freeware beat chopping

Cheers for those points ryan. Yeah it is exactly what this is about, I want to make the JUI feel really natural so that beat chopping can be as quick as possible and the link between the pc and mpc is as seamless as possible. I just massively overestimated the amount of time I have to work on it. When I wrote the program I was staying at my parents house, no job, girlfriend miles away etc. Now I live with her and a kitten and work all day, so its not exactly as easy. I know it sounds like I have been making excuses and putting development off for ages, and to be honest I have to an extent, because there are a lot of things more exciting in my life than fixing bugs in a bit of software.

That said I WILL get around to doing it, I really want this to work, I really want to produce a quality tool, I want to help out everyone who has been asking for features, and I want to finish it to get it off my mind. I really am grateful for all the comments and suggestions, and believe me, they are not going to be wasted.

Cheers
Guy

Oh and the calculate tempo function is 100% accurate. All it does is multiply the number of bars by the duration of the sample over four times the sample rate, so (only works for 4/4 beats so far) if its wrong it means the start and end of your sample arent correct.

I am interested to hear that you need to have chop markers at the start and end, I wouldnt have expected that. I will look into it...

thecatinside wrote:Much appreciated! Good to know people are willing to give hours for something free.

When you get that finished, please move on to a new os for mpc500

hahaha amen to that! I'm sure we'd all be happy to make a donation

guy b you are a legend!

Since I got my pc last week, I will try this beat chopping program as well for the 1k. Has anyone really worked with this already in combination with a mpc1000? Or am I the first true lucky bastard to test this baby to the max? I hear nothing but positive things about this freeware, so I think I won't be disapointed. I'll post my my beat chopping exploring journey on this forum asap.

guyb wrote:

This is my excuse for the lack of attention at the moment!
Apologies
Guy

im on yer em pee cee. bangin out trakz
-LOL cats

This looks really dope! I'm trying to get a 500 just so I can sample drums from my friends houses
(I got some friends with hellafied 45 collections)! This program makes it possible to have all my kits
saved in the computer while still being accessible. Very dope!

i rock with Audacity, but that program being created looks and sounds dope....i've noticed without chop shop im havin to be a lot more creative with stuff and its givin me a new sound....definately lookin forward to that program bein done tho..

BeatButcherMPC is back under active development! I have made time to get back in the groove, so hopefully should be getting to a real release at some stage! I have spent a couple of days sorting out the code base, refactoring, checking it in to a repository for safekeeping etc. so development should be a breeze now!

I have also worked on the website a bit, http://www.beatbutchermpc.com, still a long way to go on that though, please dont use the bug submit form because it doesn't do anything yet!! I have designed a new UI for the program editor. My art skills leave something to be desired but hopefully you can see what I'm aiming for. (I think I need to squish it a bit vertically).

Because of the refactor all old bugs are effectively wiped out, but there will be new ones! I actually found the problem with the calculate function which may have given odd values when not using 44100hz samples. Anyway I apologise for the delays and stuff but hopefully we can get going properly now
Cheers
Guy

Guyb, u a genius! Lamp, where's the Mpc-Forums Hall of Fame, Guyb gets my vote!

guyb, that looks great. can't wait to for an mpc1000 version.
you might consider replacing the "akai professional" icon below the slider to something of your own invention

Oh wow!

It reminds me of graphics from the Amiga! LOL!

Über Cool!

Quick update, spend yesterday and today doing more code cleaning, and then I gutted all of the audio engine code and replaced it with something much more efficient. The program should be less temperemental, use less memory and CPU and run more smoothly. Found a lot of bugs in the audio processing functions which I have fixed, but not tested yet. I still have a long way to go before another test release though, since I have broken a heck of a lot of things to improve things. (one step forward two back!)
Guy

dammmmmnnnn man! that looks incredible - def. cant wait to get my hands on that! keep up the good work GUYB!!! YOU DA MAN!

Just getting round to finishing the batch editor which means you can set pad parameters on any of the pads in one go. Also I've been finding the program interface a little clunky for some things, mainly viewing programs, so I wrote a little tech-demo of another way of displaying program information. What are peoples thoughts on this screen shot? I will likely include this as a separate window to the rest of BeatButcherMPC rather than an alternative to the current panel, but i'm not sure.

Its not obvious but when you double click a pad number (column 1) the 4 zones within it toggle between hidden/un-hidden) to help reduce the amount of displayed data. You can edit all data by clicking in the cells, but there will also be a batch or column edit function...