Limit to phrasing length?

Hi everyone!

Happy new year!

I have an odd issue with phrases and I’ve tried to search for answers everywhere, and have been trying various things for hours, without much luck.

I have a 2 min 20 second sample - a recording of a rhythm, acoustic guitar. I’ve sliced the various break points and am trying to render this to a phrase.

What I’m attempting to do is comp in Renoise. My theory is to render the three acoustic recordings to phrases using the slicing tool, and then on the pattern editor put them side to side, and delete specific slices I don’t want in the phrases - so essentially you only end up with the best parts in the pattern editor.

It works rather well and I’ve done this with short vocal singing samples, but now on this long sample it renders all the slices (combined to a time of 2:20bpm; 6 slices in all) onto 8 lines. (The song’s LPB is 4.) If I extend the lines on the ‘render to phrase’ to, say, 32 lines, it does do that, but the timing is still completely wrong - it’s like it’s unable to understand the tempo of the original recording or something - and so get’s the changes wrong on the phrase editor.

I can’t seem to find where I can fix this. It works perfectly for shorter samples - I follow the same process and everything just works. So I’m not sure if there is a limit to length of sample you can reliably slice into phrases?

Thanks so much!

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