filip! you are awesome! thanks for answering questions.
As filip already answered, that's the easiest way (and only way that I know of). The whole slicing thing is an algorithm built in to the esx. There are various software tools that do some type of slicing of samples, but I've never reverse engineered the ESX algorithm (or tried).
The only way I know of is to do what zbr already mentioned- just do it on the hardware.