most sufficient hardware to chop samples on?

is there a machine other than the MPC's auto chop feature, that is really good at chopping samples. the sp series have the "mark" feature, which i've used and cannot get the hang of for the life of me.

on my soundforge 10 software, i can set up chop points on a sample of any size in about 10-15 seconds, by just highlighting the sample, halving it, and then "mark" my points, but thats the easy part. i still have to export each individual chop to .wav, copy to cf card, then load them up. so that obviously isnt the fastest way...

is the mpc auto chop the only sufficient way to get chops fast?

thanks

Recycle can export into .AKPs but only at 16-bit.

Autochop? I've never used that feature...not saying there is anything wrong with using it tho. I've tried software and external hardware, but no matter how good it is, the extra step of transferring samples is too much for me. I'm lazy. I like everything to be contained in one unit. Why use anything else when the MPC can already do what your looking for? I have this debate all the time with friends...they never understand my reasoning, so I guess I understand if you don't either.

I really enjoy chopping on Recycle, mostly for quick drum break chops. Been using this for drum programs, you can get through a bunch quickly. http://www.rex2mpc.co.uk/

if you get the full version of soundforge, you dont have to highlight every chop and save it as a new file. you can export everything at once.

you probably have soundforge audio studio, i had that for along time.

but i agree, nothing matches soundforge for chopping.

recycle is alright, its a little too mouse based for me, but its what i use now, in combination with my mpc with jjos2xl.

if your running the stock OS on a 2500 or 1k, you doing yourself a huge disservice in the chopping department.

you should get jjos.

lately ive been finding that chopping in a few bigger sections of 4 or 8 bars, then uploading to the mpc to chop those smaller has been working best for me.

btw check your PM's

Forget Auto Chop, sounds like you got a 1000 or 2500, have you looked into JJOS? But forget that too, why don't you get familar with the Copy Sample feature and copy to all the pads and just adjust the start and end points of each pad.

Or get an MV.

acronym wrote:Autochop is for losers.

Losers breed weakness.

Weakness is death.

Death is void.

Void is emptiness.

Emptiness is sadness.

What he said lol

The best sampler I used to date for chopping samples that I personally like the most is the Akai S 3x series i.e. S-3200XL, 2800, 3000 etc

It's super quick, easy and well great... Couldn't live without it

I got a MPC-2000XL which I don't like to sample or chop on and use my 3200XL for that, just also picked up a S-2800 which was my first sampler for 25 quid..

Ill-Green wrote:Forget Auto Chop, sounds like you got a 1000 or 2500, have you looked into JJOS? But forget that too, why don't you get familar with the Copy Sample feature and copy to all the pads and just adjust the start and end points of each pad.

Or get an MV.

man on the MPC 500, i would get a calcutor and pen/pad and find out how long my samples was. then divide by 12 and set up a new start point after every extraction and chop the sample that way, then i would further adjust each chop once on it's own pad.

i almost got my hands a 1000, until i almost got scammed last year on ebay, got my money back and decided to just stick with my 500 and sp303.

also, i've never used the usb function on the Mpc 500, but i know that you can hook these MPC's up to the PC and drag and drop files, chop your samples in sound forge and drag-n-drop them that way? know sure how long that would take though, probably a lot faster than my calculator + notepad lol

the usb is the shit! use it especially if you have soundforge.

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.


Shit, 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!

people will be screaming, i can hear ya'll already.

IF the start and endpoint is adjustable for every slice there is nothing wrong with autochop IMO. But the simple "chop a sample into 8 or 16 pieces with equal length and not adjustable afterward" is useless IMO

peace

holy shit, im gonna go check if you can adjust autochop slices in jjos2xl. thats a real eye opener.

but i agree, if it cant, its pretty useless...

vinyl_junkie_1620 wrote:...
The best sampler I used to date for chopping samples that I personally like the most is the Akai S 3x series i.e. S-3200XL, 2800, 3000 etc

It's super quick, easy and well great... Couldn't live without it

I got a MPC-2000XL which I don't like to sample or chop on and use my 3200XL for that, just also picked up a S-2800 which was my first sampler for 25 quid..

Vinyl Junkie, I didn't know S3000 series samplers are great for chopping samples. I want to know how it works on S3000 series.