Can one slice beats up in Renoise, like you can with Recycle? Am I getting totally confused? Do you slice up beats, via the pattern effect commands, like Pitch?
Cause, I was glancing at the manual, and all of a sudden, I am thinking, “somehow, I can tell Renoise to play Slice X of Sample X.” Is that true? How do you do that?
not all, but some (protracker, ft2, …)
in renoise, cropping and slicing is more comfy though, since you can let your selection “snap” to fixed fragments of the sample (i.e. “beats”). this however requires your sample/loop to be in sync with the song tempo, since if it’s not, the fragments renoise snaps to do not correspond to the individual events within the sample (i.e. kickdrum, hihat, snare, etc).
Tip I discovered: If you want a cut up break to be used in your song, but it dosen’t match the tempo, use the sync feature, put it in the song, render selection to sample, and now its the right tempo.
Every one goes on about 09xx effects. I don’t mind this technique but I feel like it’s not as fast for plugging in notes. What I do is that I load the sample into an instrument, and select the chunk I don’t want, hit cut, and add a new sample to the instrument. I do this until the whole beat is sliced, go to the instrument editor and hit “create drum kit” and it assigns each sample to c, c#, d, d# etc. This makes it really easy to plug in a beat.
Generate drum kit is really useful. Longer to do in the beginning, but you can go nuts when typing in beats.
I like to slice mine into 8ths, Cutting to the nearest hit to the 8th, so each kick/snare is nicely quantised, but you still keep the rhythm of the original break.
Thats lesson 1 in making funk without using the delay column
but what if i want to change the pitch of these samples from the drumkit. let’s say c-4 is a kick or snare. but when i want this one to play at d-4, d-4 is already reserved to another part of the drumkit in c-4…