FXpansion GURU - Manual (Page 14)

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Graphs are very closely linked to Patterns – each of the 24
Patterns in each Engine has individual Graph layouts. All Pad
lanes in each Pattern can have individual Velocity, Pan, Coarse
Pitch, Fine Pitch, Filter Cutoff, Filter Resonance, Repeat, Shift
and Scrub Graphs.
1:2 SmartSlice: GURU’s enlightened ap-
proach to drumloop-slicing
GURU introduces SmartSlice… a novel, efficient way to slice
drumloops. As well as performing a transient-based auto-slice
on loops, GURU also analyzes the frequency information of
the slices and categorizes them into kick, snare, hihat and
percussion hits. The best-matching 4 slices in these categories
are then mapped onto the corresponding Pads.
This intelligent slicing and mapping means you can experi-
ment with different audio loops effortlessly, instead of having
to painstakingly re-categorize the slices of new loops manu-
ally. Finally there’s no longer any need for the tedious process
of building a manually-categorized drumsound library with
uniform keymapping – any audio is usable in GURU within
seconds!
The procedure works as shown in the diagram to the right. The
audio file is first analyzed for transients and sliced according to
them. Then, each slice is frequency-analyzed, and the best 4
kick, snare, hihat and percussion samples are mapped to the
relevant Pads, while any other slices are discarded.
There are other ways to slice loops in GURU… you can
perform a SmartSlice using Score mode, which also extracts
the Pattern from the loop based on the SmartSlicing results.
Alternatively, you can use the Equal-16
th s slice mode, avoiding
the SmartSlicing process altogether.
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Analysis of hit types 2
Transient analysis and slicing
3 Assign slices to pads
Snare
samples
Percussion
samples
Kick
samples
Hi hat
samples