BeatCleaver: Make loops and DJ samples for your sample decks

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BeatCleaver: Make loops and DJ samples for your sample decks

Hi guys,

What are you guys using to make samples for your sampler decks? Does everyone just use loop packs or what?

I’ve just released an updated version of my sampling tool called BeatCleaver, and I think it might be useful for a lot of DJs here. This new version adds support for slicing from MP3 and M4A files, fluid zoom, and slicing songs by fixed bar or beat intervals.

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I’ve tried to make this a handy tool for sampling from songs, so you can find loops and save them for use in sampler decks for when you DJ later. (Edit: clarified the previous sentence) I’m very much looking for feedback to see if this is useful for DJs and how good the workflow is. If you’re interested, please grab a copy of the trial and let me know how BeatCleaver works for you!

There’s a bunch of different ways you can use this as a DJ:

  1. If you’re still using Audacity for cutting stuff up, you know how frustrating the UI can be. Navigation and previewing loops is way easier in BeatCleaver.

  2. You can grab loops from songs and build up a collection of loops to use later in your sampler decks in Traktor, Mixxx, or Virtual DJ.

  3. If you’ve written a song and you want to resequence it live, you can do a multi-track export from your DAW/tracker/etc and then slice up the tracks every X bars with BeatCleaver. I used to write stuff in energyXT2 and there was no sane way to export my tracks so I could remix them live in Renoise. Now there is!

I’ve also got (edit: had!) two free copies to give out to the first two people who try it out and post some feedback here. :slight_smile: Update: That was quick… I’ve contacted the two members who posted feedback first, thanks for the support guys!

Thanks guys, and I appreciate any feedback you have!
Albert

P.S. Moderators - I hope this type of post is OK, please let me know if it’s not!

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What do you mean while djing, can you do it on the fly ? cause that would be sick.

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Ah, sorry for the confusion. You can’t do it on the fly - it’s more something you would do before your set.

Would it be useful to do it on the fly? I thought about maybe hacking up something that could grab songs from Mixxx’s main decks, let you slice it, and then throw it to the sampler decks. I’m not really sure what the ideal workflow for that would be or what cool tricks you could pull off with it…

Thanks!

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  1. if you’re DJing live with Traktor you can grab loops easily - with just Traktor
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Ahhh, alright. No for me, i dont have time to prepare for mixes, i just go with the flow.

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ahhhhh I fail at writing hard today… I just reworded that, hopefully it’s a bit clearer. Thanks for pointing that out. I need help today. :slight_smile:

Ok, good to know mr.drumer.boy! I’ll keep thinking about ways we could approach a more spontaneously workflow for live performance…

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Downloading this now, I’m going to play with it tonight and post some feedback. I hate using audacity for making loops and samples, so I’m kinda excited about this.

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I would like to share with you, I found some good dj samples (click) free samples to try.
You can download free samples and create your tracks :slight_smile:

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Best sample making program I’ve used. Period.

So quick and easy to use. Intuitive, and I really like the scroll wheel zoom.

Set the start, click the stop, export. So simple. Really nice job dude! What would make it even better? Colored waveforms like Traktor. But, VERY well done.
:slight_smile:

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Just downloaded so will give some feedback when I’ve had a play about!

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2nd!

I was playing with it last night, my roommate saw it on reddit and told me about it. I think its a very simple clean cut program. I’ve never used or seen anything like it before. It was very simple to use and it had me creating a bunch of little samples in no time. I think I might compile some to make some scratch samples…perfect to prepare for the F1!

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Third damnit! Hehe playing with it now, this looks very cool. If you decide you have a third free copy count me in :wink:

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I normally use Traktor’s decks for a lot of my sampling, especially if live, just loop, drag, and drop and it automatically saves it.

Working on a new mixtape right now where I’ll be sampling a lot of things so going to give this guy a try. Will let you know!

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vdj does it by looping a section of a track, then pressing the record button on one of the samples… it will save the beatgrid information so you can beatlock the samples aswell