MPC 1000 sample chopping Question??

On the MPC 1000 can u play ur drum pattern while chopping the samples to make sure they sound right? if u understand what im saying any help is appreciated, What im trying to do is lay down my drums then while im doing my chops manually i want to play the drum pattern and as im fine tuning my chops i wanna play each chop over the pattern to fine tune more Thanks

Just hit play and imagine yourself as Abdula the butcher.

is there a setting because when i play my drum pattern and then go to chop my sample when i push a pad to hear my chops it doesnt work i have to stop the drums from playing and then it lets me play my sample chops sorry im still pretty new to this i appreciate the help

Akai OS yes? You should look into JJOS. Links are on top of main page. Get it as it chops faster and better. I use JJOSXL and it has a non destructive chop function.
But in the case of Akai OS > Did you make a program from your chops? did you assign the program to a track? It will not play until you make a program and assign that program to the track you are playing on.

you have to hold the pad down to hear anything in TRIM mode, hitting it wont trigger the full sample in like it does in your program.......

i think he wants to hear the program as he's chopping it ?

i have the jjos free version and no i havent made a program yet cause what i want to do is while im in trim mode doing my chops i would like to be able to play my drum pattern which i already made so i make sure my chops match ive seen it done on the 5000 just curious if the 1000 was capable

i just tried this out on jjos2xl on my mpc 1k, i played my sequence then hit mode+trim, and yes you can hear the drum sequence playing while viewing the waveform, you can also adjust the start and end points of that sample, but you cant move the cursor over from chop:off to chop:on in ndc mode, and you cant click f5 to go into destructive chopping either.

i suppose you could make it work if you copied your loop however many times and named them something different then adjusted the start and end points of each of your chops while the sequence was playing in the background.
the reason you would have to name it something different is because in trim mode when you adjust a sample it adjusts the play back of the audio file non-destructively, so for example if you change the start point from 00000 to 000025 when you go back to program mode the mpc will reference where you put your start and end points of that sample and play from 000025 accordingly.
you would be tricking the mpc by copying the same loop and naming it different things each time, so when you adjusted the start and end points, it would work because it would only be referencing that particular sample.

it seems like a weird way to work, why do you want to do this exactly?

cant you just chop in ndc or destructive chopping mode like everyone else? why do you need to hear the drum beat in the background? you know that if your chops dont match up exactly when your done chopping in destructive mode, you can use loop mode or timestretch so all your samples mesh together nicely even if they arent perfect.

if you want to play your beat slower than the original sample tempo, most of the time you have to use loop mode or timestretch anyway because the band didnt play everything 100% on time.

on the other hand if you play it faster and set up your mute groups correctly then most times the listener, you included, would be hard pressed to tell that your sample didnt stop or start in the exact right place. after you get the hang of chopping, it usually just works, and thats the beauty of sampling. we have all these great tools at our disposal to remix something, all you have to do is take the time to learn how to use them.

It was just something i saw hillprop do on a youtube beatmaking video on his 5000 and thought it looked like a cool way to chop wanted to try it out honestly i dont even know what ndc or descriptive chopping is i usually use auto chop and then adjust all my chops the way i want them to im still learning this MPC so any help is greatly apprecited Chopping is the hardest aspect for me now!! thanks damien907

check this out

non destructive chopping or ndc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8W-MHxgERM

destructive chopping (this is nyms method of destructive chopping on the mpc, i count my bars, then use the slice function until i get that amount roughly then adjust my chops accordingly, youll be able to figure out what works best for you though)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K3sfXO6ySY