Isn’t it possible to Plock sample start position per trig on a fine scale, so you can choose exactly where it plays from on the DT2?
Is the only work around to chop in software and then import it, or to manually chop slices on the DT and save them as individual samples?
Well the resolution on the DT is a value of between 0 and 120, so for quantised stuff its a case of dividing 120 by 2, 4 ,6 etc to work out the start points, and for anything else its a bit of guess work. This is where sample zoom would be very useful. And of course you have the grid machine, but again this is only good if what you are slicing is quantised and in multiples of 2, 4, 8 etc. Is that what you mean?
You can manually lock sample start point and sample length on the source page by adjusting the parameters while holding down the step.
Thanks yeah I’ve read through some good posts about slicing/plocking with quantised material, but I’d like to use un-quantised classical and jazz etc. where it would be useful to be able to accurately set an exact start point which may not correspond to one of the 0-120 values. Is the only way to do this by slicing in software first and importing the individual slices, or by cropping and saving individual slices in the DT?
You dont have to stick to quantised values of course, with a bit of trial and error you can locate any other start point, tho may not always be super accurate. Lots of people have for a long time requested a sample zoom function which would help this, tho I wonder if the reason it hasnt been implemented is linked to the level of float-point resolution (or whatever its called) on offer in the DT/DT2, which i guess is a little on the low side (NB im purely guessing here). So… yes, maybe curating your own sample slices might be the way to go here, and/or make some nice sets of sample chains
EDIT: also depends on how long your samples are- it’ll be easier to find more exact start points in shorter samples as opposed to whole tracks.