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Best app/plug/method for slicing breaks in NS2
I realise this has been touched on before but I’d like to make a specific query:
I’m using NS2 as my daw but can’t figure out a fast way to slice my breakbeats into hits and have them spread over pads in Slate - at the moment I’m using sample offset but as the gradient is weird (after 50 percent it’s not as accurate as before 50 percent for some reason) I’d much prefer to be able to slice the break in another app and import the hits as a kit - is this possible?
Holy moly, when’s the audio update coming!!!! Not a moment too soon by the looks of some people’s comments!
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So this is what I do. I am sure there's a better way.
I do all my slicing in ReSlice (Virsyn). You can export a zip of the slices and then copy that to NS2. It will add it to the library (/Library/Inbox/). You can shuffle things around in there, but the slice names are "preset-1", "preset-2" etc etc. Then you load to each slate pad (pad1 = sample 1, pad2 = sample 2 and so on).
There might be a MUCH sexier way, but I'm not aware of it the good news is, even though ReSlice exports in 24bit wave, NS is more than happy to accept that.
Also, you could host ReSlice directly in NS2, but... I have concerns about the longevity of being able to re-open an older project that has a sample loaded in ReSlice that might not be on my device anymore.... really uncertain about that behavior...
Use Reslice or Auditor. Auditors new slicing function is killer. When assigning samples to pads in Slate just choose the pad and then double-tap the sample. Speeds things up quite a bit. Better than dragging them. I mention because I have seen several posts where people didn’t seem to realize this was an option.
Yep this sounds like the only way to do it right now - I’m on iPhone only so no Auditor unfortunately! That looks perfect for what I need. I was sold on Slicr a few months back but it was fairly clumsy in its navigation...
How simple would it be to make this sort of app though? Auto-detecting transients with the ability to micro-adjust them, save under useful file names, zipped together...