dadda123/livecut-enhanced

LiveCut Enhanced is a modernized rebuild of Livecut, a beat slicing audio effect originally created in 2004. A beat slicer takes incoming audio and chops it into rhythmic pieces in real time, synced to the tempo of whatever music software it is plugged into. This version updates the old plugin to run as a proper 64 bit application on Windows, with a completely new user interface built using a modern audio framework called JUCE. The project's main improvement is fixing a specific bug in the original effect. The original Livecut only started a new rhythmic pattern when playback reached the start of a musical bar. This meant that if you looped a short section of audio that never lined up with a bar start, the plugin could get stuck and go silent until you manually stopped and restarted it. LiveCut Enhanced detects when the playback position suddenly jumps back at the end of a loop and uses that moment to restart the rhythmic pattern immediately, regardless of where the bar lines fall. It comes in two forms: a VST3 plugin that loads inside music production software, and a standalone application for testing on its own. The interface includes a built in help mode where clicking a question mark icon lets you hover over any control to see what it does. Under the hood it offers three different cutting styles, ranging from classic rhythmic slicing to more experimental, accelerating patterns. This project is built with C++ and the JUCE 8 framework, and it is aimed at musicians and audio producers using Windows who want a reliable, up to date version of this classic effect. It is licensed under GPL version 2 or later, matching the license of the original project it builds on.