i'll give (You) a step-by-step. pay close attention.
SAMPLING PHASE:
- render each sample at the max quality setting (512-point sinc). make sure the vowels you're sampling have little-to-no background noise or music.
- sample more than just the requisite five vowels. preferably around 12 or so samples in total.
- use newtone to tune them all individually by pressing ctrl+a and clicking the nearest C on the piano roll.
- click the "file" icon and select "save sample as..." to... well... save the tuned samples. delete samples that don't tune well.
- stretch remaining ones to desired length using melodyne. emihead shows you how to do this in their tutorial on youtube.
LAYOUT PHASE:
- lay out all your stretched samples on the playlist in fl studio, copying and pasting as necessary to reach at least 36 notes, or 3 octaves.
- use the project tempo to make sure each sample has adequate spacing between them.
- render the whole thing into one audio file.
NEWTONE PHASE:
- open the rendered audio file in newtone.
- zoom as far as you can into the first note. newtone always slices a really small portion of the first note. switch to "cut mode" (click the icon that looks like a razor blade), ctrl + drag click to select both the main note and the small bit that was sliced, then shift + click the note to glue them together.
- use this method to glue together any other notes that may have been weirdly sliced by newtone.
- switch off cut mode and lay your samples out in chromatic fasion.
- save your tuned scale.
(there's one more phase but i had to cut it off because it exceeds the character limit so wait a bit for the rest.)
SLICEX PHASE:
- open the tuned scale in slicex.
- click the "tools" icon and select "trim all noise & slice up".
- go through each slice region and make sure image-line's retarded slicing algorithm didn't over- or under-slice anything. if it over-sliced, right click the useless regions and select "delete". if it under-sliced, drag click near the area where the region should be to select it. then, click the "regions" icon and select "add marker...".
- play each region one-by-one to make sure the slices are adequate. if they aren't, zoom in and manually adjust the problematic slice markers.
- once all the regions are perfect, click these "tools" options in order:
declick in all regions
declick out all regions
perfect all regions
normalize all regions
lossy normalize - use the "amp..." option to lower the overall volume of the scale so it's not clipping.
- save your sliced scale.