Pitch Bend Effect

Ok. I know that there is no way to pitch bend a sample internally on the 2000 (like realtime). But does anyone know of any method to immitate a pitch bend effect? I know a few years ago on this forum there were some tutorials that have now been removed and one of them was how to do a turntable stop. I'm thinking I can apply some of the same principles to do a pitch bend effect (for basses). Anyone still have that tutorial?

There is a method where you slice a sample (the more you slice, the better it sounds, but more work), and apply variations to each slice. So you could try slicing up the sample and then altering the pitch more and more on each one. However, this will not emulate a turntable stop. First, a turntable stop is not linear, so it would sound more like a powerdown. Plus, the tail end of a turntable stop is going so slow that the pitch change on the MPC would not be able to go that low. It also will not sound naturally smooth since you are doing slices. So you could get a pitch bend effect using this method, but it does take work. For turntable stop, you'll find much better results with software (or hardware like a modern CD turntable).

McSmooth wrote:There is a method where you slice a sample (the more you slice, the better it sounds, but more work), and apply variations to each slice. So you could try slicing up the sample and then altering the pitch more and more on each one. However, this will not emulate a turntable stop. First, a turntable stop is not linear, so it would sound more like a powerdown. Plus, the tail end of a turntable stop is going so slow that the pitch change on the MPC would not be able to go that low. It also will not sound naturally smooth since you are doing slices. So you could get a pitch bend effect using this method, but it does take work. For turntable stop, you'll find much better results with software (or hardware like a modern CD turntable).

Thanks a lot. I kinds figured I could do something like that but like you said it will take a lot of work. I will try it though.

Thanks again *dapz*