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CHAPTER 16. INSTRUMENT, DRUM AND EFFECT RACKS 230
pads that are visible on your screen. If you scroll the pad overview to show a different set of
pads, your controller will update automatically.
16.6.2 Slicing
Although Live automatically warps audio les to match your Set's tempo, you can get even
more exibility out of your loops via a process called slicing. Slicing involves dividing the
audio into small chunks and assigning each chunk to a single MIDI note, leaving your original
audio le unaffected. The Drum Rack provides an ideal environment for working with sliced
les, and most of the setup happens automatically.
To get started, select an audio clip from within your Set or the Browser, click (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) to open the clip's context menu, and select the Slice to New MIDI Track
command:
The Slicing Dialog.
The Slicing dialog offers a list of slicing divisions, as well as a chooser to select the Slicing
Preset. The top chooser allows you to slice at a variety of beat resolutions or according to
the clip's Warp Markers. Since a Rack can contain a maximum of 128 chains, Live won't let
you proceed if your choice would result in more than 128 slices. You can x this by either
setting a lower slice resolution or by selecting a smaller region of the clip to slice. If your
audio le is in REX format, the slicing will be based on the le's internal timing information
and you won't see this chooser.
The Slicing Preset chooser contains a few Ableton-supplied slicing templates, as well as any
of your own that you may have placed in your Library's default presets folder.
Once you've made your slicing choices and clicked OK, a number of things will happen: