Sliced loop; avoiding pops?

Elektron Gear Octatrack
1

Is there a way to automatically add a short fade-in and fade-out to slices to help avoid pops n crackles when trigging loop slices either played rate fwd or reverse?

For example I have a simple rhodes piano loop that has no silence in it; it is just a sequence of slow sustained chords. When I grid slice, and regardless of agreeing to zero crossings or not, when trigging the slices in any order or linearly, I get pops n crackles that I’d prefer were not there.

Tried messing with the atk etc, but it makes little/no difference.

2

Unfortunately, no. I really hope attention turns to this on a future update. The recent smooth Ping Pong loop is a step in the right direction.

3

Try to adjust the slice start and end points manually after you have created them. Press function while asjusting to snap to zero crossings. If you have a stereo sample it might be tricky because the crossings will often not be at the same point across l+r channels.

4

Bit of a revelation moment here - never even occurred to me that (of course) stereo files have differing waves and therefore different zero crossings.
:+1:

5

…mono rules, anyway…

6

thanks - good tip. I reduced the db, summed the channels and hit the zero crosses. sounds much better.

7

In case you wanted to look at this any more - using a FLEX machine might yield better results if you’re cycling through many slices on a STATIC machine.