Saving your sliced samples.

So I chopped up a sample and then out of habit I went to save so in case of a crash I still had my chops.

Well I noticed after I saved my project "with samples".. all the slices i had disappeared and went back to the regular 16 slices.

How can I save that group or slice points that I made?

 

Right click on the group in the sequencer and click "Save As.." - you can open it in another project with the chops saved. I use this for drum breaks more than samples.

 

i got it.. thank you..

i also have another question.. in the step sequencer.. when I try and edit the notes i play out with my mouse.. it either disappears or snaps to grid. how can I move them around without it snapping to a grid?

 

I just posted a video on how to save breaks out as a group but either way when you save a project you should save all samples and sound and make sure the beat has it's own new folder so everything is inside a folder with the beats name. makes transporting so much easier.

 

So Company Hen, when you Save As, are copies of the slices re-saved to the harddrive, or are these files just references to slice points of the original sample? Is the file saved a group file? I don't want to clog up my hard drives with chops of samples on top of the original sample that is already on the harddrive.

Thanks in advance.

 

bump.

 

I think you have to truncate the separate slices and then save them if you don't want them just to be saved as the entire original sample with modified start and end points.

 

you can save it as each sample truncated or save the samples with the start end points there. either way. I usually prefer to save my breaks in 2 different ways. 1 with the full samples and I do a seperate one where I have everything truncated and assigned how I like then I can tag the samples and have them neatly organized in my library. just make sure to name your samples accordingly

 

Ah,

So it does indeed sound like the samples are being re-saved to the hard drive again whether they are truncated or whether you take an original break and save with start and end points. Seems like Maschine would be intelligent enough with the 2nd option to know that you have not altered the original break, just added start/end points, therefore don't make a duplicate. Guru and Geist produce slice reference files. Much smaller real estate on the hard drive.

Thanks guys for the reply!