Hey!
Are there any DAWs or Tools where I can load for example a movie or audio file and quickly export the parts I like to use them in my Elektron samplers? I mean like really quick. I own Ableton but I find the workflow for that particular purpose not very quick. I’d like a faster process and with a que (set in+out -> shortcut -> add to render que) function or something like that. Do you know of any app that works like this?
Reaper? I basically use it like that to make my sample packs. Slice out parts to export, create regions from slices, export (edit: render) regions.
Hmm… this might be the time for me to install Reaper at last – I have heard so many good things about that DAW.
So, what i’ve found is if I find something on youtube that i like, i find a video to mp3 converter and go that way. I proceed to chop those up in renoise, and it works well because i can make my own sample chains
If you have a mac, you can try audio hijack. Solid software for extracting audio from anything.
I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I just use Audacity to record stuff off my computer.
Hmm… I guess there is a workflow in every DAW or even more NLE (video editing) for this… I remember using a tool with a render cue function to extract scenes off long movies that was pretty quick (as I said … shortcut I for in, shortcut O for out -> shortcut to add to render cue and proceed with next in and out and so on). So I guess I am imagine a workflow without any interruption like playing somewhere and recording somewhere else – this is slow and how would you get the perfect chop – you would always have to trim those clips – in my eyes not a fast workflow if you want to extract lots of clips.
Interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever worked like that, or needed something like that. I usually just hear something I’d like to sample, pause the movie or whatever, and hit record on Audacity, trim and it’s done. But, yeah if you were trying to do a specific thing with multiple parts of the movie, without re-editing…well, if your looking for it, somebody prolly made an app for it.
Just found the app I was talking about … MPEG Streamclip. Not compatible with the new OS. What a bummer…
Hmmm, interesting. So, it’s Windows right? Not compatible with Win10? I might check it if it is.
Edit…Right, your talking about Mac. I’m on Win10, so downloading now. You got me interested. 
Well, I have no clue – but I installed a Windows laptop a few days ago and installed MS Office 2007 – so I am pretty confident that it will work since Microsoft doesn’t want to break anything in terms of compatibility since Windows 95 (I really admire Windows users in that regard!)
Can’t you use warp markers in Live and then slice?
And then I have 300 chops, export them and have to delete the 294 bad ones? Or is there a workflow for this I can’t think of right now?
I don’t think there is a good workflow in Ableton tbh. I know you can create clips and then freeze the track which will generate WAV files named Freeze Project 0123921931.wav or something. But it’s a few clicks too much. In Adobe Premiere this would be easier.
Maybe I’m missing the point here, but I’d put warp markers where I want my slices, pull them in the timeline, listen and delete all unwanted stuff then export.
Or import the whole thing into the timeline, use short cut ctrl+e to slice (or rather cut the clip, slice is the wrong word here) at cursor, delete unwanted stuff -> export.
Zoom in/out with mousewheel is fast and acurate in Live.
But working with long samples is slow in Ableton. And exporting is slow as well. This is all time I could look for the next sample I want to export.
Ok…If you use save and collect all feature, all consolidated clips (Ctrl +J) appear in the project folder (amongst other audio).
I think there’s a folder for all consolidated files.
So CTRL+J to choose which slices go there.
No need to go through the export dialog.
Maybe that would help?
YEP! That works like a charm! Awesome! Thanks a lot!
So my workflow is now like this:
Go to timeline, drag&drop clip wait until it’s analyzed (get a coffee), save the project (!), mark with mouse the passage you want to extract -> press CMD+E (or CTRL+E), drag it one track up, CMD+R (or CTRL+R) to rename it properly to find it afterwards and then finally CMD+J to consolidate which will save it into the project folder in the subfolder Projectname/Samples/Processed/Consolidated/Thisismychop.aif
Fission on the Mac is really fast for this sort of thing. One of its banner features is “rapidly split up long files”.
In Studio One you can drag a bunch of snippets and cuts you make in your timeline into a folder. It even gives the option to render with insert fx. VERY handy.
Beeing a little late to the party …
Having a couple of pro-software tested, I was surprised about Audacity at such a task and it became my go-to tool for cutting slices from long audio files.
Audacity supports to select “regions” of interest, to “label” those “regions” and at the end to batch-export the “labeled” regions only. We can even store the “project”, have a break, and continue later.
