VirtualCut was created for musicians basing their work on samples, but lacking access to professional software working exclusively under commercial operating systems. VirtualCut is designed in particular for users of the GNU/Linux system and other Unix-like systems.
To build VirtualCut, you need to install Scala enviroment first. You will find it on official Scala webpage. You will also need SBT (Simple Build Tool). Then download VirtualCut from Github:
git clone git@github.com:ciembor/VirtualCut
Go to the created directory:
cd VirtualCut
Build VirtualCut using SBT:
sbt compile
If everything went right, run VirtualCut:
sbt run
After an audio file has been loaded, the waveform is displayed. We can now set the length of the sample that we wish to cut. The length is specified on the basis of the tempo, metre and note. Once these parameters have been set, a part of the waveform will be highlighted. This highlight can be moved in order to select the desired fragment. When you decide to cut it, click ‘save sample’ to save it to a new file. Such samples can be opened in any sound editor.