I have a note playing at bar 1 for 2 bars, and another at bar 3 for 2 bars total 64 steps, I want to use LFO to randomly select slice on every trig (I’m using GRID mode), played the LFO a bit but can’t get this to work, any tips?
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With slice machine, you have to choose a track sample to slice so for the track you want to randomize, you need to pick one sample to work with. If there are 2 samples, you’d need to use 2 audio tracks.
First method which is probably easiest: on your sliced track, from the slice menu screen and with record mode active, press YES to open the allocate slice menu. The option create random locks will randomize slice placement across the entire track based on where you have your trigs populated and the length you selected for your slices, use the arrow keys to select that and press YES. Depending on your needs (like if you want it choppy/glitchy sounding with shorter slices across the length of 2 bars) you will need to enter additional sequencer events (not just one note on the 1 and another on 33).
If you aren’t happy with the way the randomization sounds, you can choose create random locks as many times as you want to re-randomize the slices and once it sounds similar to your goal then you just leave it there. Just to say you aren’t stuck with the first attempt at randomization, you can keep doing it even with the sequencer running but I think it restarts the pattern each time you randomize so be aware of what you’re actually listening to or press stop and start it again to hear from bar 1.
The explanation in the manual in case I’m explaining it badly:
Using the LFO for this you would have to approach it differently, you would want to slice up the sample on your computer, bring all slices in as individual wav files, then populate trigs in the sequencer (as a pattern, or randomly depending on what you want it to sound like) and then use an lfo on the track with a random wave shape and pointed at sample slot, then probably go hard negative on the depth parameter. That should randomly select samples from the sample pool.
In this instance, I don’t think this works as well but it’s up to you how you approach it. Hopefully that helps.
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This is a great explanation thank you.
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I’d simply use Random Lfo, Hold mode, Slice Select Dest. Increase depth to taste.
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I tried this, but difficult to find the exact SPD and BPM parameter when you have only 1 trig every too bars, I got glitchy changes, and no changes at all, my slices play exactly 2 bars on my selected bpm 124, the idea is to play a different slice randomly every 2 bars.
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Are you trying to work within one pattern but have continual randomization of the sample slot every 2 bars? Basically, same 64 bar pattern but step 1 and step 33 always trigger a different sample?
Are your samples uniform in length (all of them are 2 bars long each?)
Exactly, yes samples are perfectly uniform, each slice will play exactly for 32 steps
Are you sure you tried with HOLD mode ? Can’t be glitchy.
With this mode value change only once for each new trig.
If no change : faster speed bpm.
No need for a specific speed/bpm btw.
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Indeed, much better with hold, I was using TRIG in LFO, thanks
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My bad, I initially thought that you wanted to slice the larger wav files and have them randomize across the grid based on when you said you wanted to use LFO to randomly select slice on every trig. I interpreted the objective wrong, but glad you got a working solution.
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