If you specified the number of steps as 16 or higher in “4” (above), you can use the [ ][ ] keys to change the region of slice steps that is displayed. (The currently displayed region is shown by the lower line of LEDs.).

6.You can increase or decrease the number of slices into which the sound is divided by holding down SHIFT and pressing a step key. This lets you manually specify a division that was not automatically detected, or delete an unwanted division.

Depending on how the sound is divided, a small amount of time may be required for the division to change when you adjust the sensitivity (threshold).

Depending on the volume or type of the sample, adjusting the sensitivity (threshold) may not change the way in which the sound is divided. If you set the Beat to 12 or 24, steps 13–16 are not used.

7.When you have finished making adjustments, press the slice sample part key to complete the Slice operation. (The key will go dark.)

8.Press the WRITE/RENAME key to save the sample.If you decide to cancel mid-way through the procedure, press theSTOP/CANCEL key.The sliced sample will have a “ ” following its sample number.If you were not successful in creating a slice sample

When you execute Time Slice to create a slice sample, the sample may not always be sliced as you intended. In this case, you can try the following two techniques.

Try changing the slice step setting (step 3, above)

The slice step tells the ESX-1 “how many steps the entire slice sample should occupy,” and is automatically determined during the Slice process based on the length of the sample, the attacks, and the tempo. If the detected result is obviously different than your intentions, use the dial to change the setting. For example, suppose you have a sample like the one shown below: “>_>_>>>>” (where “>” is a note, and “_” is silence).

This sample contains six attacks, but judging from the overall length, it should occupy eight steps, so an automatically-detected result of “8” would be correct. If the ESX-1 displays a different value, such as “7” or “9,” turn the dial to specify the correct number of steps.

7 step

9step

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