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LiveLab Live Slice - Slice up your life

LiveLab Live Slice is a vsti beat slicer that can do much more than just slice your beats. You can load up to 64 wave files at a time, slice them up and combine the slices in the multitrack arranger. Each slice is coloured based on the content so you can easily tell them apart - this makes manual rearranging a lot easier. If you find arranging beats in a piano roll / drum map a bit awkward at times, LiveSlice will definately change the way you make music.

With up to 256 slice on each loop liveslice is as much a granular synthesizer as a beat slicer. As you can also sequence notes you can do simple melodic arrangements too (bases and arps).

The real fun begins when you start using the graphical parameter sequencer. You can sequence amplitude, panning, attack, decay, release, pitch, probability and reverse for each slice just by drawing with the mouse creating anything from subtle variations to total chaos.

Also, LiveSlice is able to record incoming audio. This can be used live to capture loops from real instruments and remix them instantly or in the studio to quicly record 1-32 bar loops from any instrument and gain instant access to the powerful and intuitive rearranging capabilities of the LiveSlice arranger.

LiveSlice has no internal effects - instead you can sequence midi CC’s that can control for example your favourite filter plugin - load it as an insert effect and let LiveSlice control the cutoff frequency with different values for each slice.

This will work in all hosts that support midi routing between plugins - part of the VST2.0 standard. This includes Cubase, Ableton Live, Energy XT, Tracktion, Jeskola Buzz, and Fruity loops.

Additionally everything in liveslice can be controlled by midi. You can sequence playback as well as randomization of slices, arrangements and parameters. Why not connect an external LFO and let it control the pitch? The possibilities are endless. Several arrangements can be triggered simultaniously - great for layering arrangements.

LiveSlice was originally written for the freeware jeskola buzz. This new VST version is a complete rewrite with tons of new features and much greater stability. LiveSlice for buzz is still available and quite popular. Although the buzz community is quite small LiveSlice has been downloaded more than 3500 times placing it among the top 3 downloads on buzzchines.com since it’s release.

What’s New in version 1.35:
New features / changes:

Spline interpolation = better sound quality
Zero dB line in slicer
improved the grid / event display
gui opens faster
Improved tolerance for erroneous wav files
selecting a parameter now terminates the current shift+LMB selection
shift+LMB selecting a slice deselects the current parameter to indicate that parameter values cannot be changed;
the delete buttons now work as normal windows buttons (if you release the mouse outside the button, no action is taken;

Live Slice features:

Automatic or manual slicing
ACIDized loop import and export
Multitrack sequencer with snap / quantize
Host sync
Audio recording - synced to the host - can be used as a realtime dicer / granulator
Hi quality resampling using spline interpolation
Low CPU usage
Integrated loop browser with preview
full MIDI control
up to 32 tracks, 64 loops, 256 slices
resizable gui, zoom in slicer
up to 8 outputs with individual slice routing
integrated loop browser with preview
loads all uncompressed .wav formats
supports any sample rate

Download Demo + Manual (Limitation: when you reload a song all the loops are replaced by a demo loop built into the plugin and the default loop path is not saved):