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:
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
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 :)