str8lifted wrote:yea i know where the chopping is explained in the manual. and chopping while recording, or chopping an already recorded longer sample would be useful because i could assign the pads and chop the sample exactly on the right time i hear it & feel it simply by pushing the pad on beat of where i would want the different parts to go. instead of going back to the sample and chopping it equally and listening over and over to see if i like where it is chopped, i could chop it by feel and hit it the first few times i tried it, give it more of a human feel.. i dunno, it looked like i saw pete rock doin it on this one thing i was watchin from him, and i was molecularly fusing some elements into this bomb ass beat and thought how it would save me time and might even come out completely different if i could chop em that way. but whatever, maybe they should come up with that one, update the software, cuz i think it'd be dope. but i just make beats, i dont program mpcs.
do you realize that if there was a button to chop a sample while it was recording, you'd have to make sure you hit it at exactly the right time every time?
you're still going to have to go into the trim screen and adjust the start and end points, because 99.99999% of the time, you're not going to get it chopped exactly the way you wanted it unless you have ridiculous hand timing and can compensate for latency from the mpc not starting/stopping a chop at the same split second you hit the pad.
plus, if you hit it too late, the second chop's start time would be late, and you wouldn't have any legroom to adjust it's start point. likewise, if you hit it too early, the first chop would be missing it's end and you wouldn't be able to fix it's end point. you'd have to re-record it.
it just doesn't seem like a useful function to add.
