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We're going to take a look at Simpler in slice mode now.
So, I'm on this glitch filtered kit track here
and we can see Simpler displayed for us below.
So, I'm opening up this up one more time and you can see that we still
have full access to the control panel.
So, sound as an options are still there for us in this mode as well.
So, this is a very cool breakbeat that I've found.
I knew I wanted to mess with it and play with it.
So, when you have things in slice mode,
there's a number of ways that you can slice and dice them.
So, by default, we have things set to transient and again,
transient is just this place where a sound is definitively beginning.
Depending on the file,
that may or not actually be the case.
You can see that some of these aren't fully sliced.
I've got some transients that are
blue which is indicating to me this is where the slice currently is.
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Just playing these back and I can increase the sensitivity which would create
more slices or I can decrease the sensitivity
which would result in less and longer slices.
So, I have this set to 80 percent which
is giving me a decent amount of slices but not too many.
I can also just delete things.
I can move them by hand if I choose,
and this is true of any of these modes as well.
If I wanted to slice it by beat,
it's then going to look at the grid and say beat one, beat two, beat three,
beat four, so on and so forth,
depending on the division that I set.
So, this was set to a quarter note.
So, it's now sliced into a quarter note but you can see this isn't quite
perfect because of the file itself,
whether or not it was warped or not.
I can go through region,
I can just say split this up into eight pieces,
two pieces, 14 pieces, 17 pieces.
It's actually quite fun if you have a sequence that you are playing back which I do here.
I'm going to, this is just a MIDI sequence.
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Open this back up.
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So, what I'm going to do is just mess with
the number of regions as this is playing and you'll hear
this sample kind of change and modulate as I am adjusting these parameters.
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I can also decide to slice it manually.
I can say you slice here,
you slice there, slice, slice.
I can move things around very easily just by
grabbing the slice marker and moving it wherever I want to.
So, there's a lot of ways to
literally slice and dice this depending on what it is you want to do.
I want to go back to transient setting on my 80 percent sensitivity.
I have a few options of how the sample is going to play back.
So, at a mono setting,
[NOISE] I'm only able to play one slice at a time [NOISE].
So, even though I'm currently pushing two, one is playing back.
if I choose Poly, I will then have the option of playing two at the same time.
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So, depending on what the sample is,
you might want that overlap and in this case,
this is a drumbeat.
So, I want things to be clearly delineated and I do not want that to happen.
Thru is going to play the sample from
wherever it's beginning all the way through to the end.
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It's also going to be dependent on this trigger or gate settings.
So, if I have trigger selected when I play the sample,
it's just going to trigger it and play it all the way until the end here.
If I have a gate on,
it's only going to play it while I have my finger down on the pad.
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This is thru of all the playback options.
So, if I go to mono here,
I'm then only going to be able to play this last sample one at a time here.
So, if I [NOISE] play it very quickly,
I'm only getting a little bit.
If I hold this down,
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and it's actually listening to where my finger is as I'm pressing
down a midi note here or I could just trigger it [MUSIC],
and always play the full sample.
You again can warp these things.
You can stretch them.
There's a lot you can do,
there's a whole panel here of
filtration LFO and envelope manipulation that you can create.
I have a beat repeat that I put on as well.
So, if we just play this back [MUSIC] and
put some delays [MUSIC].
So, with Simpler, it's very powerful.
It's saying here's a piece of audio,
you play with it, you do something,
you create something out of it.
It's very quick and easy to get creative with,
and it's a great way to create custom instruments.
It's much different than pulling in a preset that
maybe sounds like something somebody else has already made.
You can create something that's highly
customizable and end really reactive and fun to play with.
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