Poly Slicer V1.0 Alpha

[Exo]

Here is a plugin I am working on called Poly Slicer...

PolySlicer1A8.fsm

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It is based on my Exo Loop Sample player.

Also here is a github project for the dll if anyone is interested FlowstoneAudioFiles , not the nicest of code but maybe there is something to learn there.

Features include....

*Support for Cue points in wave files. Cue points will be start and end markers for slices.
*Play back slices polyphonically. Each slice is assigned to a note on keyboard starting from "Base" ie C4
*Scroll and zooming in of waveform with nice graphical scroll/zoom bar.
*Multi channel wave files up to 7 channels are supported.

TO DO...

Add support for saving a new wave file containing the loop points (Cue points).
New GUI ( Anyone want to skin this? )

The plugin is pretty simple and nothing overly special but I think there is some nice functionality not available before to Flowstone users.

I do have a basic mp3 to wav converter but I have not included it because of possible patent issues.

Any ideas for improvements? what kinds of other features would you like to see on something like this? I'm thinking I could get all crazy with effects on the slices.

[Walter Sommerfeld]

Hi exo,

this is a quantum leap forward for us FS users.

Glad we have a guru like u on board...

Will check this out later. I'm fiddling with ruby 24/7 right now...

I do have a basic mp3 to wav converter

Could i have a look at that part???

cheers,
Walter

[tulamide]

Here is a plugin I am working on called Poly Slicer...

Very good, Exo. I hope you keep working on it!

I didn't inspect all of its inner workings, so maybe it is my own fault, but clicking in the scrollbar with no wav loaded immediatly crashes Flowstone to desktop with a Visual C++ Runtime Error.

Also, it does not seem to work with 24-bit wav-files. But that's a Flowstone restriction, I assume?

Other than that, I love to see how this is evolving. And since you asked for feature requests: How about a rex file import? That format is only restricted for saving, there is no licence issue with importing. You can download the shared library on Propellerheads website: https://www.propellerheads.se/download/index.cfm?fuseaction=get_article&article=rexsharedlibrary

[Exo]

Hi exo,

this is a quantum leap forward for us FS users.

Glad we have a guru like u on board...

Will check this out later. I'm fiddling with ruby 24/7 right now...

I do have a basic mp3 to wav converter

Could i have a look at that part???

cheers,
Walter

Thanks Walter, let me know what you think.

I can share the mp3 to wav converter, I will post that up later. I'm not adding it to this project though because I will release as a VSTI and then I think comes the patent issues.

[Exo]

Here is a plugin I am working on called Poly Slicer...

Very good, Exo. I hope you keep working on it!

I didn't inspect all of its inner workings, so maybe it is my own fault, but clicking in the scrollbar with no wav loaded immediatly crashes Flowstone to desktop with a Visual C++ Runtime Error.

Also, it does not seem to work with 24-bit wav-files. But that's a Flowstone restriction, I assume?

Other than that, I love to see how this is evolving. And since you asked for feature requests: How about a rex file import? That format is only restricted for saving, there is no licence issue with importing. You can download the shared library on Propellerheads website: https://www.propellerheads.se/download/index.cfm?fuseaction=get_article&article=rexsharedlibrary

Thanks for testing tulamide.

The crash will be a bug, I need to add some fail safe code to prevent that. It is trying to load a sample that doesn't exist on your system.

I had a feeling 24bit wouldn't work, it can be done though I think. I did the 24bit to 32bit conversion and thought "well I doubt that's going to work" but didn't have a 24bit file handy to test, and then forgot about it. I will look for the proper way to convert from 24 to 32bit.

I will look at REX support if it's not to difficult I will add it, thanks.

[kortezzzz]

Was waiting a long time for this, and finally you started it
That's nothing but amazing project. improvements I would like to see:

Tempo synced stretch to each slice would be revolution!!! When disk streaming feature would be added into FS (and sample prims would be updated by dspr, of course), A "virtual guitarist" style project is a matter of time

[Exo]

Small update...

*24bit wavefiles *might* work now I made a change but don't have a file to test or any software that creates 24bit files.

*Fixed crash on moving scrollbar with no file loaded.

I separated the wave loading from the scroll and zoom. This makes much more sense, now the scroll and zoom can be applied to any float array

[djbrynte]

Can this tool do this mybe?

If i load the plugin. If i have a big sample can i load it in and then cut out the parts i want. Like if i wana repeat something?

Then its so cool if it works.

[Exo]

Can this tool do this mybe?

If i load the plugin. If i have a big sample can i load it in and then cut out the parts i want. Like if i wana repeat something?

Then its so cool if it works.

Yes this is how it works. So can play back parts of the sample with your keyboard. Great for slicing up drum loops and stuff like that.

[Exo]

Was thinking exporting the slices to individual wave files would be pretty simple, so I might add an option for that too.