[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made tool for slicing up samples to Ablet...
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       Show HN: I made tool for slicing up samples to Ableton Move presets
        
       I recently got Ableton Move and was disappointed by how difficult
       it was to convert samples into Move-compatible drum racks, so I
       made a simple CLI tool for that.  I hope others find it useful, and
       at some point, Ableton sees the need and provides us with a built-
       in solution.
        
       Author : alex_x
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2024-10-19 12:10 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | cyberpunk wrote:
       | How are you finding the move? I was a bit curious about it but I
       | still have so much to learn on my push that I can admit that I
       | don't need another toy ;)
        
         | alex_x wrote:
         | I love it, because I have a soft spot for small portable boxes.
         | it's fun and immediate. The downside is that it is an idea
         | sketchpad, not a performance box
        
         | bangaroo wrote:
         | i have one as well and i find it immediately inspiring and
         | playful but it's definitely something that gets ideas to 50%
         | and then you need to bring them to the DAW... which I think is
         | the intent.
        
       | _def wrote:
       | nice! you should share it on the ableton discord. btw parts of
       | the Move team will have a Q&A there later today
        
         | alex_x wrote:
         | Do you have a link to the official one?
        
           | davea37 wrote:
           | https://discord.gg/ableton
        
             | alex_x wrote:
             | mentioned it there, thanks for the idea! I didn't know
             | Ableton has a discord channel
        
       | alex_x wrote:
       | Hi all, author here - to tell you a secret, I just wanted to
       | resample samples from Output Arcade (not an ad!) to use them on
       | Move. I make Future Garage music and vocal chops are essential
        
       | OskarS wrote:
       | You might want to check out Life by XLN Audio, which does some of
       | what you want here as well:
       | https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/life
       | 
       | (disclaimer: I work for XLN Audio)
        
         | yvan wrote:
         | I just wanted to thank you for Life, it's incredibly fun to
         | play with it. I love the mobile app to record and then transfer
         | it on desktop to experiment and find fund loops.
        
           | OskarS wrote:
           | We were very happy to get that working as well as it did, the
           | first time we've ever made an app (we're VERY much audio
           | plugin people, not app developers). Worked really nicely in
           | the end!
        
         | alex_x wrote:
         | I use life and love it! It can't make me a ready-to-use Ableton
         | preset tho :(
        
           | OskarS wrote:
           | Yeah, fair, but the slots in Life are mapped to MIDI, so you
           | can trigger them that way if you want, you don't have to use
           | the built-in sequencer.
        
       | millzlane wrote:
       | Just wanted to say, your Linux guide was funny. Kudos to your
       | project.
        
       | dijksterhuis wrote:
       | noice. i'm working on a similar cli tool for the octatrack.
       | 
       | everyone has done GUI apps for octatrack sample chains so far and
       | GUIs are a right pain when you'e got like 50+ chains to make in a
       | batch.
        
         | alex_x wrote:
         | lmk if I can contribute, had this idea for ages too
        
           | dijksterhuis wrote:
           | shoot me an email i the address in the profile. id be happy
           | to chat to you about it.
        
         | diggan wrote:
         | > noice. i'm working on a similar cli tool for the octatrack.
         | 
         | Is this public yet or dare I ask you to invite me to the
         | repository anyways?
         | 
         | There was a software for Octatrack that stopped being for sale
         | while the author finished up their 2.0 version, but afaik, it
         | still hasn't released (so I've been unable to get it), would be
         | wonderful with an alternative for prepping Octatrack projects.
        
           | dijksterhuis wrote:
           | shoot me an email on the address in my profile with something
           | about the octatrack in the subject.
           | 
           | deffo not in a releasable state, started very much as a
           | personal learning project, and not (yet) attempting to be a
           | full OctaEdit replacement.
        
       | UbikAI wrote:
       | this is fire could see this being amazing for the simpler
        
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