Hello, everyone! I wanted to share an updated tutorial for using the record tool. Whether you’re rapping, singing, or telling a story, the record tool is the one of the best ways to get those sounds into your profile so you can share them easily with friends. Here is how:

1. Make sure you are logged in.

2. Go to your home page. Look next to your user photo for a menu option that says Record.

Clicking this will take you to the uploading and recording page. You can also access that page easily at any time by clicking the little microphone that appears just below the navigation bar on most pages. It looks like this:

3. Look towards the bottom of the page for the actual tool, and click it:

4. A window will pop up for you to allow Flash to access your microphone. You should select Allow.

5. Once you’ve done that, the record window will pop open. Just click the red button and start recording your sound!

6. When you’ve finished recording, just press stop, and the window will change a little. From here, you can listen to your recording, re-record, adjust your settings or save it. If you like your sound, just hit ‘Save This Recording,’ and you will be taken to the normal upload page, where you can name your sound, tag it and select license and privacy levels.

That’s it! As lots of Splicers already know, recording is a lot of fun. I can’t wait to hear what you’ve got to say!

We’ve all been there - you’re just getting into the groove of your new song and suddenly get called away, leaving you an unfinished number that you’re not sure what to do with. Did you know that in Splice you can save your work privately? This lets you go back later on to get it ready to share with others. There are a couple of ways you can do this:

Check this box to make your song PUBLIC.
If you don’t check the box, your song will remain as a private draft.

Or, you can set a default choice for your account. To find this box, go to
Home > Account Settings and scroll down to the bottom.

Did you know that you can use Splice Studio to change not only the speed of your entire song, but also of individual clips? Here’s a little tutorial to help you master all the options you have now for speeds.

1. Changing your song’s BPM

The first thing you need to know is how to change the BPM of a song. BPM stands for Beats Per Minute; the higher this number is, the faster your song will go. If you click and drag up or down on the BPM in Splice Studio, your entire song will speed up or slow down accordingly.

2. Changing the speed of your sample.

The next great thing to know is that you can change the size of a single clip to make it faster or slower. This can be useful for making clips match speed. For instance, maybe you have some great drums that you want to speed up to match a vocal line you have. To change the size of your clip (and therefore, the speed) just click your sample so that you see the little white square at the end. Grab this square and drag left or right to change your sample’s speed.

3. Choose your sync.

When you change the speed of your clip, you have a couple of choices for how to sync it to the rest of your song. By default, the sound will sync via time stretching. What this means is that the clip will go faster or slower but the pitch will stay the same. For example - if this were a vocal sample, it would sound like you were simply speaking faster.

The other option is to sync by matching the pitch. Choosing this option will allow the pitch to change when you change the sample speed. For example - again, if this were a vocal sample, you could use this option to make someone sound like a chipmunk, or (if slowed) like a monster. This is just silly with voice but with something like a synthesizer, you can use this to get the melody in a different key, which can actually be useful. Syncing by pitch uses far less resources from your computer, also, which can help reduce skipping.

You may also choose not to sync the clip at all, and it will remain as it was uploaded.

To get to these different options, just double click the sample to pull up the sample editor. You will see the options on the left:

A little tip: This page is also where you can CUT a sample, too. That’s how people pull just one word out of a sampled sentence, for instance.

I hope that helps clear a few things up for you. Just think - now you can break your song down in the middle and go to half-time, and then speed back up again, all using the exact same samples. How fun is that?

Hey everyone, Bram here! I’m taking over this blog for today’s tech post

We’ve been getting a lot of comments about the note editing in the sequencer, and well, once we thought about it, shift-clicking for adding notes wasn’t the best idea in the world. So, I just got dirty with the flash code and changed the way it works. To add and edit notes it now works like this:

• To add a note, just click. Drag to give it a length or just click and release to make one of those really short ones.
• To select a note, click on it.
• Select more than one note (selection rectangle) by holding down shift, click in an empty space and drag.
• Extend a selection by holding down shift and click on a non-selected note. You can do the inverse as well: remove notes from the selection by shift-clicking a selected note
• Change the length of a note (or notes!) by selecting the note, then click + drag the small rectangle at it’s tail
• Remove notes by selecting them (as above) and hitting delete or backspace.

That’s all for today! Cheerio!

Hey everyone! Thanks for waiting so patiently while we get the new site up. We are currently converting all of your sounds and songs into the new Splice format. It takes a little while to change over so much information, so sit tight and we will be back as soon as possible.

I know some of you are hanging around without much to do while we have some downtime here, so I have a little present for you: A short tutorial for the new sequencer. This way, you can study hard and be ready to go when we are.

Don’t worry - the quiz results will be graded on a curve.

Ok, kiddies. My wonderfu friend talk boxfor super cheap. Now, I have a sneaking suspicion that most of you are too young to remember good funk and therefore have no idea what I am talking about, therefore, exhibit A:

(Really, the best and rockingest video of Stevie on the talk box is HERE HERE HERE, but it’s got the embedding disabled. Don’t miss it, though. It’s so awesome. Really. I wouldn’t lie to you.)

So, ready to make one of your own? It’s so simple that anyone can do it, really. Even people like me, who have no skill when it comes to objects with wires. So, I challenge you to make your own talk box. I have a set of old speakers around here, somewhere, and I know I have some duct tape. That’s pretty much almost all you need:

So you’ve been browsing around splicemusic.com for a while now, and you’ve been mixing cool loops into songs. You want to try your hand at making your OWN loops now, but everyone you talk to says you need roughly two zillion dollars worth of equipment. Never fear!
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With a beatbox competition coming right up*, it seems to be a good time to go over the recording feature here at Splice. I’ve put together a very basic tutorial here to get you going. All you need is some kind of microphone!

1. From the music menu, select Music -> Record Sounds.

That’s it! After you hit save, you can go back and put in the name of your sound, or you can make more. If you have your own tricks you use to record, or if you have questions about how to make something work, come try asking over in the forum and someone will help you out. Have fun!

*OMG did I say that OUT LOUD? Shhhhhh.

Do you have mad ninja Splice skills? October does, and he’s written up a great guide for you to hone your own skills in Splice-Fu! Thanks!

You asked for it and we’ve got it! We’re happy to present the first Splice Tutorial! There will be more in the future, so stay tuned. If you’d like to help show this off to other people around the world, be sure to pop over to YouTube and rate it for us!