Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 85)

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 Slice To…
The Slice To… button cuts up audio regions and exports the “slices” to the
Performance Panel, Omni Sampler, or directly to a Mixcraft audio track.
Though the audio slices can be any length, you’d typically use this for cutting
up a section of loop or a song into smaller chunks allowing you to create new
beats or loops (using small slices), rearrange sections of a song (with larger slices),
or anything in between. Clicking the Slice To… button opens this window:
Slice By defines how the audio will be sliced.
 Beats slices by the note value defined in the pop-up menu to the right.
This works well for slicing beats and loops into small “chunks.”
 Measures works the same as Beats, but is defined in number of measures in
the pop-up menu to the right, making it more appropriate for larger chunks
of music.
 Transients slices according to audio transients detected by Mixcraft.
The sensitivity level is defined by the slider to the right according to the
amplitude level in percentage; the lower the slider setting, the more sensitive,
thus creating more slices.
 Warp Markers slices according to the location of warp markers; you must
have warp markers already created in the audio region (see Warp, pg. 80)
 Limit To Selection
If a region of audio is currently selected, checking this box ensures that only audio
within the selected region is exported as slices.
 No Slices Before Measure 1
This prevents the export of slices before the first measure of a loop.
(Desirable if you’ve manually relocated a loop’s start point.)
 Confine To Loop Area
Checking this box ensures that slices are only exported from audio between
the
Loop Start and Loop End markers of the current clip.
 Send To
Selects the destination for exported slices.
 Performance Panel exports slices to the Performance Panel. The first slice
appears in the currently highlighted grid location, and each additional slice
lands in the next grid location to the right. If you’d like slices to land in on a
particular track, it’s a good idea to highlight the desired grid location prior to
exporting slices.