Anyone well versed with Vice 2?
I'm trying the demo at the moment, trying to decide if to buy.
What i can't work out is: how do you load a long song (perhaps even a whole song) and stop Vice from time stretching it, while still detecting the transients and creating slices?
I tried several EDM & house tracks, and Vice always guesses the BPM completely wrong, and timestretches it like crazy.
But imagine i just want to slice it up on transients, without any timestretching at all, how in the world-wide world do you do that?!
I have other questions, but i guess that is the most burning one.
Thanks!
Any Vice 2 users out there?
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- KVRAF
- 1895 posts since 8 Jan, 2022
As far as I know Vice doesn't time stretch. It just uses slices.
If you go to manual slice mode it will just play at default speed.
The best way to use vice is to use shorter loops and trim to the nearest bar within the sampler window.
Then type in the number of beats e.g 4 beats for one bar and use the transient detect mode.
I tend to use Vice in midi mode where I export the midi into Ableton.
If you go to manual slice mode it will just play at default speed.
The best way to use vice is to use shorter loops and trim to the nearest bar within the sampler window.
Then type in the number of beats e.g 4 beats for one bar and use the transient detect mode.
I tend to use Vice in midi mode where I export the midi into Ableton.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 587 posts since 8 May, 2012 from E.U.
Thanks, i worked out, you're right, it doesn't time stretch, it just slices.
If you put the BPM to the same as your DAW, then click a slice and let it play through more slices (in phrase mode), it'll be at the original tempo.
Weird, i don't understand the logic behind that, or even the purpose of the BPM setting, but ho-hum, i guess it is what it is!
As just a long sample slicer, it's pretty cool, and you can just use the demo with a recorder like MRecorder after it, if you're only looking for single hits.
I notice that if you try to export a sample, they mangle the sound, as part of the demo limitation i guess. That's pretty dumb, who's gonna buy something that may or may not mangle the sound?!
If you put the BPM to the same as your DAW, then click a slice and let it play through more slices (in phrase mode), it'll be at the original tempo.
Weird, i don't understand the logic behind that, or even the purpose of the BPM setting, but ho-hum, i guess it is what it is!
As just a long sample slicer, it's pretty cool, and you can just use the demo with a recorder like MRecorder after it, if you're only looking for single hits.
I notice that if you try to export a sample, they mangle the sound, as part of the demo limitation i guess. That's pretty dumb, who's gonna buy something that may or may not mangle the sound?!