How to chop multiple samples more or less exactly the same?

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Hi, new user here. I have a multi-track drum beat I’d like to chop and rearrange as if it was a single track. It’s a drum break and 2 drum machines, with the drum machine instruments each on their own tracks. I could render it as a single track, but I’d like to save the mixing for later. Not everything is precisely quantized, otherwise I could chop everything along the grid.

Here’s what I’ve been doing so far: I rendered the break and the main kick/snare from one of the drum machines into a stereo track, with the break and kick/snare hard panned, then I collapsed it to mono (so it’s not annoying to listen to), and I chopped/rearranged that. This way I can separate it back out to 2 mono tracks for mixing later. Works pretty well. But now I have the tom and hat tracks to chop the same as the break/kick/snare track. I’m thinking if I chop them the same, then I could just copy the sequence to the new tracks, then assign the relevant samples to those tracks.

I think what would work is if I could view the time length of each chopped sample, then I could apply that each new sample. So for example, say the first chopped sample is 1.023 seconds long, then I could import a new sample, slice it at 1.023 seconds, and so on. But I’m not seeing that view.

Does it make sense what I’m trying to do? Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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There’s a possible work-around that’s a but tedious.

  • Render everything to a new sample.
  • Go to that new sample and slice it up
  • Here’s the hack: For each of the individual tracks, select the sample, go back to that new rendered (and sliced) sample
  • Select the entire sample and set silence the selection (it’s an option in the sample editor
  • Now copy into the single-instrument sample you copied
  • The sample should have kept the slice points
  • render the slices to wavs or to a new instrument or something

It’s tedious but it’s so far the only way I’ve found to maintain a set of slice points for different samples.

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This tool might be useful for you

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Ah cool, thanks for the tip James. Tried it out real quick, seems to do the trick. I’ll have to give that tool a try too, thanks for pointing it out OopsIFly.

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very cool.

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That’s a cool trick! Didn’t know the slice markers could be copied in that fashion. Thanks

On a somewhat related note, I wish there was a good command line tool for slicing loops, because I want to do some large batches of breakbeat chopping.

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Maybe sox would be a good alternative for batch splitting.

SoX - Sound eXchange | HomePage (sourceforge.net)