most sufficient hardware to chop samples on?

peeping tom wrote:cats and autochop


i hit the autochop button EVERYTIME im in that **** chop shop window. you know why? Cos its the quickest way to chop a sample.

Hit autochop, tell it how many chops you want, adjust chops to suit your ears.


Really, the autochop just puts a number of regions in the sample, AKAI never said it was gospel to use it and not adjust, but it seriously is the quickest way to start chopping.


****, even if a sample has 4 parts i want all diff lengths, i will autochop, adjust start and end of each chop so i got the 4 i want.

Its not rocket science!


And if it takes you longer than 5 minutes to chop on ANY equipment, dont make beats!

hahaha


just realised i misinformed you all.

i got home went to chop a sample and i hit "CHOP" and adjust.

i notice there is a AUTO button in there. ha. never used it though.



its easier to just use CHOP is what i meant to say. Doh.

ah yeah, i use that feature all ti time too. i think its called slice on jjos 2xl.

i would have to agree that its one of hte best ways to chop on the mpc.

I find that The MV8000/8800 gets the job done just fine in that regard.. It works really good if im being lazy but coming from the MPC 2000 (thats where it was all manual) I still enjoy doing it the old fashion way...Kind of reminds me when I had a S 10 back in the day man you really had to know your math... Also a machine that gets no play and is really dope is the Korg SX1 this thing will slice your beats up real nice and even adds accents to it in most cases..So for the price ( and i got mines for much less) they aint bad. I find myself using it a lot and it's fun as well..

Mr.Chris wrote:I find that The MV8000/8800 gets the job done just fine in that regard.. It works really good if im being lazy but coming from the MPC 2000 (thats where it was all manual) I still enjoy doing it the old fashion way...Kind of reminds me when I had a S 10 back in the day man you really had to know your math... Also a machine that gets no play and is really dope is the Korg SX1 this thing will slice your beats up real nice and even adds accents to it in most cases..So for the price ( and i got mines for much less) they aint bad. I find myself using it a lot and it's fun as well..

+1 on the KORG ESX-1. really does a good job chopping especially breaks. the only thing is it does't slice up stereo files. Most of the work on a ESX is with mono samples

I use the MPC 2000 to chop 99% of the times, but the zoom sampletrak is really nice for chopping too, you just have to push a button at the right moment and then just adjust it if you want. Really cheap and good sound, i recommend it!

Except for the the MV I have used many tools to chop samples.
Mpc500, 2000xl, 2500, 1000, S900/950 and S3000, Recycle, Ableton...

To me the most efficient way is the chop function in the mpc1000/ 2500 using the free JJOS and up. Just hit that 'Chop' button (yeah, **** autochop), select the number of slices you want, adjust start and end points and even create an extra slice by dividing one of the zones and BAM! Chopped up and spread out over the pads ready to bang. Hit the Global mode for some quick adjusting and you're ready to lay down your beat. Couldn't be more simple IMO.