Speed it up (Pete Rock)

Can anyone tell me what pete is doing right here. Seems like he's speeding the whole joint up without changing pitch

Around 1.08

O my bad. Did he chopped it up in such tiny pieces or?

Lampdog wrote:It's not magic, it's chopping, this SAME vid has been discussed extensively in previous years threads.

Beat chopped/sliced into individual hits, each hit played back from the sequencer so that the beat sounds the same as the original.

Allows the tempo of the beat to change with the sequencer tempo.

Aight. Assume he chopped up both the sample and the drums in tiny pieaces and just increased the tempo of the sequence?

Doesn't he explain it in the video ?

also 2000xl doesnt have a multi mute setting (i mean, making it monophonic so each chops silences the previous) which would come in handy when speeding up tempo, and neither a reverb, which in contrary would produce 'air' between chops when slowing down

This is to say that'd probably work even better on newer machines

If it was just a loop, Changing the tempo would of made it fall out of time requiring you to pitch the sample. Since he chopped it, he can speed up or slow down the sequence while keeping it on time & the Original Pitch. Like Lamp said, If you go too fast you'll have to play with the Pitch Param of the chops to keep it natural. If you go too slow, there will be gaps between the chops. That's all he was doing in the video. It can seem confusing cause he said "time stretch" but this is essentially "Manual Time Stretching". Hope you understand. Peace

AKA "Patched Phrases"