Question regarding the Fruity Loops slicer

as some of you mentioned using Fruity Loops as a slicer i did also had a try as it seems to complicated to do it with recycle i have a question regarding the slicing technique in FL:

how do i select a later part of the material i am sliceing? like for ex. i have a 3 minute wav and i want to slice the last 30 sec. instead of the first minute or whatever is default - how can i manage this without cutting the wave manually in audition before

because FL just always takes what comes in the first 1 minute or so by default

2. question: can i alter the amount of samples sliced? i case i want more than 124 pieces

what is so wrong with chopping it beforehand ?

easiest way to do this on windows (for me) is to use wavosaur, a nice free wav editor, to cut out the pieces you want. then create markers (put cursor where you want the cut to go, then press the blue M to create a mark). save the wav file when you're done. fruity slicer can 'see' the markers you made and cut on those marks. you can get real close in wavosaur to cut directly on zero crossings and all that. oh yeah, it doesn't matter what order the markers are in... so if you forget one, don't think you have to move them all over.. just create the new one where you want (ex. number 33 can come in between 5 and 6 and it won't affect the order of things... well you would have realized this anyway)

my intention is to direktly put my mp3 collection into FL slicer without making waves from it and then just selecting for example ok in minute 2 there is a nice beat lets take it or in minute 5 there is a nice synth lets take this without creating wavs from it filling my harddrive endlessly and also takeing endless time to convert

well then your original question

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like for ex. i have a 3 minute wav and i want to slice the last 30 sec. i

but you're lucky because wavosaur:

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Loads wav, mp3, aif,aiff, raw binary, au/snd, ADPCM Dialogic vox, Akai S1000 sample, Amiga 8svx & 16svx

Support for multichannel wav, 8 bits, 16 bits, 24 bits, 32 bits PCM, 32 bits float, @ any samplerate.

Import any binary files, export multiple files from markers. Export MP3 (support for lame encoder).

Although i'm not sure fruity slicer can read the markers in an mp3 file... i will try and report back.

lazy

also would that not be a completely unnecessary drain on your cpu?

it's kind of like saying "i only want to play up to the 3rd fret on my guitar so is there away i can move those frets nearer the body so i dont have to hold my arm up to reach - maybe saw the rest of the neck off and glue it to the body at thge 3rd fret ok so its nothing like saying that but well....you know

no markers carry over in the mp3 export. wavs are good, get used to them. build a sample library from things you cut out of mp3 tracks if you want.