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A footsteps recording loaded into the Foley Sampler
Splitting Sound Eects
It’s common to use pre-recorded library sound effects that consist of a series of recorded
footsteps, cloth rustles, punches, or other “foleyed” sound recordings, in order to play variations
of a specific kind of repetitive sound effect in sync to action that’s happening on screen. The
Foley Sampler lets you do this easily.
1 After you’ve loaded a sound effect, click the Foley Sampler window’s Option menu
and choose Split Sample to automatically split the current sample into slices based
on an analysis of its noise floor, and assign each slice to a set of keys or pads on your
selected MIDI device. Continuing with the previous example, each footstep has been
split and assigned to a different key.
2 To adjust the timing of each slice of the sound effect that’s been split apart, you can
click on the assignment text above the keyboard at the bottom of the window to see
that slice in the Sample view.
3 You can adjust the Range Start and Range End parameters to encompass as much or
as little of that slice as you want to play back.
4 If you want a sample to loop if a note is held down, you can enable the Loop button,
and then adjust the Loop Start and Loop End parameters to choose how much of each
slice will loop.
5 To delete slices that aren’t useful, you can select a slice you don’t like and press Shift-
Delete to clear that slice from the virtual keyboard.
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