important chopping question

hi i just wonder how I could chop a sample into sixteen pieces properly. i have spent too many hours doing it without a better effect. You know there is rather no problem when you have a sample which has already a clear percussion you know hi hats snares and drums so you can see the actual waves and you know where to start your chops then in the chopping menu. The problem starts when i want to chop something that doesn't have all the hi hats and drums so clear so i don't know where to start some of the chops...in the end when i somehow have the whole sample chopped, i play it and i can hear that it's not done correctly because you can hear either little silent moments in the end of some of the pieces, or if there are no silent moments it seems that the sample is not played fluently. i always try to speed up the tempo then but it seems that the sample is still not played fluently as some of the chops should be longer ... Please help cause actually i don't have an idea what to do..maybe it's because of my bad habits from the fl studio- i've always chopped my sample in sony acid into sixteen and then loaded all the 16 chops into fl as separate samples...sometimes it was correct and sometimes not and then i didn't know how to do it properly so usually I didn't finish the beat . It may sound fuunny but i just couldn't do it in the fl's slicer...I'm sure that i'm doing something wrong but i don't know what actually, also when i speed up the sample i always do it by changing it's tune, maybe that's the problem...i'm looking forward to any advice , i'll try everything, as this is the basic thing one should know how to do on the mpc(i believe so) PEACE!!!

i'm no expert on chopping, but maybe add some RELEASE to the end of your samples if there is some silence at the end of them.

purpledrank wrote:hi i just wonder how I could chop a sample into sixteen pieces properly. i have spent too many hours doing it without a better effect. You know there is rather no problem when you have a sample which has already a clear percussion you know hi hats snares and drums so you can see the actual waves and you know where to start your chops then in the chopping menu. The problem starts when i want to chop something that doesn't have all the hi hats and drums so clear so i don't know where to start some of the chops...in the end when i somehow have the whole sample chopped, i play it and i can hear that it's not done correctly because you can hear either little silent moments in the end of some of the pieces, or if there are no silent moments it seems that the sample is not played fluently. i always try to speed up the tempo then but it seems that the sample is still not played fluently as some of the chops should be longer ... Please help cause actually i don't have an idea what to do..maybe it's because of my bad habits from the fl studio- i've always chopped my sample in sony acid into sixteen and then loaded all the 16 chops into fl as separate samples...sometimes it was correct and sometimes not and then i didn't know how to do it properly so usually I didn't finish the beat . It may sound fuunny but i just couldn't do it in the fl's slicer...I'm sure that i'm doing something wrong but i don't know what actually, also when i speed up the sample i always do it by changing it's tune, maybe that's the problem...i'm looking forward to any advice , i'll try everything, as this is the basic thing one should know how to do on the mpc(i believe so) PEACE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqjFXW9L ... annel_page

Watch the vid. But don't rely on this forever, because chopping in 16 is restrictive and uncreative. Try other ways of chopping once you got this down.

You need to know how to chop different ways and even put chops on beat with no drums....
To do that try to learn what wave forms look like. For is instance I can look at wave form without hearing the song and tell you pause, breaks, snares, kicks, bass solos, horns, where the vocals drop in over the beat, etc...

Good luck!