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Best way to chop spoken word into samples?

mistercharliemistercharlie
in General App Discussion

I recorded a few minutes a vocalist making vocal sounds, and speaking improvised phrases. I want to chop up the sounds and phrases, then use those samples in Ableton, and on an OP-Z for chopping. And probably in Egoist and Samplr too

Possible methods:

  1. Logic strip silence, trim and delete the cruft, and then shove all the samples together to make a sample chain.
  2. Same as above, but export as separate clips.
  3. Same as 1, but using Ferrite’s on iPad, which is amazing and uses Apple Pencil.

Then, I would need to get those clips into Ableton, and the OP-Z. The latter is easy. I can use the OP-1 Drum Utility to make kits. But what about Ableton? Would I use the Drum Rack? Make a chain and use Simplr?

I haven’t used Ableton’s Sampler yet. I am quite familiar with Simpler, though.

Or am I overthinking it? Is there an app that can do this for me?

Comments

  • JanKunJanKun
    edited April 2020

    Not sure my answer will be really helpful but the latest update of Auditor introduced slicing. If you own the app you could consider this option as well. If you don't own the app and samples and loops are a big part of your workflow, Auditor might be worth checking. A bit steep learning curve but it works really great. It also has batch processing which is really handy.

  • drewinnitdrewinnit

    I'd also suggest Auditor, the new features are made for this sort of process

  • BenBen

    If I understand the question it’s sounds like ReSlice and Samplist will do these things for you.

  • mistercharliemistercharlie

    I own Auditor, but I find it a bit clunky. I must admit I hadn't thought of that though. I'll check it out. I'm just looking for the least frustrating way to do it!

  • anicktanickt
    edited April 2020

    @mistercharlie said:
    I own Auditor, but I find it a bit clunky. I must admit I hadn't thought of that though. I'll check it out. I'm just looking for the least frustrating way to do it!

    Recently did just this in Auditor. Don’t really need to use the slicing features. In the main window define a selection. The easiest way is to position the playhead at beginning of first phrase, tap Selection Start to Playhead, move playhead to end of phrase, tap Selection End to Playhead, lock the selection, tap Split Selection, slide the locked region to next phrase by dragging the red handle, adjust the blue handle, split, etc. Then do Save Regions as Separate Files. It’s a good idea to create a destination folder first because you can’t during the save function.

    I thought it was clunky at first because I was trying to drag the selection markers around to define selections. I found that dragging/zooming to find a rough position, placing the playhead and then tapping Selection Start/End to Playhead is a much easier way of defining selections. In fact, using the tools at the top of the screen and not trying to do everything by dragging in the waveform is much more efficient overall.

    I tried using the slicing tools for this but due to the irregularities of spoken word it was quicker to just do it in the main window.

  • jazzmessjazzmess

    Resonic pro is great for this !!!

  • mistercharliemistercharlie

    Nice!

    Thanks @anickt. I will give that a shot. I just cut up one of the tracks in Logic, and got 128 samples from it. That took 20-30 min. Sofa with iPad is way more comfy than iMac on desk though.

  • ecamburnecamburn

    Ableton itself has decent audio editing capabilities. An added benefit of using Ableton is warping (timestretching)

  • klownshedklownshed

    For logic I’d use the convert to EXs sampler option. As you said strip silence then place all the samples one after another and combine into new audio file, then create an EXS sample from it.

    You can then play the samples back via MIDI and modulate the note length and other parameters, mess with ADSR envelopes, pitch, etc in EXS and even play with arpeggiatorrs. Options are limitless.

    For Live I’d just arrange the clips in the arrange window. Live has plenty of ways of altering pitch etc for each slice.

    For iOS you could use the EXS sample and import into AudioLayer if you have it.

    If not export the slices as individual samples and load into whichever sampler you like best.

  • mistercharliemistercharlie

    My aim is to end up in Ableton. I like Logic for prepping audio though, as I’m more used to it, and the strip silence helps a lot.

  • Samflash3Samflash3

    @mistercharlie said:
    My aim is to end up in Ableton. I like Logic for prepping audio though, as I’m more used to it, and the strip silence helps a lot.

    Beatmaker 3?

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @drewinnit said:
    I'd also suggest Auditor, the new features are made for this sort of process

    +1 for Auditor. I found it somewhat clunky at first BUT that was really just my being used to a different editor. Once I had spent a few sessions with it and gotten used to the different way that it dealt with making selections, I started to find it a breeze to work in. It can do so much that the other editors I use can't.

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