chopping on the mpc500

Wadup

So I decided to try figure out the trim feature on the 500 (yeh Iv read the manual) and **** I get the theory of it but it's a nightmare for the workflow and is making me wanna upgrade machine ( prior to this session I woulda said buy a diffrent machine). Anyone got some tips for a committed cat? I'm
Not a fan of the chop n transfer from pc method at all like may aswell use fruity loops with a controller. Any feed back would be dope.

Pce!

Many ways to chop on the 500. The most used is the Extract feature. Its easy, just trim your start and end points but don't discard anything and go to EXTRACT, the trimmed sample will be a new sample and you start again trimming the next chop from the sample.

Or you can do it ninja style by copying the sample to all the pads and just trim each one... poor man's NDC.

Yeh cheers green, stuck at it for the last 5 hours and 8 beers think I got the hang of it. Spose that practice thing pays off huh....:p

yea.. the practice does pay off man.. i use to do it in the computer back in the day, sometimes i chop on my 1000, but im happier doing it on the 500. i usually just copy the sample to other pads and chop accordingly. also use shift to move the very next number over, if that makes any sense... chopping by ear is gonna help u in the future and if u stick with it you should be able to concur any mpc

for chopping use the last 4 pad in trim mode !

inflict3 wrote: also use shift to move the very next number over, if that makes any sense...

What exactly do you mean here man?

When ur chopping there is a long ass number. If u press shift while hitting the curser key u move one character at a time. I'm sure this is nothing new.. Sometimes I tap the pad repeatedly while I turn the jogwheel through the air right before the hit and when I can barely start to hear that hit while tapping the pad fast as **** then I know I'm there. U will get faster at it

No graphical view, all ears.
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This how I learned and I still do it this way.I`d be lost looking at a waveform.Shoot I started with pause button looping on a tape deck.Bouncing tracks on that Tascam portastudio back in the day.Good Times!!

Wave forms can be a little bit off sometimes.
It's a real blessing editing samples by looking at a wave, but when you're looking for that real tight starting point you're better of trusting those ears.

To OP:
If you can chop sample up on that 500 you'll be able to chop samples on anything.

Menco wrote:If you can chop sample up on that 500 you'll be able to chop samples on anything.

What he said.