Nondestructive chopping! Whoa!

astronaut wrote:

Coz wrote:The chops are layed out sequentially for you to play in whatever order you want, so I'm not sure there is much of a benefit to a single pad triggering the full loop.

oh, I did not mean the fool loop. Lemme give you an example: Say you take a snare and sample it by hitting it ten times. Now you make ten chops and assign the full sample i.e. all 10 chops to one pad, but when you hit the pad it will play the chops sequentially (or even better randomly), i.e. hit the pad, it plays the first chop, hit the pad again it plays the second chop, and so on in a loop, this way it does not sound like you're playing the same sample every time.

You could use the Q-Link sliders, set to chop..

-niN wrote:You could use the Q-Link sliders, set to chop..

Great idea, thank you.

-niN wrote:
You could use the Q-Link sliders, set to chop..

I do use it like this:

I tried something different: Recorded a midi phrase with my Yamaha Rm1x. The phrase is just 32 CC event recording which goes to the MPC's Slider which is linked to the chop function of the track. The Rm1x loops the phrase and scrolls through the 32 NDC chops, so I get somewhat realistic drums.

from this topic: viewtopic.php?p=1356380#p1356380

As mentioned in that thread: LFO controlling chop/CC would be ideal.

astronaut wrote:

-niN wrote:
You could use the Q-Link sliders, set to chop..

I do use it like this:

I tried something different: Recorded a midi phrase with my Yamaha Rm1x. The phrase is just 32 CC event recording which goes to the MPC's Slider which is linked to the chop function of the track. The Rm1x loops the phrase and scrolls through the 32 NDC chops, so I get somewhat realistic drums.

from this topic: viewtopic.php?p=1356380#p1356380

hmmm, i am trying to get my head round if this is possible by just routing a midi cable from one of the mpc outs to an in??

could you create a drum track with lets say 1/16th hi-hats using a program that incorporates a hi-hat NDC sample. can the program then (in an empty bank for instance) use the 'MIDI NOTE/CC' function to have CC#1 on step1, CC#2 on step 2 etc with Q1Slider as the function? Or would I also need to use 'Pad to MIDI out' to set to the values, by using some empty pads in the program.

will this step through the chops at each hit??? does it even make sense?

I think the benefit of the RM1x trick is that it allows for unexpected chop selections if the units run at different tempos. Using the MPC sequencer to program slider control yields predictable chop selections.

consuming wrote:I think the benefit of the RM1x trick is that it allows for unexpected chop selections if the units run at different tempos. Using the MPC sequencer to program slider control yields predictable chop selections.

actually you don't need the Rm1x to run at a different tempo to achieve that, just use the BEAT Stretch effect, it slows down or speeds up the tempo of the selected track.

Is it possible to have a sample chopped into a number of chops other than 32? In most cases, 16 per sample is enough, but the 16 are all in the first half of the sample (lots of movement work).

martin wrote:Is it possible to have a sample chopped into a number of chops other than 32? In most cases, 16 per sample is enough, but the 16 are all in the first half of the sample (lots of movement work).

I use the SLICE function for that. You still get 32 chops, but you can adjust the number of slices. If you have 16 slices, the first 16 chops will be the same as the 16 slices, the other 16 chops can be ignored.