Strange Glitch...

Hey everybody, long time no write! Well, today I was making a beat with my 1000, and I came across a cool glitch... Heres a description:

I recorded about 45 seconds of audio from a record. I went into trim to chop it up. I got all the way to the end of the main sample I was recording, and on the last piece, I noticed a strange glitch. Although I only had selected about "20" worth of audio between the start and end, it was playing the whole sample. It only played the whole sample when I hit the LOOP pad (13). If I change the numbers so that the selected area is any more, it would basically make only that frequency type sound you get with small blips of audio when looped... the more the number went away from what I had, the pitch of this distorted sound would go up and change around. If I adjusted the number back to where that "20" was, and move the numbers into the inside of this area, the pitch of the whole sample would then go up. It goes back to playing the whole sample, but the pitch is now controled. Heres a pic of the screen...



So now what I did was extract this small little piece of the big sample, and then I assigned it to a new programs pad. When I first tried to play it, nothing, so I went into trim and set it to loop. Then I made it NOTE ON, mono. IT WORKED. This huge sample that was previously recorded is playing through this tiny little blip of a sample?!?!?!? This is crazy. I think when I restart the mpc, the sample will lose its strange ghost audio... I will post again in a little bit... I also have some video of me playing with the 1000 to demo this glitch. I think it may have something to do with the numbers? let me know if you guys have any ideas? Its really got some strange potential because maybe the mpc can actually write audio data into tiny little files, and then we could just store tons of them on our cards. The actual sample is usable too, because when you adjust the pitch of this little sample, you can get it to play exactly as the original recording sounds. Anyone confused yet?

Does anyone have the ability to host a video file of this glitch I made? Email me at [email protected] if so. Ill email it to you asap. Thanks everyone!

I finished choping up my other samples, and then I saved the program. I restarted my MPC. the tiny little audio file still plays this really long sample, but sounds almost like a toy running out of batteries. The long sample is there, but its all crunchy and digital sounding. But still really cool, especially for people who want to get more orbital type sounds... techno, or crazy intros and such... I am going to play around with all of these new samples and try to get the same effect from a new sample. Let me know what you guys find. And Id be glad to have someone post up this sample and the video so everyone can see what Im talking about. Peace -Jesse

i would like to know does this work when u just have the cut sample in memory without the original sample in memory.

yer - this happened to me a while ago... got some really crazy mulched sounds. I just thought it was a glitch/bug so worked around it by reloading the sample into the affected program.

I hope they bring thiis in as an actual function - the 1k needs some more 'make fu£k$d up sounds' tools (velocity to sample start anyone...?)

thanks, that sounds really cool!
it's always good to be able to mangle sounds.

upload it to www.yousendit.com please !

word jessiah. very interesting. have you noticed that it will sometimes pull another sample from your program and play it at the same time as well?

i was just about to do this to a snare to make it sound grimy but as soon as i made the selected area super small, it would now play a bass drum sample and a hi hat sample i had from another part of my program at the same time.

weird. this is cool, but now its a bit annoying that its pulling in random samples when i try to do this. anyone mess with this yet?

i kinda couldnt follow your description but if it's what i think it is, a lot of samplers do this. it's a cool trick and you can get lots of crazy sounds from it if you record it.

is it basically you take a loop, make it one or 2 samples long and then the sampler freaks out? it plays back all this old sh1t stored in its RAM right? the s3000xl did it, the EPS did it, the 1k does it too. i havent tried it yet on the 2kXL, maybe it does it too...?

if im misunderstanding just ignore me then

that sounds pretty on point.

when i made the START point only 1 or 2 less than the END point the 1k freaked out. with each number that i decreased the start point the whole sample would play and get more detuned/grungy. and if you it assign this same sample to a pad and set it to "note on" then you can use it in a seq or resample it in the record screen(which is how i originally planned to do it for drums once i read jessiah's post).

this is basically just a shorter explanation of what jessiah was talking about earlier. i never about knew this until he started this thread.

...now if i could only figure out how to do this without the sampler including other random samples i have loaded in the ram i would be in heaven.

the bit grunger on the 1k sucks a didick.
especially compared to this trick. sigh.....

peace.

cut out wrote:yer - this happened to me a while ago... got some really crazy mulched sounds. I just thought it was a glitch/bug so worked around it by reloading the sample into the affected program.

I hope they bring thiis in as an actual function - the 1k needs some more 'make fu£k$d up sounds' tools (velocity to sample start anyone...?)

i only have that problem whe ni use bluebox to make a pgm

Ok, so you dont need a video to see the demo. I can teach you all how to do the "MINI SAMPLE". I am going to post a new thread with the full tutorial... HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps: I hope I can take credit for figuring this one out, cuz I never new you could do this before!!!!!!!

tiger vomitt wrote:is it basically you take a loop, make it one or 2 samples long and then the sampler freaks out? it plays back all this old sh1t stored in its RAM right? the s3000xl did it, the EPS did it, the 1k does it too. i havent tried it yet on the 2kXL, maybe it does it too...?

Yeah, my ASR10 did that to me a while back.
My 2kxl, never heard it (just tried it)
My Extreme, never heard it either (just tried it).

did you set the file to note on (or off, depending on the mpc model), and the loop to on?