I’ve got some one shot Foley sounds that I’ve recorded with a field recorded and sliced into samples, and some of them have a flipped phase in the low end between the left and right channel. I was wondering if there’s any way on Digitakt 2 to play only the left or right channel of a sample as mono? Or maybe some resampling trick to achieve this?
Also, I was wondering how you guys automate slicing and naming field recorded one shots, currently I’m using Ableton and doing it manually is quite time consuming. I know I can slice them to a drum rack but then I assume it would leave quite a bit of silence on the tail of the one shots that I’d have to manually trim anyways. Any recommendations for ipad or PC apps that make the process easier?
Ah ok you want to slice recordings into one shots ?
I’d do it with my DAW (Samplitude).
There is a freeware called Wavosaur, auto slice function with transients detection and slices export.
I know Octachainer, it is the opposite : you load samples, and it makes a file you can slice.
For uneven length, silence is added in order to have equal length. Fade in/out options.
Looking forward to checking it out. Does it trim silence from the end of the slices by any chance? And can I set predefined fadeout times on the slices?
Theres a transient detector, but it’s quite basic, in the slice panel per sample, then click the ‘T’ button, change the threshold value and click T button again to re-analyze, save the slices once done.
You can then go to the sample editor panel to clean up / remove individual slices - honestly, for automated transient detection, there are better tools, just not on the web.
To clear any existing slice data for a sample ‘Ctrl/Cmd’+ Click the slice panel icon for that sample.
You can add slice points manually in the sample editor panel quite quickly, choose your first slice end point by Shift clicking the waveform, click ‘New Slice’ button, then for each next slice, ‘Shift + Ctrl/Cmd’ click the waveform to set the next slices end point while automatically moving the start point to the end of the last slice, then click ‘New Slice’.
Now with that done, to remove any trailing silence from this chain, open the slice panel for that sample which will show our set slices, and click ‘New Chain’ button, this will keep the chain, but remove the silences at the end of the slices and put it to a new file in the list.
So I realized I already have the perfect DAW for automating all this slicing and sample saving. Reaper has a bunch of really powerful and easy to use audio editing tools. There’s an action called “Auto Trim/Split” which slices according to thresholds and lengths that you pre set. Then you just tweak the fades and sample start/end if you need to, normalize, and batch save all the split items with the fades applied. I’ve saved quite a few hours batch slicing recordings with it compared to Ableton.
