I have a mpc chopping feature idea what do u guys think?

imagine ...looking at your sample on a computer monitor .U hit the 1st pad in the lower most left corner on your Mpc.the sample on the screen starts to scroll from left to right.(the waveform moves)while the sample moves there's a cursor indicating the currently audible region.(as the cursor passes over the section of a sample that's what u hear.) then u hit pad 2 a chop is created ,then u hit the 3rd pad another chop is created,then the 4th pad and so on until your sample is chopped across 16,32,48 ,etc,etc, pads.simply as the sample plays you would use the pads to automatically chop and assign your chopped samples to a program. the first pad tap would be the beginning of the sample the next pad tap would be the end of the previous sample as well as the beginning of the next /2nd sample the 3rd pad tap would be the end of the 2nd sample and the beginning of the 3rd sample(sample edits wouldn't be destructive so u could always edit sample to your liking) ...etc,etc,etc..do y'all see what Im getting at?I don't know if this has been talked about before on a mpc but i think it would be a great idea.

I think most DAWs support a "marker or slice by shortcut while play" function. I know logic, cubase and Audition does reaper slices too with shortcut s
These slices can drag and drop in vst sampler like shortcircuit and automaticly get assigned to a single key/pad.
So in a PC environment this is already done (and more cause slice 1 doesn't nessecerly have to end where slice 2 begin and so on)
It should not be very tough to do the "slice/marker" part with a MPC pad instead of the pc keyboard (although I dont see a reason for this).

peace

i hear u. its not on a feature on the mpc though.......u dont think this would be cool on a mpc?I think this would be great..to each his own.

masada2502 wrote:imagine ...looking at your sample on a computer monitor .U hit the 1st pad in the lower most left corner on your Mpc.the sample on the screen starts to scroll from left to right.(the waveform moves)while the sample moves there's a cursor indicating the currently audible region.(as the cursor passes over the section of a sample that's what u hear.) then u hit pad 2 a chop is created ,then u hit the 3rd pad another chop is created,then the 4th pad and so on until your sample is chopped across 16,32,48 ,etc,etc, pads.simply as the sample plays you would use the pads to automatically chop and assign your chopped samples to a program. the first pad tap would be the beginning of the sample the next pad tap would be the end of the previous sample as well as the beginning of the next /2nd sample the 3rd pad tap would be the end of the 2nd sample and the beginning of the 3rd sample(sample edits wouldn't be destructive so u could always edit sample to your liking) ...etc,etc,etc..do y'all see what Im getting at?I don't know if this has been talked about before on a mpc but i think it would be a great idea.

I completely understand what you are saying. This is actually an AMAZING idea! One of the guys over at the Pro Tools forums actually made a hot key tweak for Pro Tools that is actually similar to what you explain. The only difference is, the way it's works is that by pressing the "E" key (or maybe it is D), any audio region your mouse cursor is hoovering over will separate at that location. So you simply mouse over an area and press a letter to chop. But what you just described would be an amazing implementation!

in logic for sure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Oegfzj41U

If you check out You Tube, do a search for Just Blaze and Logic. He does the same thing.

This technique is similar to the Roland samplers where you use the data wheel to move the cursor and then hitting the function keys will add or delete slice markers.

I like all these ideas. Additionlly, I would really like slice implemented like Recycle where I can use a mouse to click in the waveform's time line to insert/delete slice markers.

I know daws can do this but this would be killer in a Mpc

Thx hellfire and jah.jah,I like that idea also! Reason like markers ,good idea