How do you chop up your samples?

Is that the way you guys chop samples in the MPC? By messing with the start and end positions? There is no way to just listen to the audio and hit a button to set the start and end parts is there? I don't think there is because I have been searching through the manual for a different way to no avail. Anyway, I think that with the MPC 60 and 3000 you can do it this way.

do you not have os 2.1?

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Maybe you could sample smaller parts at a time, then just work with those piece by piece. A lot of people do it that way, so you don't have one huge file to look at while chopping.

Recyle is the sh!t. With all the time you save, you can make more and hotter beats. Peak audio works well too. Chopping on the 1000 is a f@cking waste of time.

For me, Recycle alone is too it and miss. If you use Recycle well, you're going to have to spend time doing the chop points properly anyway.

If you do it by hand using EXTRACT in the MPC it's gonna be better chops.
CHOP function is good to save a bit of time but you still need to get the chops right by ear.

The more you chop the easier, faster and better it gets.
Your fingers must learn to move like lightning my son.

There is no magic quick fix.
If you don't put the time in, your chops will be sloppy,
whatever method you use.

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Chopping on the 1000 is a f@cking waste of time.

haha dude just get to know it better. there was a time when we couldn't chop besides extract once - the slice feature kills it.

with all due respect i think the dude is comparing the auto slice function on the mpc with the auto slice function of Recycle. the auto slice on the mpc needs to have the sample pre-chopped well for it to work.

my cuts are made on protools, ocasionally on the 1k.

it'd definitely be nice to have transients like in recycle, but it's rare to have a sample so dense that i absolutely need recycle. or a really long sample that i want broken down, i'd use it then, too.

man this talk brings me back to when the mpc1000 was simply a sequencer with some bells and whistles

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it's crazy how far the little tyke's gone! so glad i invested in a child trust fund. they grow up so fast.

I use both recycle and my mpc. The good thing about using recycle is that you have those files to use with software apps. So sometimes i'll just record directly into my mpc, chop it up. If it's something i want on my computer, i will record it to my computer, chop out a loop. Save it. Then chop it in recycle, save the rex file and then load it to my memory card. That way i have things arcived and i'm able to use them off my mpc. When i chop i recycle i do it manually anyway so there is really no difference.

very good point, i like having a rex file of that stuff for later, particularly melody samples

it depends on the sample cause sometimes I can make a beat sound tight by just cutting into bars, and I'll do that inside the MPC. However if the tempo varies too much I'll cut it into beats, which I can do in protools very quickly. I love the fact that you can easily transfer files from your computer to the 1000 cause I can edit very quickly in protools. I think any kind of editing you do with the Q link faders and the Non-Jog wheel will be painfully inferior to the kind of editing you can do on a computer. Even if you get good at doing it on a 1000 it'll still take you too long.