chopping and filtering question

hey I got one question if anybody had a similar problem please respond. yo! i,ve got my sample chopped into 32 chops and everzthing sounds ok .I want to filter the bassline out of it so i put a filter on a sample my problem is that when the sample is filtered you can hear that it doesnt sound fluent. you know its like i can hear the chops that my sample consists of. any method of finding out whether the sample is chopped properly??or do i have to change the pitch every now and then and check whether it,s allright?i have no idea so far and spend a long time trying to change the pitch.big up and peace

Check your chop points. If it sounds too 'choppy' (no pun intended) then you should try chopping at the beginning and end of events (drum hits, notes, etc.). When looking at the waveform, you mostly want your chops to start at a peak (where the waveform goes from soft to loud - beginning of a drum hit/brass stab/piano chord etc.) and end just before the next peak.

Also try messing with the envelope. I can't really give you any pointers because every sample (and sometimes every chop) is different so you just gotta mess with it until it works.

when you chop samples its quite common to lose a few miliseconds here or there.

try alt looping the samples to make the chops last longer, (os1 upwards)

you can also use crossfade loop if your on os2xl.


also if the chops are more frequent than the bass notes youve filtered down to, this will give a choppiness. Imagine a bass note that lasts a beat, but you chop it into 4 - itll sound like 4 notes being triggered rather than one long smooth note. you might have to rechop - using the bass notes as a guide to where you put the chop points. There are lot of times when it isnt suitable to chop into 16 or 32.

I don't really understand your problem. but...

Try assigning the filter cutoff to one of the q-link sliders. Set the filter freq at 50 and use the slider to see which cutoff sounds better.

Try setting the RELEASE to 0

Its your chops, Start by saving a copy of the beat so if you phuck up you can go backed to the saved copy THEN solo out the track with the sample. Check the attack of each sample and also mess with the release. After that while the sample track is SOLOed adjust the overall tempo + or - to see if it can line up better. Also try timestretch. Depending on the sample the original BPM may not be consistent and you will need to do a little work to line it up better.