I have several 5 minute long recordings of me drumming to a set tempo for cutting into drum loops but I’m not very savy with using the magic of computers in my music making progress. I know the tempo of each recording, how would you efficiently go about picking certain measures into one or two bar little loops to slice up with various samplers like the m8, Ableton and Octatrack?
Any software or hardware with sampling should work. I don’t use ableton but I would imagine it’s doable with that. I use renoise and record the full passage onto its sampler. Then I set the start point on the kick and the end point on the transition to the kick one or two bars later, depending how long I want the final sample to be. The end point isn’t as critical as the start point because I’m not trying to make a perfect loop… I use renoise to trigger the sample to play back then add another trigger one or two bars later so it plays the sample through then re triggers it again hence why the end point isn’t as critical. I’d do the same with the OT… retriggering a prerecorded section so it ‘sounds like’ it looping of that makes sense?
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If you do you use Ableton, it would be fairly simple.
Make sure to read up (or watch online videos) on warping in version 12 (or in earlier editions if not 12).
Know that you can type in the BPM if you know it, as that can help make it easier to warp correctly.
The point of using the warp makers should be to create perfect loops, not change your human touch, so you’d likely minimally adjust warp markers for this.
Next, learn Slice and Consolidate options.
Then you can find all your consolidated loops in the project folder.
Super easy once you get used to it.
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These are super helpful replies, thank you both.
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