Beats, for example. With that said, the Audacity option sounds promising. I sometimes use WavePad by NCH Software which offers a lot of features in its free version. I'm looking forward to developing a workflow that will make creating music within Waveform a blast. Thank you again!
https://hy-plugins.com/product/hy-slicer2/