Fitting samples with the MPC

I am trying to use a sample of an old Elton John record as the "base" of my beat. I want it to keep looping over and over while I put drums and a bassline over it. Whever I seem to get the sample how I want, and put it on a pad and start recording, I can never get the sample to be exactly the size of the sequence (bars) Sometimes there's a pause when it loops back over, other times it just overlaps it...if you understand what I'm trying to do and know of how I could do what I want, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

adjusting the tempo should sort that out

Your the man, thanks for the help

Niceweis914 wrote:Your the man, thanks for the help

what exactly did you do to fix it? step by step for US newbie's even NEWER then you aka. wit no clue...

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yo man take your sample loop and put it in acid and set acid to whatever tempo you want...then render the sample again but this time around it will be the tempo of your preference...throw it back on the mpc using usb and ure golden!

I dont know if that works, I did just what the other dude said, I adjusted the tempo...
I recorded the sample, trimmed/edited it, assigned it to one of my pads, kept it as a one shot, then I put the closest bar # on, from there I kept adjusting the tempo until it fit in. It works to help fit things in there, I am not sure if I'm doing it a backwards way though.

Yo kut thats what I do I love using Acid. Another thing that works great when using Acid w/ the MPC is the chopper feature. Man you can take one sample chop out as many pieces of a sample and render them straight to your cf card, pop the card into your mpc and your ready to go beatmatched and all.

i dont use the loop feature, i set the pad to mono and and use the step editor to put in the pads as if it were looping
i find it easier for layering.

^i do the same. some times i dont even bother trim the end off the loop. i just put it to cut its self (aka mono in program perameters) then i play the sample and tap in the bpm. i set the t.c. to 1/8 and then record it for how ever many bars (i usally just defalt to 8 bars to allow for a good amont of bars to drum pattern over) I then fine tune the bpm (cause the taping is usually a little off)

I dont know how to use that tap button, that thing confuses me...I've tried that way, putting the pad in mono but it didn't really work that well for me, I probably just am doing something wrong with it. The tempo suggestion up top works, only thing is sometimes I'm stuck with real short clips that loop over and it's hard to map out a drum pattern for them. If anyone know's an easier way my ears are open....Peace

The tap button is also really good for hi hats. Instead of pressing on the pads repeatly till the fact that your fingers get tired, while your recording, you hold the TAP button then press on the pad then it would go....

tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee etc

Same applies for any instrument you assign to the pads.

Mcrob wrote:The tap button is also really good for hi hats. Instead of pressing on the pads repeatly till the fact that your fingers get tired, while your recording, you hold the TAP button then press on the pad then it would go....

tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee,tee etc

Same applies for any instrument you assign to the pads.

you must have time correct on for this to work, time correct adjusts how often it will repeat. i.e. 32 = 32 times every bar.

to tap in the tempo you need to be on the main screen. then tap the button on beat like how your foot would naturaly tap. For a basic 4/4 beat you would be tapping 2 times per bar. I put the tap setting in mode/other to the average of four taps. It seems to be more acurate to average out the most amount of taps. It's hard to get it right on if your trying to match the bpm of a loop but once again thats what the jog wheel of steel is for

the bestway to understand this is to go read up on what BPM, TEMPO, Bars, 1/4 1/8, 16's .. Timestretching , etc is. until you know what these things are you will be always baffed to why your stuff dont loop right.

sample a small snippet of silence and insert that at the end of the loop, the mpc will autocut 30ms to prevent clipping. hence the gap your hearing in between loops. some audio editors on pc will put an extra gap in the end like recycle. i always chop. heaps easier to change tempos and keep all your shit together. even if its only in 2 or 4 peices.