Choppy Chops

So I'm still fairly new to the MPC1000. At this point I can navigate my way around the hardware pretty easily; record, trim, chop, program, sequence. Biggest issue I have at the moment is getting my loops smooth and not choppy (i.e gaps).

Just wondering what some of your methods are for quickly making important adjustments to samples/chops to get that smooth loop happening. I'm guessing its a mixture of a few things; Pitch/tune, time stretching, patched phrase, loop mode?

Drums seem to be a lot easier to manipulate and get sounding spot on as opposed to melody loops.

Cheers.


P.S just updated to JJ OS1 v4.99

Try to put a bit of decay on each chop,like 1 or 2 so you don't have a click at the end. You can try to change the bpm of your sequence very shortly, or maybe time stretch the chops that are shorter than the others.

But what I do most of the time when I have this kind of problem is that:
-Chop the sample the way you want, but make your chops a little longer than you should, like you have a bit of the next sound after.
-Find the way you want to record your chops.
-Go to the mute assign screen, and assign your mutes so each chop mutes the one before.

I don't know if it's clear, but it works most of the time for me!

yea similiar to what Borat said...let each chop play out a bit longer, instead of stopping right on the next start point of the next chop and/or add a bit of delay to the chops

i chopped inside soundforge for the longest time and another way i used to prevent pops/clicks at the start or end of a chop, would be to add just a smidge of either fade in or fade out, to get that exact zero cross

Cheers for the advice, makes perfect sense. Although, with this technique I assume your not using 'chop shop', but instead extracting chops manually? Currently chopping up a loop now, and If i was to let each chop overlap into the next one the start points would all be fkd up. Anyway, again thanks. Ill keep at it

Don't use chop shop (personal opinion, but seriously, don't use it... )!

Still learning mate.

Yeah so, this time I chopped up a sample using extract instead of chop shop and applied a mute group over them all. Definite improvement! Took a lot longer than chop shop, but yeah.

Recommending to check out jjos2xl, has lot of improvements on chopping:

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