Does anyone not chop in their MPC? If so, how do you chop?

not to start an argument or anything but i think the ES-1 mkII is also a nice alternative to the 505...im certain their in the same price range too.

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the sequencer in the es-1 is really good too

sleezy wrote:my tip save $200 cop a sp 505..its has a auto chop function an automatically assigns them to 12 pads...thats what i use...

A auto chop function? And what do you mean with that, the system adjust automaticaly the start and end point of samples?

^^yup..theres a chop function button..you jus have to adjust the time..but its easy as hell to use

sleezy wrote:^^yup..theres a chop function button..you jus have to adjust the time..but its easy as hell to use

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Okay thats dope, but the 3.06 OS voor the mpc, what are the new functions then voor chopping?

The chop shop function in the 2500 is the sh*t. Saves hella time. Its basically the same thing as an auto chop function except its right there in the mpc. You can adjust threshold and sensitivity too. Audacity is alright it just took me too long, guess I'm more of hardware type a dude.

But is there a autochop function for the mpc 1000?
Can someone please explain the meaning of ''autochop'' i'm a little bit confused Does autochop means that you dont have to adjust the start and end point of a sample, and the mpc 1000 does this automatically? So you basically have to press a button and the samples will be automatically correct sliced, i'm i correct?

yeah thats basically correct, IMO its faster than Zone edit, sorry don't know too much about the features of the 1000. just makes it easier to move to the next level of sampling, of course you can still manually adjust start/end points within each chop.

Cazillac wrote:yeah thats basically correct, IMO its faster than Zone edit, sorry don't know too much about the features of the 1000. just makes it easier to move to the next level of sampling, of course you can still manually adjust start/end points within each chop.

okay thanx voor replying But you dont know if the mpc 1000 got that function?

not sure if the 1000 got it, to find out go to the trim screen and if there's a chop tab in the lower right hand corner next to edit the edit tab then you got it.

I normally don't chop. I just keep spinning the record back and sampling a second here, two seconds there, until I got what I want. Then all i gotta do is truncate.

I usually just chop 1-bar loops into 16 parts and shuffle them around. Anything fancier than that usually hurts my brain.

I used Sound Forge yesterday to try and auto chop, and I had to save and assign each sample/pad one by one.

I use the free JJ OS (3.06) and when you go to trim->slice in the mpc there is an 'auto' button which not only does that, but also lets you use the up/down arrows to toggle the threshold for what regions to slice. Once the auto gets it about right, I go through the slices piece by piece and hold down the "PLAY LOOP" button to make sure each hit is in its right place, then the MPC generates a program with all the samples automatically named, numbered and in pads. I can't think of any easier way to chop up samples.

Of course, another good way is to take a 4/4 loop, perfectly cropped, and just divide it into 4 or 8 even regions, and mix and match..

how do you auto chop in sound forge?

Go to Tools -> Auto Region. Auto Chop right thurr.

After that I double clicked anywhere inside each respective region, hit spacebar to make sure it sounded alright, and then hit Cntrl/Cmd+C to copy that zone, and then Ctrl/Cmd+E to paste it into a new file. Save.




<-- Still prefer MPC choppin. But that's how I did it.

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