kick drum timing issue

JVC wrote:All of my one-shot drum samples (like TR808 samples, Linndrum samples, etc.) has tiny bit of silence, which Lampdog and other veteran MPC users would refer as "air."

and damn i despise this way of working

i can always add air later, but having to remove it or account for it on every sample drives me up the wall.

to each their own

tapedeck wrote:

JVC wrote:All of my one-shot drum samples (like TR808 samples, Linndrum samples, etc.) has tiny bit of silence, which Lampdog and other veteran MPC users would refer as "air."

and damn i despise this way of working

i can always add air later, but having to remove it or account for it on every sample drives me up the wall.

to each their own

Actually, if OP started with a kick sample with air, then all OP had to do would've been move the starting point of the kick sample, not having to adjust other samples.

JVC wrote:Actually, if OP started with a kick sample with air, then all OP had to do would've been move the starting point of the kick sample, not having to adjust other samples.

exactly...but who knows what actually happened? (still waiting on some closure)

and this is one reason why i dont f with that method
no hate for those that do