Reverse Sample

Good to know

Reverse belongs to the track’s sample, not to one clip. Every clip on the track plays backwards, so a sound in both directions needs two tracks.

Each clip plays the same part of the sample as before, from the other end. Clips stay where they are in the song.

Picking another sample with ⌥S keeps Reverse on. The new sound plays backwards too. The list still previews it forwards.

The original file is never changed. Gridshift plays a reversed copy and saves it with the project.

Settings carry over: Warp, pitch, Normalize and Trim Silence apply to the reversed sound. Slice markers you placed by hand are mirrored.

What else should I know?

Reverse works on sample tracks only, not on a track playing the built-in sampler.
A sample with stems is reversed as you hear it, muted stems left out, and loses its stem lanes. Turning Reverse off brings back that mix, not the lanes.
Detected slice markers are found again on the reversed sound, so slices start on the reversed attacks.
Per-slice levels reset, as when you pick another sample.

Next: Reverse Reverb builds a swell that rises into a sound.

Reverse a sample