Choppin samples on the MPC

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Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By Ill-Green Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:00 am
Really I prefer chopping manually. I wouldn't want the computer to chop for me. There might be a milisecond of goodness missing if I let the machine do it for me and we all know computers aint got soul unless the user applies his.

Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By logic_user99 Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:07 pm
Ill-Green wrote:Really I prefer chopping manually. I wouldn't want the computer to chop for me. There might be a milisecond of goodness missing if I let the machine do it for me and we all know computers aint got soul unless the user applies his.
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Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By Menco Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:02 pm
Ill-Green wrote:Really I prefer chopping manually. I wouldn't want the computer to chop for me. There might be a milisecond of goodness missing if I let the machine do it for me and we all know computers aint got soul unless the user applies his.


A calculator is also a computer :wink:
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Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By mr_debauch Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:50 pm
well I find recycle more handy then an mpc when I want to make rex or rex2 files... which are great for the dr rex player or fruity slicer... maybe that might shed some light on what makes recycle handy.

Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By logic_user99 Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:54 pm
I spent some time earlier on chopping a break I'd made in Live. Went from full break to 12 pads chopped with a complete program set up in about 20 minutes.

High five for workflow! God I love the 500...

Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By thecatinside Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:02 pm
I'm chopping breaks in recycle or audacity. I'm trimming all the samples I've recorded inside mpc.

Here's a more general question about chopping that propably could go to production-forum as well.

Do you chop your drums to single hits or longer chunks of hits. I've always cutted my breaks into tightest single shots possible. I dug out my endtroducing a couple of months ago and DJ shadows breaks have this natural sounding quality like they've just been looped.. Is anyone of you lot chopping breaks in to longer chunks instead of singleshots?

Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By logic_user99 Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:10 pm
I chop my breaks into hits, but always cut as close to the next hit as possible; this gives me plenty of 'air' to play with and keeps loops sounding natural if I decide to play them straight through.

If I want a 'tighter' hit, then I assign the chops to a separate set of pads and work the decay settings. This means I only have to work with one set of cuts (saves on sample time, too).
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Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By BLiTzZD Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:27 pm
thecatinside wrote:I'm chopping breaks in recycle or audacity. I'm trimming all the samples I've recorded inside mpc.

Here's a more general question about chopping that propably could go to production-forum as well.

Do you chop your drums to single hits or longer chunks of hits. I've always cutted my breaks into tightest single shots possible. I dug out my endtroducing a couple of months ago and DJ shadows breaks have this natural sounding quality like they've just been looped.. Is anyone of you lot chopping breaks in to longer chunks instead of singleshots?


Depends on how I want the track to go. If you want more of the original flava, longer chunks. If you want 100% personalization, short shots. ( So far, I've been single shotting 95%)
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Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By Menco Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:58 pm
Instead of one shots chop it up in slices, like 4 bars into 16 equal parts.
Or take more kicks, hats and snares out of one break instead of just one. Not every drum hit sounds the same. This also gives a more live feel to ur drumpatterns.
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Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By ssnedden Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:08 pm
thecatinside wrote:Do you chop your drums to single hits or longer chunks of hits. I've always cutted my breaks into tightest single shots possible. I dug out my endtroducing a couple of months ago and DJ shadows breaks have this natural sounding quality like they've just been looped.. Is anyone of you lot chopping breaks in to longer chunks instead of singleshots?


All the time...

Have chunks well-chopped on the same mutegroup. In One-Shot mode. I never cut off the ends. So each pad is the break with a different start point. So when you hit another startpoint the last one stops. You can still do patterns that use a new pad every 1/8th or 1/16th note but it sounds more natural when you do it like this if it's chopped right.

Or..

Have chunks on one shots, not on mute groups, with decay on each so that they overlap just a little bit.

And (used in conjunction with either of the above):

Have the same chops (sample3 and sample3) on two different pads with two different EQs and or Filters. Have them quantized to start at the same time, and adjust the EQ and/or filters til it sounds fat as shit.

Or...

Have chops of a break, like above, and take a kick out of it too. Fatten the kick a shitload and layer it on top. Repeat for snares and other drums if you want too.

I got more... :?

Re: Choppin samples on the MPC

By baatbaat Sat May 16, 2009 2:16 pm
logic_user99 wrote:I spent some time earlier on chopping a break I'd made in Live. Went from full break to 12 pads chopped with a complete program set up in about 20 minutes.

High five for workflow! God I love the 500...


20 minutes? That's impressive...I chop at half that rate - still, I'm a student
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