This free Ableton Extension slices up chunks of audio for Move, Live

MID continues to make cool stuff for Ableton Live, with a special emphasis on Ableton Move. Ever wished you could quickly chop up a track or other longer material into bar-aligned loops — especially for easy triggering on Move? Move Loop Slicer does just that, and it’s free now.

Fauve, an effects instrument that weaves sounds from fragments: review

K-Devices’ Fauve is an idiosyncratic, exquisite audio effect that the developers describe as “fractured memory” — a glitchy, audio-slicing, granular-adjacent sonic fragmentation tool. There’s nothing quite like this “flawed audio reconstructor.” Let’s break down how it works, especially with the effect on sale now.

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2025

Live round-up: 12.2 is out, vids, a free Grain Slicer Rack, tuner, and more

Ableton Live 12.2 went from beta to public yesterday. And there’s more for all Live users – Iftah has an accessible tuner device called Pitch Pipe and Side Brain has an awesome free instrument rack for performing granular tricks, among other new add-ons. You don’t have time to wade through hours of videos; let’s put everything in one place and get bouncing tracks/spectral resonating/granulating.

Peter Kirn - June 12, 2025

Sampleslicer MKIII is an all-new version of realtime Eurorack sampler-slicer

Peter Kirn - February 23, 2024

Audio Damage Replicant plug-in rebuilt in v3, looks great, does way more than stutter

Peter Kirn - March 15, 2023

BOSS SL-2 is the slicer in a compact pedal with loads of powers, MIDI, and stereo in & out

Peter Kirn - November 1, 2022

These Tools Plus Live 9.2 Could Change How You DJ and Play Live

Peter Kirn - July 2, 2015

Not Just Stuttering: Fraction Plug-in Slices Sound Live on Mac

Peter Kirn - May 13, 2015