Experiment with slicing audio from different sources, such as voices and ambient textures. Slicing is most commonly applied to drum loops, but there’s no reason to stop there. The Arpeggiator and Random devices can yield particularly interesting results. Then insert the effects after this new sub-Rack.įor even more creative possibilities, try inserting MIDI effects ( see Chapter 25) before the Drum Rack. To process several slices with the same set of effects, multi-select their chains in the Drum Rack’s chain list and press CTRL- G(PC) / CMD- G(Mac) to group them to their own nested Rack. You can achieve a similar effect by dragging the Drum Rack’s pads onto each other to swap their note mappings.īecause each slice lives in its own chain in the Drum Rack, you can easily process individual slices with their own audio effects. But you can create new patterns by simply editing the MIDI notes ( see 10.4). This opens up many new editing possibilities, including:īy default, your sliced MIDI data will form a chromatically-ascending “staircase“ pattern in order to trigger the correct chains in their original order. Playing the MIDI clip will trigger each chain in the Drum Rack in order, according to the timing information that you specified or that was embedded in the audio. Note: Live will take a few moments to process all of this information. Adjusting one of these Macros will adjust the mapped parameter in each Simpler simultaneously. In the factory Slicing presets, these include basic envelope controls and parameters to adjust the loop and crossfade properties of each slice.
This command divides the audio into chunks which are assigned to single MIDI notes. When an audio clip is selected, four conversion commands are available in the Create Menu or the right-click(PC) / CTRL- click(Mac) context menu for the clip.Ĭontext Menu Commands For Converting Audio To MIDI.
(Note: the features discussed in this chapter are not available in the Intro and Lite Editions.)Īlthough Live’s warping allows for audio files to be used much more flexibly than in traditional audio software, there are also a number of ways to extract musical information from audio clips and place it into MIDI clips, for additional creative possibilities.