Sampler & Slicer

Turning any sound into an instrument.

Recording, mapping, chopping and mangling your own material. The fastest route to a sound nobody else has.

Sampling

Capture and map.

1. Recording your own samples
2. Trimming, normalising and looping a sample
3. Playing one sample at different pitches
4. Tuning a sample, and why the root note matters
5. Shaping a sample with envelopes

Slicing

Breaking a loop apart.

1. Slicing: finding the hits
2. Re-sequencing slices
3. Stutter, roll and glitch techniques
4. Stretching and pitch artefacts as an effect

Resampling

The producer secret weapon.

1. Resampling: recording your own output
2. Building a sound in layers of resampling
3. Build an instrument from a household object
4. Sampler final