general sampling question

Hi Guys, I never usually sample, I mainly just record audio, so please forgive me if this question is a little basic. here goes....


for eg. say you made a beat at 90 bpm you like... your trying to fit a sample over it (from a record say) and you dont know its tempo...but its alot slower maybe 70 bpm


if you cut the samples from the record to start on beat (or at peak of wave) and then play them through your keyboard/pads in time with the original beat you made at 90bpm ..... Will it work??


or do you need to stretch the sample from the record to match your beat that you made in the first place, before you slice it and assign it to pads in exs24?

do you have to stretch the sample to match the beat?

is it better to stretch the sample to fit drums before you split the sample up ?

right at the end of your post you mention slicing ... are you slicing the sample or not?

if you are, you don't need to worry about its tempo, just play the individual slices when you want them. if you're not slicing, just trying to play a 70bpm sample over a 90bpm sample, then that's not going to work, you'd need to stretch it or slow it down

yes I meant that I want to slice the sample and assign it to different pads.

so you dont need to know the tempo of the song your sampling from ? as long as you slice it


would this same technique work/sound good if you were sampling from really slow records like around 70 bpm and playing them over 120 bpm beats you made

thanks, Im a total beginner

the best way to find out is just to try it because it depends on the sample. for a musical sample playing a melody it might not work to just slice it up and you'd need to stretch it to fit the length you want, but for a drum sample that you slice into individual hits, you might not need to stretch it