Sample operations

Drum sounds and your own samples are recordings, so you can play a window of them, faster or slower, forwards or backwards. In TuttiDAW every variation becomes its own pad in a Drum Rack, so the result opens in the studio exactly as it sounds.

Window: begin and end

.begin(...) and .end(...) set where a sample starts and stops, as a fraction of its length (0 to 1).

s("oh*4").end("<0.1 0.3 0.6 1>")

Speed

.speed(n) plays a sample n times as fast: 2 is an octave up, 0.5 an octave down, and a negative speed plays it backwards.

s("cp*4").speed("1 2 0.5 -1")

Gating and choke groups: clip and cut

A sample normally plays to its end. .clip(1) stops it at the end of its step (.clip(0.5) halfway). .cut(n) puts sounds in a choke group: a new hit stops the one still ringing, like an open hi-hat closed by a closed one.

s("[oh hh]*4").cut(1)

s("oh*8").clip("<1 0.25>")

Cutting into parts: chop and striate

.chop(n) cuts every event, and its sample, into n parts played one after another. .striate(n) plays the whole pattern n times, a later part of each sample each time.

s("cr").chop(8).speed("<1 -1>")

s("bd sd").striate(4)

Slices: slice and splice

.slice(n, indices) cuts a sample into n equal slices and plays the slices the index pattern names - the classic way to rearrange a break. .splice does the same and changes each slice's speed so it fills its step exactly.

s("cr").slice(8, "0 7 2 5 4 3 6 1")

s("oh").splice(4, "0 2 1 [3 3]")

Fitting to the tempo: loopAt and fit

.loopAt(n) changes a sample's speed so it lasts exactly n cycles - ideal for loops and breaks. .fit() makes each sample fill its own step. Both follow the tempo, so the loop stays in time when you change setcpm.

s("cr").loopAt(1).chop(4)

Scrubbing

.scrub("position:speed") starts the sample at a position, like moving a tape head.

s("cr*4").scrub("0 0.5:2 0.25 0.75:0.5")

With your own loops

These operations are at their best on your own recordings. Declare them with samples(...) (see Sounds) and slice away:

samples({ break: "https://example.com/loops/break-120.wav" })
s("break").loopAt(2).slice(8, "0 1 <2 6> 3 [4 4] 5 6 <7 1>")

A pitched instrument - a synth or a General MIDI name - plays its notes as written: these operations only change sampled drums and samples.