Best workflow to simply stretch a cropped sample across the bar?

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Hi guys,

Read a few previous posts of similar but didn’t quite hit the spot I think I’m at.

I’m trying to nail down my workflow on this; could you help me out on it?

Enjoy making textures from longer pad / atmos samples. Load up a long pad sample (say 4 bars) find a 1 bar section of said sample that I like via start/end point setting - trigger that over 1 bar so the selected portion ends near enough just as the sequencer loops back on itself and starts a new run - you get me?

I then crop to that selection so I’m just left with that portion of audio, everything outside of that S/E is trimmed away.

Naturally its difficult to match the samples selected S/E points with the exact 1 bar sequencer length - giving a tiny gap at the end or the sample length overshoots the sequencer just a tad.

Is there a way to let time stretch just to plug that final end point gap/overshoot by either slightly stretching or compressing the new sample portion to perfectly match the OTs sequencer bar?

It seems if I just whack on time stretch on this newly cropped sample it acts like its still the 4 bar loop at whatever BPM it originally thought it was and goes whacky by trying to compress or stretch itself far too much so I’m basically just left with a 100% grained out sample - this is even after setting a new different BPM in the AED > FILE section.

Something just doesn’t seem right - like surely time-stretching to fill a few M/S gap at the end or conversely shrinking the sample a few M/S should be a good fixer for such and easy to do?

My methods might need recalibrating, hence the Q.

TIA,

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Time stretch off.
AED.
Make sure sample BPM matches tempo of desired pattern, adjust manually if needed.

Observe the bar length change as you do this.

Now do the opposite.
Change the bar length manually to be what ever you want. Observe BPM will change.

Now you can decided if you want time stretch on or off.

Either way, you can manually stretch a sample to be any length you want using AED.

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With timestretch on in the audio editor you can adjust either the bpm or the number of bars of the sample to extend ita bit.

As pointed out it does introduce artifacts…

If you plan to retrigger it then perhaps just find the start point you want and set start here in the audio editor. That way the end point is less important - it doesn’t need to be 1 bar exactly.