How do I chop up a Sample on the 3000?

on the 60 i had to copy zone to temp or whatevs but on the 3k its a little guilty pleasure i allow myself.. Take the sample, move the start and end points, then copy the sound, assign to new sound and do it all over again. then once ive made my kit or chops i go back and quickly truncate/delete before start and ends of all the pieces i made.. Its just the way that makes sense to me convoluted or no... TBH the only feature i miss from the 2k is the waveform slicing feature... oh and the pads can be used to do track mutes.. not that im goin back to the 2k ever tho...

Xandre wrote:I agree the video is a godsend. It's always a useful resource to find tutorials on youtube, especially for relatively rarer or less publicized gear like the MPC 3000. I've also corresponded with the video poster, holyprophacy, and he was very helpful. A good tutor for sure!

It's not hard to get chopping down the O.G. way; just feels a little time-consuming for my taste, though. I was wondering, does the Vailixi upgrade speed up the process a bit?

thanks for the comment about my video on chopping in the 3000. i'm holyprophacy on you tube.

This may be a bit off topic, but I don't use Zone edit on MPC-2000XL. I find it a bit useless, because XL does not remember zones after moving to other mode, or just selecting to other samples. So, say you edited 16 zones, and then accidentally select other sample, then all the zone setting is gone! And there is no way to keep the zone parameter, I find it quite lacking feature.

Like the basic MPC-3000 way of chopping samples, I'd just make duplicate of the samples and roughly truncate each chops (for saving memory) then adjust start / end points (which MPCs do remember.) I find it faster to do this way.

Although MPC-2000XL's ability to display waveform is useful, often wish that there is option to NOT display waveforms, because XL would slow down during plotting waveform.

JVC wrote:This may be a bit off topic, but I don't use Zone edit on MPC-2000XL. I find it a bit useless, because XL does not remember zones after moving to other mode, or just selecting to other samples. So, say you edited 16 zones, and then accidentally select other sample, then all the zone setting is gone! And there is no way to keep the zone parameter, I find it quite lacking feature.

Like the basic MPC-3000 way of chopping samples, I'd just make duplicate of the samples and roughly truncate each chops (for saving memory) then adjust start / end points (which MPCs do remember.) I find it faster to do this way.

Although MPC-2000XL's ability to display waveform is useful, often wish that there is option to NOT display waveforms, because XL would slow down during plotting waveform.

I agree 3000 > You can mess with attack, tune etc single sample assigned to different pads. If you want to adjust start/end times then you have to duplicate it.

duffy wrote:

JVC wrote:This may be a bit off topic, but I don't use Zone edit on MPC-2000XL. I find it a bit useless, because XL does not remember zones after moving to other mode, or just selecting to other samples. So, say you edited 16 zones, and then accidentally select other sample, then all the zone setting is gone! And there is no way to keep the zone parameter, I find it quite lacking feature.

Like the basic MPC-3000 way of chopping samples, I'd just make duplicate of the samples and roughly truncate each chops (for saving memory) then adjust start / end points (which MPCs do remember.) I find it faster to do this way.

Although MPC-2000XL's ability to display waveform is useful, often wish that there is option to NOT display waveforms, because XL would slow down during plotting waveform.

I agree 3000 > You can mess with attack, tune etc single sample assigned to different pads. If you want to adjust start/end times then you have to duplicate it.

i know its an annoying issue... my workaround ( though not very elegant) is to write the start/end points of the last chop on peace of paper, so that i start at exactly the same start poing on the next chop, etc..... helps, in my case at least.

Wonder if that issue is resolved in Vailixi OS?

JVC wrote:This may be a bit off topic, but I don't use Zone edit on MPC-2000XL. I find it a bit useless, because XL does not remember zones after moving to other mode, or just selecting to other samples. So, say you edited 16 zones, and then accidentally select other sample, then all the zone setting is gone! And there is no way to keep the zone parameter, I find it quite lacking feature.

Like the basic MPC-3000 way of chopping samples, I'd just make duplicate of the samples and roughly truncate each chops (for saving memory) then adjust start / end points (which MPCs do remember.) I find it faster to do this way.

Although MPC-2000XL's ability to display waveform is useful, often wish that there is option to NOT display waveforms, because XL would slow down during plotting waveform.

sure, if you wait for the entire waveform to load... if you notice next time, ignore the wave form and roll the jog wheel.. push the pad or button and it starts at the startpoint regardless if the wave form has even caught up to where your start point is.

mr_debauch wrote:sure, if you wait for the entire waveform to load... if you notice next time, ignore the wave form and roll the jog wheel.. push the pad or button and it starts at the startpoint regardless if the wave form has even caught up to where your start point is.

I know.
No, of course I don't wait XL to finish plotting waveform . I just don't like the sluggishness during waveform being plotted. Hit pad and there would be some latency. Minor issue, but a bit annoying.

JVC wrote:

mr_debauch wrote:sure, if you wait for the entire waveform to load... if you notice next time, ignore the wave form and roll the jog wheel.. push the pad or button and it starts at the startpoint regardless if the wave form has even caught up to where your start point is.

I know.
No, of course I don't wait XL to finish plotting waveform . I just don't like the sluggishness during waveform being plotted. Hit pad and there would be some latency. Minor issue, but a bit annoying.

oh oh, I thought you were talking about the delay of the waveform. haha, sorry.. didn't mean to point out the obvious in that case.

jazzroom wrote:

duffy wrote:

JVC wrote:This may be a bit off topic, but I don't use Zone edit on MPC-2000XL. I find it a bit useless, because XL does not remember zones after moving to other mode, or just selecting to other samples. So, say you edited 16 zones, and then accidentally select other sample, then all the zone setting is gone! And there is no way to keep the zone parameter, I find it quite lacking feature.

Like the basic MPC-3000 way of chopping samples, I'd just make duplicate of the samples and roughly truncate each chops (for saving memory) then adjust start / end points (which MPCs do remember.) I find it faster to do this way.

Although MPC-2000XL's ability to display waveform is useful, often wish that there is option to NOT display waveforms, because XL would slow down during plotting waveform.

I agree 3000 > You can mess with attack, tune etc single sample assigned to different pads. If you want to adjust start/end times then you have to duplicate it.

i know its an annoying issue... my workaround ( though not very elegant) is to write the start/end points of the last chop on peace of paper, so that i start at exactly the same start poing on the next chop, etc..... helps, in my case at least.

Wonder if that issue is resolved in Vailixi OS?

I don't have Vailixi OS. But when I duplicate - the start times are the same as the original. So if my start times not zero then so is my copy. Tangent. Not using different tracks for different instruments is a bad habit.