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Sample slicer, online and free.
Cut one long audio file into clean, separate slices on the waveform — then download them all, or send them to sixteen pads and play them. Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
How it works
How to slice an audio file
Load the long file
A recorded jam, a bounce, a downloaded loop pack, a take that ran twenty minutes. It decodes locally — no upload, so length costs you nothing but RAM.
Place the slice points
One marker per slice. Zoom in on the waveform and put each one just before the transient so the slice starts on the hit, not after it.
Take the slices out
Download every slice as its own file, or send the first sixteen straight to the pads of the browser sampler and play them.
What it's for
When you need slices, not edits
Splitting a long recording
One take with twelve usable ideas in it becomes twelve files you can actually find later, named and separate, without opening an editor.
Building a kit from a break
Slice a drum break at every hit and you have a kick, a snare, hats and ghost notes as separate one-shots — a drum kit made from a record instead of a pack.
Cutting a loop pack apart
Long multi-loop files are a pain to use as they ship. Slice at the loop boundaries once and the parts are usable in any DAW from then on.
Trimming before you sample
Cut the four seconds you actually want out of a four-minute track before it ever reaches a pad. Less to scroll through, less to load.
Slices → pads
Hear the slices before you commit to them
A folder of exported slices tells you nothing about whether the cuts are in the right place. Press Load chops in TAIL and the first sixteen go onto the pads of the browser sampler in order, so you can play them immediately and hear which ones start late or run into the next hit.
From there it is a whole instrument — 16 pads, 8 banks, a step sequencer — and the kit loads into KITE as a plugin when the sketch is worth finishing properly.
More TAIL tools
Everything else that runs in the same tab
Sample chopper
The same tool, framed around flipping a break into something new.
Online sampler
Where the slices land: 16 pads, 8 banks, step sequencer, free.
How to chop samples
Where to cut, how to kill clicks, and how the same job is done in a DAW.
Common questions about slicing samples
They are the same operation with different intent. Slicing is about getting clean, separate files out of one long recording. Chopping is about rearranging those pieces into something musical. This page and the sample chopper run the same tool — pick whichever framing matches what you're doing.
Put the slice point just before the transient rather than exactly on it, and zoom in far enough to see the waveform cross zero. A slice that begins mid-cycle is what produces the click you hear on playback.
As many as you place markers for; every slice is downloadable. The handoff to the sampler takes the first sixteen, because that is one bank of pads — the rest stay here to download.
No. The file is decoded and sliced locally in your browser with Web Audio. Nothing leaves the tab, which is also why there is no file-size cap imposed by an upload limit.
Yes — free with no signup to play, no watermark and no cap on exports. Saving a project to come back to later is what the free account is for.