Play long sample across loop

[ethancrawford]

Hi @zabladowski Not sure where in the forum that particular example might be - finding things can be a bit challenging sometimes!

You only really need to determine slices based on the sample duration if you prefer to track lengths of time for a specific reason. Otherwise, Sonic Pi has simple ways of slicing samples into chunks - as @holz mentions, the slice: opt is a simple way to play a chunk of the sample. You can divide the whole sample up into evenly sized slices with num_slices:, and pick which slice each time around a loop to play with slice:.

If you’re only interested in playing successive slices each time, rather than jumbling them up, then you’d just use something like sample ..., slice: tick to play each next slice every time around the loop.

There are other ways you can tell Sonic Pi to slice up a sample - see the following for a few more details:

How do you guys chop samples?

Hi there, still new to Sonic Pi and chopping samples. I downloaded this Sample from Splice Sounds, using Ableton I was able to cut the reminder of the sample in order to make it a perfect loop at 100bpm (4 bars). Works fine in Ableton, however when chopping it in Sonic Pi I don’t get an evenly chopped slice of the sample… I was expecting to divide the sample (4 bars long) in 4 sections of 1 bar (4 beat) each one. This is my approach to chopping samples: live_loop :example do sample x, num_sl…