Sample loop slicer

Started by oxxi, February 19, 2010, 07:55:31

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oxxi

I would like modplug to have the ability to slice loops/samples with cursors, and then once you have your slices, you click a button and it makes new instruments/samples for each slice.

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oxxi

So what do you guys think bout this request? Would it be difficult to implement this in to modplug?
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Saga Musix

I have been working on something that sounds rather similar to this request; A sample "grid" which only allows equally-sized sample selections (i.e. if the grid size is n, every sample selection is a multiple of 1/nth of the sample size). I think this is useful for creating equally-sized slices - if they're not supposed to be equally-sized, I usually shift+click the "new" button and trim parts of the sample.
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oxxi

That's very cool. Im glad to hear that you've been working on this.  :)  Would the grid be able to work with long recordings? For example to, disable/enable the grid when you have to pick slices at different parts of the waveform.
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Saga Musix

I'm not sure what the difference between a long and a short sample would be here... You can also enable/disable it at any time and the original selection will be kept until you make a new selection (where the new grid size will be taken into account).
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Harbinger

I could make use of this feature (and i'm sure ToB can as well), but what would be better is the use of markers to slice beatloops (a la Audacity).

Pizearke

I understand this is a two year bump, but I just want to say I haven't programmed in a few years and I kind of want to try to implement this feature to try to get back into it, as I would use the crap out of it.

Saga Musix

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djkurzman

That would be a feature that I, also, would use the crap out of. There are a few other apps that do this and you can always make sample clones and trim each one, but to have an actual beat slicer in MPT would be a treat!

Saga Musix

Oops, I forgot to mention this here... In OpenMPT 1.25.02.00 you can actually slice samples at their cue points.
The only problems right now are that there  are only 9 cue points (but I guess it's a start) and that the cue points are not actually visible in the editor. This will be fixed hopefully soon, though.
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Exhale

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I have been thinking hard about this, and enjoying-ish the system available in modplug lately, just thinking it would be nice if it could stay as a full / singular waveform and simply play from the cue points on a sequential semitone rise of notes (holding a decided note), say from c4 ; c#4,d4,d#4,e4...etc depending on how many parts the separations make, this way there wouldnt be repeated data if you want to still keep a loop and play the whole loop without hitting each individual note along the way...
Just a thought, and it might even be easier than creating new samples for each slice.
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