Beat slicing with 64 slices for Rytm!

**Hey :slight_smile: **

Been wanting to try doing some slicing on a Rytm for a while and now I finally got one, so dove into it right away and it actually worked. You can slice longer than 1 bar, you can slice 2,3,4 bars.

I know there is another way to do this, but to me this seems a bit more flexible and IIRC the other way of doing slicing didn’t let you slice 64 slicers.

Here is an example of preparing a sample.

1. Find a loop you like, make sure it’s cut correctly as a loop and put in in your favourite DAW, at the correct BPM.

(In this case I am making a 4 bar loop of 170 bpm.)

2. Export the 4 bar loop as a wav file.

3. Open the wav in Audacity.

4. Highlight the whole file, so the processing you do is done to the whole file. cmd+a on Mac.

5. Go to Effect > Pitch & Tempo and select “ Change Speed and Pitch”

6. As a multiplier you set 1.875 and push apply.

7. Export the file.

8. Put the file back into your DAW.

9. Export the wav file with the ORIGINAL loop length of 4 bars, at the same tempo. Yes there will be empty space at the end of the file…

10. That’s it, the pre processing is done.

11. Import the loop into Rytm, as you do.

Loop points for steps in RYTM:

Start point for first step = 0 - A HARD 0

End point for first step = 0, but move the knob to 1 and then slowly move it back to 0, so it’s basically 0, but 0 just before getting to 1.

**There is some wiggle room within each start/end point. 0 is not just 0 and 1 is not just one, you can adjust it a bit, with the knob when setting the start/end point. **

As a side note for this, I tried just extending the sequener to 2 pages, like you do, but when I did that, I had to go in and adjust most of the start/end points, especially the end points, they get “wrapped” to the next value, so slice 0’s end point, when you copy it to page 2, it ende up actually being set to 1, which took a few moments to realise. I had to set them all manually again.

And for second slices, it’s the same as above, just with 1 and so on.

In this case you have every single slice, up to 64 slice, which is 63
You would need to adjust the pitch, of course. Around an octave down, seems to be pretty decent to my ears. The loop is almost 2 times the speed, so an octave down as a start point works well and you can adjust it form there if you need tonal precision.

The magic number 1.875 comes from this:

120/64 = 1.875 for 64 slices

You can slice other loop lengths too, like 16, 32, then you just have to change the magic number:
120/16 = 7.5

That’s basically it. Of course the start end point thing could need some adjustment pr. step, unless you really hard quantised every single step in the loop, but overall - IT WORKS :wink:

I am going to experiment with hard quantising every loop I want to slice, so they all are a like, and then add any swing etc. back on the Rytm, cause then you can treat every loop the exact same, hopefully :slight_smile:

Anyway, Have a nice weekend :wink:

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