Beat chopping program with a randomization feature?

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  1. kintozero

    kintozero Kapellmeister

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    In the late 90s I used a program called Zs-1b Amen specifically designed to chop the Amen break (for Jungle etc). side note: I found out the author made it open source a few years ago: https://github.com/ziadkhouri/ZS-1-Amen

    What I liked about this program was you could randomly generate new reshuffled patterns. The drawback was it only worked with mono files.

    I am looking for something similar, either standalone or VST-based. I am specifically trying to chop short loops into 4, 8, 16 slices, mute certain sections, and RANDOMLY shuffle these pieces around to generate different breaks.

    Again I am looking for something with a randomize feature to mix up the slices.
    I have attached an original/remix example below.

    Cheers
     

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  3. bluerover

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    Very cool! I've never used that program. Long ago I would use these stand-alone programs :

    1.) Recycle
    2.) Wave Surgeon
    3.) Tuareg

    If I want to use this technique nowadays (which is a great technique) I'll bring up FL Studio and use Fruity Slicer, or SliceX. I'm talking randomly re-ordering slices.

    Ableton can easily do this with some plugin & LFO/RND routing. Or a crazy M4L device from the repository a user created and shared (...for free).

    There are some old 32 bit plugins (can't remember names) that can do this.

    **edit** Phatmatik Pro, New Sonic Arts 'Vice' (does it randomize though?), ........

    Love to see other users responses.....
     
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    turnado also has a few options designed for beat mangling, gives very cool result, currently using it for a remix
     
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    Rhythmiq by Accusonus does exactly this. They also have Regroover which gives more control is less "random".
     
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    [reserved for reaper tutorial and gif]
     
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    Sugar Bytes Egoist is one of the most intuitive ones to work with.
     
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  10. Stuck In The 80s

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    Serato sample has a random slicing function
     
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    HY Slicer by HY Plugins does this.

     
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  12. ZUK

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    Can help:

    ACCUSONUS Rhythmiq
    Loomer Cumulus
    AudioDamage Replicant
    Xfer Nerve
     
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    i do this with the akai mpc software.. full disclosure, i do have the mpc hardware but the software does it too
     
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    Stylus RMX has the chaos element to it
     
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    If Reaper is your DAW, the script MKslicer is a good choice.
     
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    Big Fish Audio - Momentum
     
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    ive always stuck to the ones in my daw slicex and fl slicer or i do it manually
     
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    LiveSlice from the old days.
     
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