Sample and Chop with or without MPC

Hey...

Just curious to how other people sample.

I do mine both ways...Sometimes I sample and chop right on my MPC and sometimes I do it all on ReCycle.

How do you all do it?

Peace

all mpc. recycle is agonizingly slow.

when cutting a sound, if you don't cut at the zero point, you get a little pop. it's almost impossible to zone in on the zero point with the mpc500 cause you have to cut by ear. the only way to get a clean cut is by chance.

if any of you have an opportunity to use sound forge. i highly recommend it..

sound forge is nice. unfortunately slicing in software is a pain to me because of the import/exporing...i find it disruptive.

i've come to believe that cutting at zero is overrated, especially when you can attack defaults to 3 in jjos2. i would rather spend less time worrying about exact zero crosspoints when slicing and just set the attack to 1. non-zero crosspoint slices are not heard in my end result, so i stopped worrying about it about a year ago now.

I personally prefer to sample snippets as opposed to sampling a longer sample and chopping. Its a more creative and faster way to do it for me. But when I do chop, I will do it on the machine (1k or ASR-X - whichever one I'm in the mood to sample on...) as opposed to in the computer.

Sampling and sample editing in the computer just drains all my creative juices.

i'm with you on that mp3. though i'd rather edit larger chunks on the computer, ie MACROSAMPLES
but microsamples? mpc every time.
also agreed that working with tiny tiny snippets of audio is better every time than larger chunks. so much more control

Nym wrote:attack defaults to 3 in jjos2.

just my 2 cents, but I see no good reason for this. Its the first thing I change whenever I build a program... Its a bit annoying, IMO.

^ me too. i'd rather apply it by option when needed rather than remove it every time.
same thing with the GENERAL MIDI note assignment compared to CHROMATIC
same with ONESHOT as opposed to NOTE ON...

the way i see the attack thing is the unfortunate truth of inexperienced users: an automatic attack removes the click automatically. in the old akai os, slicing AUTOMATICALLY DESTRUCTIVELY APPLIED a fade in/out when slicing samples - this SUCKED. jj removed that and instead popped in the automatic attack. if both of these were gone, imagine what we'd hear:

"LOL whi do all my samples click they dint do this on AKAI os it must bee a bug i'm going back"

LOL we're not clownin newbies are we... LOL!

you do know i am not a mod, right?

Nym wrote:in the old akai os, slicing AUTOMATICALLY DESTRUCTIVELY APPLIED a fade in/out when slicing samples - this SUCKED.

im on the 2000xl, if i apply zone chop into 16parts, how can i avoid this problem?

rich biatch: i have no idea.
donlong: i have no idea.

(never owned a 2000xl, sorry)

Nym wrote:rich biatch: i have no idea.
donlong: i have no idea.

(never owned a 2000xl, sorry)

cool. i'll work around it so many have before me!

the only chopping i do outside of the mpc.

on the XL open window on the chop count, can change it from 16 there, also changing the release will stop the mpc auto truncating the slices.