Slicer: slices and source punch

PortableDJs

Hi guys,

Woke up early this morning and tried to use slicing to mix a loop I am working on.

Pretty simple stuff:

Bar 1, 2, 3: original loop

Bar 4: sliced loop (variation)

Whatever approach I take (tried many: auto sampling, using the Wave button, route source and sliced loop to the same fxs) the sliced loop always sounds "weaker" than the source, you can definitely hear the difference between the two.

What am I doing wrong in your opinion?

Thank you in advance.

G.

Tommaso Ferrarese

Are you using a lot of reverse? That could be a reason. Another thing could be if you have the velocity setting active in the sampler, and the triggers aren't at 127 velocity

tetsuneko

You can also set velocity sensitivity to off in the Sampler, no? That would make those sounds ignore velocity altogether

Tommaso Ferrarese

Are you using a lot of reverse? That could be a reason. Another thing could be if you have the velocity setting active in the sampler, and the triggers aren't at 127 velocity

PortableDJs

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/128967#Comment_128967

Good point Tommaso, unfortunately none of the above in my case. I am not using any reverse and velocity is set to fixed on my Maschine MK2.

D-One

am not using any reverse and velocity is set to fixed on my Maschine MK2.

Fixed to what? did you manually change it to 127? Otherwise the default value is 100.

PortableDJs

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/128967#Comment_128967

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/129205#Comment_129205

Yes you are right guys, thank you for helping me out with this.

On Maschine MK2 after chopping the sample, do the following:

1) select the group containing the slices

2) go to PAD MODE

3) go to FIXED VEL tab using arrow keys

4) set velocity to 127

Now when playing chops/slices on that group and recording them they get placed on the sequencer at full velocity/volume

STILL

The above do not apply when programming/writing a sequence using the sequencer with a mouse/cursor, in that case velocity has to be adjusted on the sequencer manually and individually for each slice.

Am I missing something?

Is there a way to actually force velocity on both pad made and sequencer?

tetsuneko

You can also set velocity sensitivity to off in the Sampler, no? That would make those sounds ignore velocity altogether

PortableDJs

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/129245#Comment_129245

Hi, thank you for your reply. I haven't tried that yet (I will though), I guess that when writing the melody on the sequencer (so not through recorded live pads session) the velocity will be still stuck at 100 and will require manual adjustment on each sample, isn'it?

D-One

Unfortunately, Yes.

If you add notes with the mouse it does not follow the HW fixed velocity lvl, it would be a nice quality-of-life feature implementation if they added it.

tetsuneko

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/129262#Comment_129262

I mainly use Maschine+ in standalone, and even when I use it tethered to a computer, I dont touch keyboard & mouse if I can help it, so I honestly wouldn't know