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Re: slicing audio



Hi Nick,

In session view, if you right click in the clip once you've set your 
loop points, there's an option called 'crop sample'. This will create a 
new file that you can do what you wish with.

hth
Owen

Nick wrote:
> hi everyone,
> 
> I've been trying my darndest to slice short samples out of tracks in
> ableton live and well...every method I know is terrible. I'm currently
> using the method described in the tutorial where I drag the file to
> the arrangement view and then zoom in and position the start and end
> points of the clip or the loop and then repeat until I get it right.
> The problem with this method for me is that it's slow and clumsy - I
> see no reason why I shouldn't be able to zoom in a bit (in the sample
> editor in session view), select the area I want, select a menu item or
> similar and poof - there's a new sample that I can drag into impulse.
> If someone could point me in the right direction for learning how to
> do this in live (perhaps a good tutorial site), that would be great.