Slicing Music Beat and Tempo by Beat Slicer

Technology is one of the interesting things in this world. It is because with technology, everyone can do some wonderful things. It is because technology can manipulate something from irrational to become rational. One of the things that can attract you, a person who fall in love with computer programs, is Beat Slicer. Beat Slicer is a computer program that can separate any waveform in smaller component ‘slices’. Its process is beat slicing. The process is to slice and audio file of a drum-loop in a smaller sections and separate different drum-hits. After that, it will be rearranged to become flowing beat.

Beat Slicer is designed for drum-loop manipulation. It will make the beat become has different tempo in music sequencer. It can be increased or decreased. The most famous genres that always feel this process is IDM, glitch, hip-hop and bass and drum. The four of them are important parts that are always rearranged to become a new music. Besides that, glitch and IDM are famous to be rearranged in exciting ways. Even though beat slicing is a process to rearrange the beat and sometimes change particular parts, but the originality of the music is still held out.  It is just to adjust pitch, envelope, and a range of FX parameters.

The main concept of Beat Slicer is only to manipulate drum-loop, but sometimes another part has to rearrange in order to get a good harmonization and creation. Sometimes, if you need several parts to be lost, then you can delete it. You can make it in slow beat or in faster beat. To make a good harmonization and creation, there is usually a person who can hear a tone very well. It is because in order that your harmonization and creation become spectacular.

Beat slicer tutorial from FLStudio

Even though the thing that can be sliced is an audio file, but it helps many people so much, especially music director to make a good harmonization in the music. If there is part that is not suitable, it cannot be deleted or rearranged without disturbing another parts. Beat Slicer will do its job to slice a waveform very well so that it can produce a good music in different tone. There are some samples that can be triggered for example MIDI Key. In MIDI Key, you can assign a sample to a MIDI Key range. Besides that, there is MIDI Controller. It is a sample that can be caused envelope by any regulator value (including pitchbend, aftertouch, etc.) can be caused by attack and release.

Host BPM can be triggered according to the tempo of your scheme. It helps so much in making your project become more interesting. To make different samples play, you can use Velocity. By using it, you can play samples depending on how hard you hit the keys. Nowadays, many people use Beat Slicer because it is make their job more easily. Besides that, it is not too difficult to do. However, if you want to be an expert in doing the process of beat slicing, then you have to take a course or learn it from book seriously.