How to build Drum Kits from records????

Sup all, I've had my 2kxl for a year and I have not figured out if it is possible build kits from my vinyl. I've spent years collecting my records for their various recorded quality. Right now I am bored with the machine because I can only loop phrases off of records. That gets boring real fast. Can I lift kicks, snares, instrument notes etc. from the records even if for instance the kick is not just happening by itself in the music??? I would rather not buy disks of sounds that everyone else has. Thanks for your time!

listen, sample, chop, save, edit, rename, repeat.

Or get creative with a boxcutter, some pliers, duck tape and your stash of vinyl, perhaps you can build a very cool drum kit. Who knows.

pt3r wrote:Or get creative with a boxcutter, some pliers, duck tape and your stash of vinyl, perhaps you can build a very cool drum kit. Who knows.

Thanks for the response dgny at least I got one serious response and a bad joke that people thought was funny! :0) Could you be more specific. I know that that is the purpose of the machine however, I'm not having any luck. Can you be a little more specific. In a polyphonic moment in the music, can I isolate one frequency and chop out all the rest? ( snare, kick, etc.)

Ok I admit it was a lame joke. Now back on topic. The sampler in your mpc can really only do that, sample. So If you want for example a clean drum hit then you will have to sample a clean drumhit. You can always filter out unwanted frequencies to some extent but there is no sure way to isolate a specific sound in a 'layered sample'. It all boils down to digging in your crates hunting down that sound that does it for you.

you need to look for open drum hits w/ no music or sound efx underneath them. sample the individual hits & replay them as your own. its really as simple as that & thats why they're clowing

Thanks all! I thought the machine could do more than that as far as editing

pt3r wrote:Or get creative with a boxcutter, some pliers, duck tape and your stash of vinyl, perhaps you can build a very cool drum kit. Who knows.

bad joke..but still funny.

its not even that funny, i have actually seen a group of turntablist that dont even use vinyl, but strategicly place bits of tape and other weird objects/things onto the record plater to create sounds which they make into beats. It isnt that hard to isolate a certain drum hit or instrument note, you just gotta look out for them. just keep your head down and keep digging.

lowbudget wrote:you need to look for open drum hits w/ no music or sound efx underneath them. sample the individual hits & replay them as your own. its really as simple as that & thats why they're clowing

there is no way to do what you said it is impossible. the only thing you can do is use lots of EQ to filter out frequencies you dont want to hear.

Yo, your samples dont always have to be clean either. Some of the best best kicks to me are ones with something in it. It could be the tail end of a horn, or a bass that drops at the same time as the kick. Those sounds can have alot of texture to your music.

J Sound wrote:

lowbudget wrote:you need to look for open drum hits w/ no music or sound efx underneath them. sample the individual hits & replay them as your own. its really as simple as that & thats why they're clowing

there is no way to do what you said it is impossible. the only thing you can do is use lots of EQ to filter out frequencies you dont want to hear.

how is it impossible?

lowbudget wrote:

J Sound wrote:

lowbudget wrote:you need to look for open drum hits w/ no music or sound efx underneath them. sample the individual hits & replay them as your own. its really as simple as that & thats why they're clowing

there is no way to do what you said it is impossible. the only thing you can do is use lots of EQ to filter out frequencies you dont want to hear.

how is it impossible?

Yeah - what you talking about? I do that all the time...
Edit: on second thought maybe the dude quoted the wrong person