Trying to figure out a way to chop my songs into sections loops bars then load them into Sunhouse sensory percussion soft. Something like a auto batch chop.

 

Last edited: Oct 28, 2023

you have a wav file and you want to cut it into segments you can use as one-shot hit samples?

a batch processor like SoundForge style would not work very well. you would be able to get it to chop all songs at 1:00, 2:00, etc for example. That does not mean it is finding a good SampleStart point. It would be random results. If you set the BPM of your DAW to that of the file, you could cut along the grid. If you were cutting big sections, it would work ok. But it will still not solve your problem if you want to make samples for this drum software. You still have to zoom in and edit more.

But I think you what you want, is something with hitpoint detection. In which case I would still use the DAW, just manually chopping things up at correct zero crossings to use as samples. Logic is very good for this kind of editing/slicing. Maybe your DAW can also.

You could use Recycle. But it has limitations such as length of file, bitrate, etc. (no more than 5:00). It does automatic hitpoint detection for slices. But it is also on a file-to-file basis.

You could use a standard wave editor (wavelab, audacity, Waveknife, SF), and do it all manually.

 

thanks for this info...looks like a good place to get started.

 

In Reaper you can export sections of the track as WAVs in minutes. You just have to use markers to mark the sections. Pretty easy.

 

Never used Reaper but that sounds good! thanks

 

Have you ever used SampleRobot? You can find a pc copy on sister site. or official page is https://samplerobot.com

If I had a use for something like your Evans kit, I would also want it available in the toolbox. I used to use it for Auto-Sampling external hardware, but it has lots of other features. It's somewhere between a sampler and wave editor. You can use it to auto-sample the output of a plugin, so it basically uses Midi to play each note on the keyboard (however you specify) and then it records a wave sample, trims it, renames it, and so on. It can do round robin so you can do multiple velocity layers as you want. You could snag entire kits of samples from drum machines, drum synth plugins and also from sampler like Kontakt or Falcon, etc.

It probably will not do exactly what your thread is about, but it's likely the first additional tool I would explore to see how it fits with the Evans kit. It's like $200 and it's main functions are aimed at creating samples with as little manual work as possible. For what they charge, it has to be pretty damn good at it. (it is).