Splice

18 mentions in 13 episodes.

100 gecs

21:54 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“there's individual samples that we got off of Splice, or wherever, various places”

Splice one-shots are part of the layered drum palette alongside live kit and stock kits.

Arlo Parks

33:06 · Splice · named · medium confidence

“I think they've now been folded into Splice, and I don't know how to use it anymore”

Baird mentions LABS being absorbed into Splice while discussing his preference for sample-based instruments.

Barry Cant Swim

1:24:29 · Splice Sounds · named · medium confidence

“You can just find, I don't know, any Splice sample or whatever, get it in that key, and mess around with a granulator”

O'Flynn suggests grabbing any Splice sample in the track's key as source material for granular textures.

Bring Me The Horizon

54:41 · Splice Sounds · named · medium confidence

“go on Splice and find some stuff”

Oli sources sounds and samples from Splice when working on his own ideas.

Fall Out Boy

1:01:14 · Splice Sounds · named · medium confidence

“That demo loop was some loop, some like Splice loop or something that I had, that I was just looking for.”

The intro loop of Heaven, Iowa started life as a stock Splice loop in Patrick's demo before being recreated from scratch.

Hayley Williams

23:07 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“I'll use Splice a lot, but I treat it like crate digging now. My favourite thing to type in Splice is just weird or experimental.”

Splice is described as his modern crate-digging tool, searching 'weird' and 'experimental' to find raw material for textures.

43:12 · Astra · named · high confidence

“I think I started with this sound in Astra. It's just like a user-generated sound.”

The arpeggiated flute-like keyboard hook in Love Me Different came from a user preset in Splice's Astra.

44:12 · Splice Sounds · named · medium confidence

“Whoever made that stock sample thing on Splice, it wasn't tuned correctly, so anyways we fixed it later.”

A Splice sound turned out to be 20 cents out of tune, spotted by Brian Robert Jones and corrected later.

1:56:37 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“I use Splice a lot to pull in random samples, and I'll stretch, pitch stuff up in the box.”

Splice sample library remains central to his in-the-box sound collecting and manipulation.

Holly Humberstone

44:58 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“And is that one you recorded yourself? From Splice. I've got no shame in that.”

The conga loop that started 'Cruel World' was a time-stretched Splice sample.

Imogen Heap

12:37 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“at the time I was chatting with Splice... But I didn't know how to use Splice because I'd never used it. So the first thing I pulled up was this clicky sound”

Her first ever use of Splice produced the 'pepper grinder' clicky drum loop that the entire What Have You Done to Me arrangement was built around.

25:21 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“I think that was another Splice sound that came quite early on. I specifically liked how it came out of a high voice”

A second Splice sample became a key transitional element she never wanted to lose from the arrangement.

Joy Anon

1:20:45 · Splice Sounds · named · medium confidence

“so it doesn't feel like it's just like, oh, this is just like a Splice loop or whatever”

Splice loops are referenced as the generic-sounding result they avoid by hand-placing their drums.

Lorde

1:21:46 · Splice Sounds · named · medium confidence

“some of these are some of the first sounds I ever downloaded... maybe something from Splice”

Jimmy's personal drum library mixes very old downloads with Splice samples.

Myles Smith

31:22 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“You definitely must've ripped it off Splice. Yo, I for sure got it off Splice.”

The orchestral transition swoosh and the go-to 'Dip Bass' one-shot both come from Splice samples.

RDS

23:27 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“I think it's a Splice, some Splice thing that got chopped up”

The 'break me down' chorus vocal chop originated from a chopped-up Splice sample carried over from an unreleased track.

1:02:35 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“We often are going through Splice, or even just looking through older dance tracks and looking for inspiration”

Splice is part of their routine for finding sample inspiration for post-chorus and drop sections.

Rudimental

26:33 · Splice Sounds · named · high confidence

“I use a bit of Splice, use a bit of Loopmasters. They're really handy tools if you want to search a certain style”

Splice is used as a loop/sample source when hunting for a specific style, e.g. the jungle loop in 'Thank You'.