Splitting slice .wav into single files

I have a bunch of .wav files containing 8-16 one shot hits of drums. I’ve recorded them in a way that DT slice grid recognizes them instantly (meaning there’s clear and consistent intervals between the one shots so that transients are recognized easily). Now I want to split these into .wav files that contain one one shot each. What’s the fastest way to do that? Is there a software dedicated for that kind of stuff?

I was thinking about doing this manually in Ableton, but am wondering whether there might be something faster and more reliable. Sadly, Simpler’s slice mode can’t do that afaik and is only meant for playing the sample but not for splitting the actual .wav file.

You can simply resample it in the DT, it may not take longer than doing it on a computer I think.

Edit : depends on how many you have of course…

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Propellerheads recycle can do this and it’s free now…

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Digichain will do that, from our own Brian Bar

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Your Bento, doesn’t it resample sequences? If yes, you can put each slice into a sequence and resample the latter. Perhaps switch off the compressor before resampling. Not totally convenient but it should work.

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Thanks for highlighting this - for some reason totally missed by me and it looks amazing!

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People in the thread or Brian himself will usually support questions or entertain reasonable feature requests. It’s worth checking out if anyone else hasn’t popped in there before.

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Thanks everyone for your suggestions :pray:. Digi Chain sounds like the first thing to check out!

I’ve sent back the Bento for a refund. I’d also like to do that on a laptop if possible and not resample on DT, like @pumpkin_head suggested.

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Simpler → slice to drum track probably converts them to wav oneshots?

Quick update: Installed this and almost finished everything within about half an hour. That advice was golden, thanks a lot!

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Bumping this for all new Tonverk owners who wonder how they can make individual files for their sub tracks from slices fast.

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Oh yeah thanks for the reminder! Any tips for the fastest workflow to slice exactly on the grid (vs transients)?

This is the fastest I’ve been able to find so far:

  • Set bars to the lowest whole number divisor possible (i.e. 3 for a chain of 12)
  • Process → Add Slices at 16ths
  • Set Bars to 12 and Ruler to Beats
  • Disable Envelope (since chains are typically pretty tight and you don’t want to mess with transients)
  • Remove any extra slices
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I’m quite biased towards my own tools for slicing from spaced chains:

chain-to-hits

But I completely agree that its hard to beat Recycle when using transient detection :slight_smile:

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