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you can get creative with post tuning eq, but otherwise there's little you can do. i have no secret technique, unfortunately.

however, when i'm sampling from records, i do multisample - but not the same hits of the same note. i just get a range of notes within a certain keysig and chop those up. then i rearrange using the same keysig (unless i pitch everything down or up) and same notes, but in a drastically different order. this is a kind of multisampling as well, since i'm not using the same sample and pitchign it for my melody.

also - i'm sure spirez can tear up autochromatic, and if i heard it in his beats i'd dig it. my earlier stance was one half joke, but personally i don't like the sound of it in my own music.

another important point to understand that it's all about reference. if you pitch 1 file and have others sampled from the same source nonpitched, the result will be mad obvious. however, if you pitch em all +, that's simply what the listener hears as the room noise. there's no problem with that.

Antonym wrote:... when i'm sampling from records, i do multisample - but not the same hits of the same note. i just get a range of notes within a certain keysig and chop those up. then i rearrange using the same keysig (unless i pitch everything down or up) and same notes, but in a drastically different order. this is a kind of multisampling as well, since i'm not using the same sample and pitchign it for my melody.

Yeah, I do that too, but I'd just call it chopping. But sometimes there's this amazing sound on a rekkid, but it's there only once.

Damn...I was kinda hoping you had the solution to the one thing that irritates me about sampling. Oh well, back to creative thinking...

Just a small tip i came across yesterday.
If you use vst or sound module with your mpc. just load on a normal drum track a blank_melodic program and use that to trigger midi notes from your vst/soundmodule...you have got instant cromatic and the velocity for bass note is nicer than a normal midi keyboard one...
i am using it for basslines and synths...wicked!

here's a nice trick for filling up some of those empty-spaces-in-your-beat-and-you-dont-know-how-to-cover-it-up

when you chopped up your samples and making a melody it's always cool to re-assing some of the already assigned samples on another pad and tune it with +12 or -12.. you get the assigned sound an octave higher or lower, then you adjust the volume for this sound and try adding it in your beat(also try tomess around with the frequency filters) ! awesome stuff