Choping Samples

Hi im a new producer. I wanna learn all i can. I hope i dont sound like a complete idiot but was is choping samples. Could someone explain or maybe give me an example. Thanks for those who reply.

Chopping samples. The process of taking a long sample, for instace a drum break. You edit the sample into individual hits. Then the individual hits are assigned to the keyboard, with each hit of the drum break on its very own key(or pad).

Study the editing portion of your sampler's manual.

Choppin samples is just cutting whatever sample you have into pieces.

I.e. you have a sample that you want to fit for some drums, you chop up the sample to make it fit. Or you have a nice drum break that you want to manipulate and mess around with. You chop it up in order to have the kick, snare, hi-hat, percussion whatever.

That's it.

can i chop samples with mpc 1k?

Yes.

brooklynstyle wrote:can i chop samples with mpc 1k?

Sure. I you can chop your samples up in Acid Pro, Logic, ProTools whatever and import it to your MPC. Would probably be easier.

how do i do that with soundforge though?

brooklynstyle wrote:how do i do that with soundforge though?

Chop with the S-key on your keyboard, copy and paste...

for real? how do u do that? can u explain a lil bit more?
thanks

brooklynstyle wrote:for real? how do u do that? can u explain a lil bit more?
thanks

Just open your sample in Soundforge and work with if from there.
And as I said before, you can chop the sample (cut it) using the S-button on your keyboard, and copy/paste like you would do in i.e. Microsoft Word.

Its kinda hard to explain cause there are no rules, but just mess around with it.

I'll help you out anytime. Ive been using Acid Pro 4.0 for some time now and now almost anything there is to know about that program, so just get at me on MSN or AIM whenever!

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thanks incognito,
thats what i'm doing but i thought theres some special function in soundforge to chop up your sample. Otherwise i can chop it up myself manually. thanks though homes.
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brooklynstyle wrote:thanks incognito,
thats what i'm doing but i thought theres some special function in soundforge to chop up your sample. Otherwise i can chop it up myself manually. thanks though homes.
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Oh ok. Cool.

You're welcome

chopping in the mpc1000 is easy too.

For instance, ill put on a record, and record it into the mpc. (or just load up a long sample you have as a wav file)

If you assign the sample to any free pad on a drum kit your using, just make sure the pad is selected in the PROGRAM page, then hit MODE-TRIM. In the TRIM page, you can set the start point at the begining of the first piece of sample, and then get the end point correct as well. If you hit DOIT, the mpc will ask you if you want to delete everything outside of this area you selected. If you rotate the wheel, the screen will now say EXTRACT. basically, you can extract from one big sample a bunch of little samples and then assign all of those little extracted pieces onto other pads, thus "chopping" up your sample and making it more spread out and easier to play around with. Do some research...

Just wanted to say good lookin out thanks. I understand now. Thanks again