Could some one please put up a totorial of how to chop samples in sequence like say a kanye west or 9th wonder,help would really be much appreciated im still new to beat making. Thankz

I'm still "new" myself.. but really since I started all I have used are samples.

I was just feeling like making a random thread about this jus cause I'm in the writing mood. I'm actually working on a beat now so should be focusing..but yeah I was gonna talk about exactly what ure asking about, chopping samples. U can "chop" any sound out there, that's a sample... just because it does not have the oahns and moans like Kanye and 9th Wonder does not mean it's not a sample.... Basically u need a program to chop them, some used to say Cool Edit not sure how many still use that one. Soundforge... personally I dont think all that is necessary, I used to use Audacity it's free. Once I learned the joys of Edison I don't think I will ever want to use anything else to chop samples with.

I'm not really gonna sit and write a whole tut about it. The main things I guess that I've you can say, been told.. is when u chop a sample try to cut it at zero crossing points. For practice take a bar from a song u like and cut it up. I usually cut on every snare and kick but there are some exceptions. Zero crossing point is basically the point in the song where no noise passes. Every beat in a song has a zero crossing point... that's why Edison 2 is perfect because it shows u the zero crossing points when u zoom in.

Next is arrangement, this is the area I'm still working on....for now the best I do is cut everything up how I want it then play the cuts back in different order using FPC.... That's one way to arrange a sample, u just cut it up and play it back how u want it. I use FPC because I have an MPD16.

Most cats like Kanye and 9th chop up different parts of the song... similar to playing it back in FPC I guess, only instead of playing the sample back they kind of build it in an audio clip channel. Like this dude here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2HZcB2VcIw

Hope this stuff helps. Good Luck!

i use edison to cut the part out of a song that i want to use.... bring that to the sequencer to stretch it

bring that to slicex and chop it up and arrange it however u want

I Think there was a tutorial about re-arranging and chopping samples. Not sure though.. You should check out the tutorial section..

wat up Doctor J!, Thanks alot for the explanation bro what you said was really helpful, I guess to get a sound like those kinda producers i would have to start off maybe buying an MPC 1000, i dunno wat do you think?

Wat up Mr. Late!,  Thanks alot for your explanation bro im gona try and use the method you explained, ive decided makin hop hop beats is what i wanna  do or even Rnb for that matter,Its jus fustrating when you can hear the beat and sample in your head but cant get it out,i need to practice on that, I want to start buying equiptment, what do u think i want to get an MPC 1000 to start with?

Thanks for the feedback bro,im gonna have a look and see if i can find anything on the tutorial section

^ Dude don't do this.. Plz edit your post instead of making a new one..

kthnxbye.. .

nah you don't need an mpc... here's what you do...

open up slicex and click the arrow on the top left and look for presets>sustaining... choose this so when you press one of your chops it will play all the way through instead of having to hold it down

then take a 2-4 bar loop (that you have already stretched and saved at the tempo you want) and drag it into slicex

then you can chop it however you want, but a good idea for a beginner is just to chop on every beat

set the "cut" on each marker to 1 so they will cut each other off

then the qwerty keys on your keyboard will basically function just like an mpc...


i like to set up a simple kick snare pattern while i play around in slicex to try and find a good pattern for the sample, then i lay it out in the piano roll and start constructing the beat....

You can learn how to chop, but do u think that if being able to chop like kanye or 9th wounder could all be explained in a tutorial that they would be were they are ? haha

I think theyr are several on YouTube, just type in e.g ''choppin samples in FL'' etc etc etc

There are tutorials on this but it to me is a feeling type of thing how are you feeling about the track you are sampling are you just sampling it because it was done before or did you here something iin the track that stood out a lot of feeling goes into super sampled tracks and you can feel it when you list just check the kid J DILLA rip...