I've been using this technique in my tracks for a while and thought it would be helpful to share in a simple draft

Steps:

1. Load your sample into the Machiniste

2. Put down a trigger or note on the first step

3. Change pattern length to 1

4. Automate Start from 0 to 100 for the duration of the loop

5. Now you can play with Pitch and track tempo with your loop remaining on time

Compared to the Rasselbock pitch-down hack this has no 'click'. This technique is comparable to current time-stretching algorithm on the AudioTrack. And overall this is much more versatile.

Play around with the steps to achieve cool effects. You can go even more granular if you rapidly trigger the sample using notes on the timeline.

This idea was inspired by time-stretched loops hack for Elektron Digitakt:

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  • OMG :D so good! thanks for sharing.

  • This is genius, i wish i thought of this or found out sooner

  • NAH I JUST TRIED THIS, THIS IS LIFE-CHANGING !!

  • can someone help me with this my brain is too small to understand

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  • just tried this out today. you're a godsend, Kepz

    • glad it's being put to use

  • The fact that so many of us never knew

  • I been wanting to learn how to do this in audiotool for as long as I remember! thank you for this!

  • Do you have digitakt?

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  • oh shit this genius

  • This is sick

  • Such a simple and brilliant technique. Might play around with this because there are several things I'd like to try.

    - Changing the Machiniste scale to trigger the note even faster

    - Placing the notes according to the drum rhythm so that the drum hits don't get split up (e.g. a 1/8 note snare doesn't get split by 1/16 repeating notes)

    - Using velocity to control sample start in order to jump around the loop

    • yeah many opportunities to mangle the sample while keeping it in time!

    • 2nd idea will give cleanest results for drum loops for sure! Actually did that on the Digitakt

    • can get some reversed parts in there by setting the end to 0

  • word! if you want less clean and more messy you can also make cool granular-ish effects by humanizing the midi (modify duration only & velocity) and then mapping velocity to start mod % or pitch or whatnot. fun stuff gonna mess around more :)

    • ooh that's a cool idea

  • <3 <3

  • excellent idea, thx for sharing!