Work With Slicer Pads - 1010music Blackbox User Manual

Work with Slicer Pads

Slicer Mode is useful when a single WAV file has multiple sections that you want to
trigger independently. For example, if you have a drum riff you may want to trigger
different drum hits within the drum riff independently. Or if you have a recording of a
vocal track, you may get an interesting effect if you skip around to playback different
words or phrases over time.
In order to use Slicer mode effectively, you will need to identify slices within the WAV
file. Blackbox can automatically detect the slice points within the wave file, and you can
manually add or remove slice points. The WAV files in the folder LOOPMASTERS\01
Loops\Drums are good examples to try with slice mode.
The following parameters are specific to Slicer Mode:
Parameter Description
Loop Mode Controls whether the slice playback is
looped. This does not work with Launch
Mode of Trigger. Use Launch Mode of Gate
or Toggle if you want to loop slices.
Slice Indicates which slice will be played when a
note is triggered. You can use modulation
to vary this value over time.
Slice Seq When Slice Seq is set to a value other than
None, each trigger received on the
modulation source assigned to this
parameter will advance the selection of the
next slice to play.
The value of this parameter controls the
order in which slice selection is advanced.
In addition to setting parameters for a slicer pad, you also need to create the slices. There are three ways to do this:
manually, auto scan, and slice to grid. When you configure slices manually, you set each loop point yourself by defining and
removing splits. The manual process may also be used to refine the results after you use auto scan or slice to grid. When you
use auto scan, blackbox uses an internal algorithm to decide where to place the splits. You can control the sensitivity of the
algorithm. When you use slice to grid, you define a fixed number of slices and blackbox will create splits that evenly divide
the WAV file into the specified number of slices.
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Range of Values
On, Off
1 through the number of slices in the
pad.
None: This parameter will not be used
to control the order of playback of slices.
Forward: A trigger will cause the
playback to move to the next slice.
Backwards: A trigger will cause the
playback to move to the previous slice
Random: A trigger will cause the
playback to move to a randomly
selected slice
Stagger: A trigger will cause the
playback to move through the slices in a
somewhat random way. It will move
forward a few slices, then back a couple
of slices, and repeat.
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