Discuss the various methods you use in music production, from compressor settings to equipment type.

How Do You Chop Your Breaks?

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By The Beat Conductor Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:27 am
I'm getting an E-MU Proteus 2000 soon, but in the mean time I'm gonna mess around with some breaks because I am really bored with my current drum kits.

By spectre Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:04 am
Does anyone else's method of chopping affect yours? Just use whatever's easy for you.

By The Beat Conductor Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:30 pm
No, I just like to know what works best. What's wrong with that.
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By bhunt Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:50 pm
I chop my breaks in recycle and EQ them a little in there, but I try to keep them dry as possible. Then I export them to the MP where I can layer and fitler them. I stack them a little or filiter 1 and then place the low end under it. I try a lot of different techniques to get my drums to bang. But I always chop them, I have used a midi file a few times to use the break at different tempos if I want to use the break as is
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By dubmunkey Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:49 pm
No, I just like to know what works best. What's wrong with that.

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nothing but i doubt everyone does the same thing all the time- the merits of various chopping techs have been discussed a number of times; a search will probably help you moe than a poll....

greg

By dutch Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:19 am
I use recycle to chop my sounds save and then strait to the mpc from there.

By Toecutter Sat Apr 16, 2005 1:11 pm
It all depends on the sound you are trying to achieve.... what about pre-made drum kits on floppies and cd roms? They have breakbeats on those too these days... anybody ever use pre made loops?

By CRZ Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:29 pm
U AIN'T NO A-ASTRONAUT-NAUT-NAUT-naut...
Last edited by CRZ on Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:20 am, edited 1 time in total.
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By Daath7 Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:38 am
I like to chop in Recycle if I need to tempo correct, Otherwise I just go from the turntable,cd whatever into the MP.
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By cyrus Sun Apr 17, 2005 3:21 am
use your mpc, thats what its for.

do what ever you want.

I chop and i loop, and i also recreate patterns with other drums, and i create my own patterns according to the beat and where the drums need to be.

Whatever the track calls for.

Sometimes looping doesnt cut it because you need an extra kick to accent the bass or part of the track, so you gotta chop a kick out, then layer it with the loop. OR sometimes you need to really slowdown the track so you cant loop it, so you chop it up. Or you need the an original pattern so you chop it up. SOmetimes all the chops dont sound right, so you piece together a kit.

Basically anything goes.