When you experiment with the use of vocal and audio samples for slicing, you begin to experience a new sonic property of your sound. With Ableton Suite 8 you are able to slice an audio sample along grid or warp marker points to a drum rack. Simply right click (ctrl-click for MAC users) any audio sample in the session or arrangement view and you will see the option for “slice to MIDI track.” After you select this, you are given an option for slice length as well as presets. Each drum slice is mapped to various macros, depending on which configuration you choose. You can then easily adjust the ADSR of the sample as well as loop, start point and length of the sample. This makes for some interesting new manipulations as well as the ability to arpeggiate a long sample with a MIDI sequence. If you would like a template file, leave a comment and I will make one for everyone to download.

You can watch a video tutorial that I stream live below.

I was about to throw away an empty milk jug today when I made the desion that I will not do it now or ever again. I think about how many times the trash seems full but it’s nothing but empty marketing shells. We are finished as people, and as a company, with filling land fills with empty unnessesary waste.

Starting today, Monday July 12th 2010, ACEO Productions, nor any of it’s founders, will no longer put any recyclable aluminum can, paper, plastic or glass container in the trash. Just because Texas is not recycle-friendly does not mean that we have to follow. We will also actively reduce the amount that we will consume in an effort to reduce the small but very important carbon footprint that we as a small group of people leave behind. This is a concious effort to do something positive and giving with everything that we do. This is our mission and it is just realized in another form today with this post.

This is about respect among nothing else. We love the earth and all of the wonderful sights, sounds, people, and other matter that really matters in this world. You as an individual can join our effort to reduce but remember, you are your own true motivator and everything else is just a carrot.