Sample slicing - simple question

I have sliced a note from a sample, however, besides from adding reverb is there anything else I can do to make the sample breathe if that makes sense. I was hoping to add some sustain whereas at the moment I play the note and it just ends.

Depends what sampler you are using.
Many samplers give you the option to loop a section of the sample and sustain it till you let go of the key/pad.

on mpc 1000 jjosxl, anychance of any guidance please

I have no JJ experience so you may be better posting in the JJ forum.
Suffice to say, most MPCs are phrase samplers and don;t give you this sort of option.
If JJ doesn;t come up with the goods you could buy a cheap rack sampler. as these give you a lot more options like this, and trigger it from the MPC1000.

Akai s2000 and s3000XL are two such samplers that go for peanuts if you wait around.

Staying in the MPC1000, have you tried using any of the modulation options in the effects section to give your sample some movement?

Any OS on 1000 is capable of making sustain, you just got to find a good spot to loop it somewhere at the end/middle where level or character does not change drastically. It needs some practise, as you can't do it on high pitched note in 44100 rate

Bugfix wrote:Any OS on 1000 is capable of making sustain, you just got to find a good spot to loop it somewhere at the end/middle where level or character does not change drastically. It needs some practise, as you can't do it on high pitched note in 44100 rate

any more details where to start?, this is all new to me.

take your sample

go to trim mode, click loop to on (one of the f buttons)

then drag your loop over to the end and play your sample, notice that it loops the last part, switch it to xfade usually, but there is 3 modes, so play with them and see what works best.

now when your out of trim mode youll notice your sample decays really fast, go to program mode, and go to amplitude and adjust the release to above 70 or 80 or 90 or so.

now it will loop over until you play another sample in the same mute group, or it will fade out really slow.

damien907 wrote:take your sample

go to trim mode, click loop to on (one of the f buttons)

then drag your loop over to the end and play your sample, notice that it loops the last part, switch it to xfade usually, but there is 3 modes, so play with them and see what works best.

now when your out of trim mode youll notice your sample decays really fast, go to program mode, and go to amplitude and adjust the release to above 70 or 80 or 90 or so.

now it will loop over until you play another sample in the same mute group, or it will fade out really slow.

Thanks mate, this has really blown up what I can do now. Well happy, thank you

What version of JJOS is this?

InspectahEX wrote:What version of JJOS is this?

JJOS2XL

damien907 wrote:take your sample

go to trim mode, click loop to on (one of the f buttons)

then drag your loop over to the end and play your sample, notice that it loops the last part, switch it to xfade usually, but there is 3 modes, so play with them and see what works best.

now when your out of trim mode youll notice your sample decays really fast, go to program mode, and go to amplitude and adjust the release to above 70 or 80 or 90 or so.

now it will loop over until you play another sample in the same mute group, or it will fade out really slow.

There is also a nice thing on os2xl, when after you set a loop, you highlight the END field, and change it to LEN (or smth like) standing for "lenght" - this make loop is locked to the lenght and you can move it to search for another spot.

Or…

You can do the DJ Shadow trick as an alternative.

Make two or three copies of the sample. (Depending on the sample)
Cut of the release part of the 1st copy if necessary.
Cut of the attack part of the 2nd copy. Also the release part if necessary.
(Cut of the attack and sustain part of the 3rd copy)

Program the 1st copy, place the 2nd copy a couple of times after the 1st copy until you get the desired length. Program the 3rd copy if necessary.

sometimes on the mpc60 (which this happens on due to the lack of memory for long samples) I will have the full sample and then I will record a piece of sample close to the end area of the first full sample so it's the same pitch/key.. that one can be quite short... then with 16 levels velocity I will repeat that short piece at the end of the full sample which winds up sounding like this fading delay sort of thing... it works for filling in gaps between samples.