Slicing

Slicer

What it does Divides audio into discrete slices using one of five detection algorithms: equal divisions, fixed duration, transient detection, silence detection, or manual markers.

When you’d reach for it You have a drum loop, a vocal phrase, or a field recording and you want to chop it into individual hits or segments for rearranging, processing, or loading into the sequencer.

Quick example

1. Feed a breakbeat loop from a Load Audio node.
2. Set Mode to Transient and raise Sensitivity until every kick and snare gets its own slice.
3. Adjust any boundary by dragging it in the waveform viewer.
4. Connect the Slices output to a Collage or Slices Parser.

Parameters

Slicing Assistant

Filter (collapsible, toggleable)

Slices Parser

What it does Unpacks a slice container into separate individual outputs — one per slice — so you can process each slice independently.

When you’d reach for it You sliced a vocal into phrases and want to apply different effects to each phrase before reassembling them.

Quick example

1. Connect a Slicer’s Slices output.
2. The node automatically creates one output per slice.
3. Route each output through its own processing chain (pitch shift one, filter another).
4. Feed the results into a Slices Concatener.

Parameters

This node has no user parameters. Output port count adjusts automatically to match the incoming slice count.

Slices Concatener

What it does Gathers individual audio inputs back into a single slice container, ready for Collage or memory slot export.

When you’d reach for it You processed slices individually through a Slices Parser workflow and need to reassemble them into a container.

Quick example

1. Set Inputs to match the number of processed slices coming from your chain.
2. Connect each processed slice to its corresponding input.
3. Route the Slices output to a Collage or Slice Memory Slot.

Parameters

Collage

What it does Assembles slices into a final audio output with independent envelope, pitch, filter, and time stretch controls on every entry in the sequence.

When you’d reach for it You chopped a drum break and want to rearrange the hits, pitch some down, stretch others, and crossfade between them — all non-destructively.

Quick example

1. Connect a Slicer’s Slices output.
2. Reorder entries by dragging them in the viewer.
3. Select an entry and tweak its pitch down 3 semitones in the Pitch tab.
4. Add a 20 ms fade-in on an entry that clicks at the edit point.
5. The assembled audio appears on the Output.

Parameters

Per-entry parameters are edited by selecting an entry in the viewer. Four tabs organize the controls:

Time tab

Pitch tab

Filter tab

ADSR tab

Memory Slot

What it does Sends a single audio buffer to a numbered memory slot so the Player and Sequencer can trigger it.

When you’d reach for it You finished designing a sound in the node graph and want to play it from the grid pads or sequence it.

Quick example

1. Connect your final processed audio to the input.
2. Set Slot to the pad number you want (0 — 127).
3. Run the graph. The slot lights up as “Assigned” in the parameter panel.
4. Switch to Player mode and trigger the pad.

Parameters

Slice Memory Slot

What it does Sends every slice from a container to consecutive memory slots in one go, preserving any per-slice processing from a Collage upstream.

When you’d reach for it You sliced a break into 16 hits and want all of them on sequencer pads without wiring 16 separate Memory Slot nodes.

Quick example

1. Connect a Slicer or Collage’s Processed Slices output.
2. Leave Auto Start on — it finds the first empty slot automatically.
3. Run the graph. All slices land on consecutive pads, named and ready.
4. Switch to Player mode and play the kit.

Parameters