Stem-chains trick

[AdamJay]

@Microtribe

One thing I like doing lately is making a new loop out of the sample chain, with whatever FX and modulations etc, resample that loop, then that frees up the 2 FX slots. Since the new loop is now a single sample… it frees up lots of trigs to use as conditionl trigless trigs for FX fuckery.

Yea. I use a flex resampling/slicing track for transitions and to do similar things as you described. It’s one of the reasons I want a 2nd Octatrack

[AdamJay]

@thoughtstarZ

The way I was thinking would be to either- split the song into multiple parts (stems and then use octachain to make a chain…or just manually cut the song up in the OT editor, into slices of your liking.
What kept m from the latter is knowing where the bars started whn you get further into the song.
But I see using a DAW and doing the work there…Yeah thats a great idea.

One of the reasons I am chopping and segmenting in the DAW is to make sure I’ve got everything lined up properly, since I mix this content with other loops, hits, and live input of MIDI synchronized synths.

There are a few ways to get it done, and a few ways to set up your chain in the end. It all depends on what you want to do with the material, so best to take the path that is best for you.
I’m still faster with Ableton than anything else, and I can make busy work out of just taking old session on my laptop and turning them into stem-chains while we’re watching a documentary or something.

[thoughtstarZ]

Yeah, I totally get that. Thanks for inspirations. Breaking things up in Ableton would be a much easier affair… And documentaries are nice.