LS: Features that could be handy in a slicer

[ultimo]

Hi slicers,

I tested the demo, it's quite nice but I'm still missing some features for the super-duper-slicer I am searching for...
Maybe I didn't test-drive it too long, but I was searching for the following features
(or should I calll them FR's )

1.Loop points and Loop-modes per slice:
There are some situations where I need this, for e.g. you may want to use a 'Ping-pong'-loop-mode on a string-sound in a loop.

1a. loop-points arrangements per slice.
So you can set how many times a loop can occur between two loop-points, before continuing to the next loop-point.

2.Time-stretching per slice:
This can be useful when you just what to give that extra edge to a sample when it falls short in a arragement, or just to disorder the pace of the slice.

3.Pitch-shifting per slice without tempo change
For the same reason of 2., with the additional that you can change the way how
notes will sound, playing the keyboard

4.Time-streching/pitch-shifting per loop:
No slicer can live without this.

5.Filter and ADSR per slice or better, per key
So you can descide when the filter is kicking in on a slice.

6.Grouping slices to a key
So you don't have to fiddle more slice-points in a crowded area.

7. Assign slices to an output/assign keys to an output.
Useful when using fx on a particular slice/key.

[ohm]

hi ultimo, thanks for the list.

It just so happens that I have plans to let LiveSlice evolve towards a super-duper-kickass-slicer, and I like most of your ideas. At the moment I'm considering exactly this feature-category: advanced tempo and beat matching as found in more mainstream slicers.

I didn't consider user-definable loop points before - very nice idea. The plan is to implement a time-stretching engine based on crossfaded loops anyways so it's just a matter of adding controls to move the loop points around if the automatically define loop doesn't sound right or is to short or whatever.

You can already assign slices to an output - but it's done in the slicer part not in the arranger part. That is about to change too btw.

[loachm]

...can't help it, but the suggestions sound a bit like Kontakt to me...

[ultimo]

@loadchm:
Well, kontakt is a bit too heavy and too pricy for me, plus kontakt doesn't work as fast workflow-wise as LiveSlice.

If you ment Intakt, then it doesn't do exactly what I said. The time-stretch is loosly coupled to the slicer so time-stretching/pitch-shifting is not defined per slice but on the whole loop. Intakt is also not as accurate as LiveSlice (that's what I think/feel.) and doesn't do the loop-point mechanisms as a normal sampler.

They haven't updated Intakt for a long time, so I don't expect them to come with the improvements.

Beatcreator (Fruity) + Phatmatik has some of the features I said but those won't cut it either and I don't what to buy them all because you still can't get the same results as in a all-in-one product.

BTW I'm using fruityslice right now...

[R.A.W.]

5.Filter and ADSR per slice or better, per key
So you can descide when the filter is kicking in on a slice.

just jumping in on that
technically you can do that already, on every track you have the option to send 2 midi-params to another plugin, so you can just chain a filter and control it with CCs coming from LS.
i'm one of the few who doesn't need (or want) an internal filter as i tend to use my favorite vst-plugins which are dedicated to that function.