Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Cash_Carter Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:07 pm
Man I been watching youtube and I seen a couple of people including Pete Rock that chop up a sample and play it back by hitting the 16 pads, then they start adjusting something to where the sample starts to go faster and faster until the producer finds the speed that they want the sample at and it plays at that speed. I have a sample I chopped up and right now its going slow and I want to know how can I speed it up without having to make my 95.0 tempo go up?????
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By i3obby lFingers Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:22 pm
Cash_Carter wrote:Man I been watching youtube and I seen a couple of people including Pete Rock that chop up a sample and play it back by hitting the 16 pads, then they start adjusting something to where the sample starts to go faster and faster until the producer finds the speed that they want the sample at and it plays at that speed. I have a sample I chopped up and right now its going slow and I want to know how can I speed it up without having to make my 95.0 tempo go up?????
pitch shift, i think i meant time stretch sorry....
Last edited by i3obby lFingers on Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:02 am, edited 1 time in total.
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By mrbeatz Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:33 am
He was basically chopping the sample into such tiny pieces that he was able to increase the tempo of the beat while playing it back. It's the beat tempo that's going faster, not the sample itself.
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By four eyes Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:49 am
are you guys serious? i know he referred to the pete rock video but it was a pointless reference. he is actually not trying to do what pete rock did.

if he's talking about the same pete rock video everybody talks about, pete speed up the sample because its chopped into 8ths (if i remember correctly) and he just upped the tempo to make it sound faster. he wasnt looking to match or keep to an exact tempo. just speed it up.

but this guy asked how you speed up the sample NOT the tempo. choppin the sample and adjusting tempo like your saying is pointless if he wants to keep it at specifically 95 bpm.

there's gonna be tuning and/or time stretch involved.