Re-zoning a written break

Heya...

got a question for you peeps out there..

ive written my break from scratch (indiv. hits etc.) .. say 16 bars long... varied with little chops etc. here and there.. only beats.. now i want to take that and zone it and chop it up so i can play the chops on the pads... like when you've sampled some ones beat and you go in zone and chop it.

The only way i can get close to doing this is by going in and copying bars and re-arranging them... but i cant assign the bars to the pads and play them..

i need to "re-sample" my break and then zone it..

Hope this makes sense.. hard to explain what i mean...

any takers... Cheers!!

could you maybe burn your break to a cd, then sample off that cd into a new program. Get to choppin that sample and assign it to the pads you want. Thats how I would do it.

Cheers for the reply..

ive thought of things like that.. and im thinking i may end up doing that... i was hoping there might be some trick on the MPC so i wouldnt have to burn down..and drop it back in... but i think i may have to do just that..

thanks...

Try this link http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php ... highlight=

I checked the link... some good tips on there .. and i havent really experimented with the insert sound function...which i should make use of...

with regards to my thread... are you suggesting i try and insert a sound..??

after ive written a pattern.. how do i turn it into a sound..?

maybe the song mode function .. i recal using it once and it converts your sequences to a song or something... i might be able to convert it in there....i'll have to check that before i think more about it...

thanks for the link

If your samples are under one wav. you could use the new sound feature in your trim screen. My bad I should've been clearer. What you would do is highlight the section you want to single out hit edit and scroll over to new sound. Name that part and repeat the process. After you have chopped the sample up you then arrange the samples on to the pad under the drum program of your choice. For an accurate arrangement I would advise that you put a number on the end off the sample parts to reflect the order they are to be played back in. You could always change the names again after you've programed them all to pads. I Hope I understood you correctly and that this technique helps.

Thats the thing.. i havent used a loop or anything.. ive written the break from scratch using individual hits...

when you do that it's a sequence.. how do i turn that sequence into a sound so i can bring it up in the trim screen.. cause its still a sequence of individual hits.. its hard to explain what i mean

sorry if im being confusing...

"how do i turn that sequence into a sound so i can bring it up in the trim screen.. cause its still a sequence of individual hits.."

You can't. Couldn't you just make each bar its own sequence and work from that? Shouldn't be too complicated...

DustByte wrote:Thats the thing.. i havent used a loop or anything.. ive written the break from scratch using individual hits...

when you do that it's a sequence.. how do i turn that sequence into a sound so i can bring it up in the trim screen.. cause its still a sequence of individual hits.. its hard to explain what i mean

sorry if im being confusing...

Alright I think what you're saying is you used modules, correct? If so the only way you can get those sounds to pads would be to sample burn out and sample back in.

I got a question, did you lay your stuff all on one sequencer tracks or did you do them separate? Here's an idea if you did them on separate tracks... solo like kicks... and burn that to a cd, then like the snare, burn that to a separate cd... etc. this way if you want to chop it you have all the different pieces all separated so you can use them without having different sounds layered on top of them... use a CDRW if you can so you don't write over it and waste money. If you're using a multitrack, you can also solo your tracks and sample them off of the outputs of the multitrack...

Yeah i did write them all on seperate tracks.. kick track 1 snare track 2 etc...

your right i should just use my CDRW and dump it down to that and then just load it up as a wave in the trim screen, zone it and chopit and then it will go onto the pads so i can play them off that..

i just wish you could convert a sequence you've written to a "whole" wav and then load that up in the trim screen.

Cheers for the advice boyz..

On the MPC1000 if you go to to the record screen you can record the main out so that you can turn your sequence in to a sample and then assign it to a pad,

Hope that helps!
cheers all

Honestly, I might be dense, but why won't you, like I pointed out before, just make each bar (or even 1/4 a bar) its own sequence, and then "play" them off the pads in, say, Next Seq mode.

16 bars, too, huh? If you have layered tracks with lots of samples, I don't see the MPC's memory capacity being able to cope with that either. (Depending on which model you have of course...)

why burn it to disk when you can just use your floppy or zip?

Dustbyte,
If I'm not mistaken, you want to make your beat sound like you sampled it from a recording and then chop it up in the MPC. I think that's a cool effect. Why not record it on a tape recorder and then sample back into the MPC? Using tape will make it sound lofi and grungy, closer to a vinyl sound. Plus it will compress the sound a little. Try it, you have nothing to lose.