FXpansion Guru 1.5 - Manual (Page 6)

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Slicer
We’ve given GURU’s slicer a major overhaul – it is now much more accurate, and has a ‘Sensi-
tivity’ control allowing you to adjust how it responds to possible hit points in your loops. In addi-
tion, its slicing and score extraction process is now velocity-aware - slices and scores are now
generated in such a way that hit volumes are consistent when using the sounds from one loop
with the score from another, or the score from a loop with a kit, or the slices from a loop with a
pattern.
As well as the ‘Sensitivity’ control, there is also an ‘Accuracy’ control which specifies how much
CPU time GURU should give to analysing the slice points. Higher accuracy means more pre-
cise, but slower, slicing.
The Slicer can now be toggled between SINGLE mode, in which one slice is loaded per pad,
and FULL mode, where up to 8 slices are loaded per pad, using the Layers. This allows Guru to
fit long loops (up to 8 slices) in a single engine; it also supports a Linear Scoring mode where
instead of smart-slicing by drum type, the slices are simply mapped to pads ..6 in the order
they occur in the loop file, much like a conventional slicer.
When slicing loops and generating Scores, the slicer is now velocity aware – each score note is
assigned a velocity based on the loudness of the slice from which it was generated. This gives
much more useful playback when replacing the slices for a given score with a pre-made kit.
“Equal 6ths” has now been replaced by a “CHOP” mode controlled by the sensitivity slider,
allowing you to set a chop length from /4 note down to /64th note. Hold SHIFT to set the sen-
sitivity control to non-power-of- values in this mode (by default it snaps /4, 8, 6, 3, 64).