Tutorial: Chopping breaks using Audacity

I was messing around with Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) and found a cool way to chop a break up quickly. Using this with the mpc1000 makes things a lot easier.

1. Open your break. File -> Open
2. Add a label track. Project -> New Label Track
3. Place the cursor where u want to chop the break
4. Add a label. Project -> Add Label At Selection (shortcut is Ctrl+B)
5. Keep adding labels where u want to chop the break.
6. You can name each label of the break if you want.....then when
u save the file names will be the same as the label name.
7. Save the chopped break. Choose File -> Export Multiple
8. You can choose to save the break using consecutive numbers or use the label/track name.
9. Save the chops and then copy across to the mpc1000.
10. Make a banger.

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thanks man i'll try that out. good tip. beats doing it in acid.

Soundforge has a very cool feature for chopping a sample into equal parts (which is another common production technique for beats along with chopping by transient peaks like recycle and the example here).

Ctrl A, select all.

; key, halve current selection

' key, double current selection

Shift >, move selection right by width of current selection

Shift <, move selection left by width of current selection

so you can select and move around by bar, measure, note, half-note etc

and then just copy and paste to a new file or save or drop markers either side of selection to later export file by markers

Jim

I'll give that a go in soundforge as well...I usually use auto region in soundforge.

Recycle does this pretty accurately too

i went for about 4 years without even knowing about the ACID tools in soundforge! i could have saved about a year off my life if i'd known about it sooner...definitely very handy.

I've never found any way in audacity of setting the tempo of the sample... anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks sumedho.
I'm still using an older Mac OS9 version of Recycle.
Too cheap to upgrade now.
It's a lil slow on my system now too.

I already use Audacity anyway.
Audacity could be a short term solution.

peace.

i use my mpc

I have audacity as well but I think recycle is an easier to use program.

cut out wrote:i went for about 4 years without even knowing about the ACID tools in soundforge! i could have saved about a year off my life if i'd known about it sooner...definitely very handy.

I've never found any way in audacity of setting the tempo of the sample... anyone know if this is possible?

edit--->select all
effects--->change tempo

I've got Recycle but I've never really businessed with it...what do manz use it for??

when I chop breaks I just do it in Cool Edit...then timestretch it in Acid.

Whuz da dill?

Bless,

LB