I do the same thing to but finding that perfect loop is what i'm having trouble with, there's always a click or a little popping sound sometimes, I can mask it with drums at times but it doesn't always sound so good.
Also what I tend to do is find my sample, sample 4 bars of it, try and find the bpm and and the perfect start and end point so that the 4 bars loop perfectly. I'll then throw it into contact and time stretch or speed it up etc. but the hard part I think is finding the perfect start and end point to get the sweet spot in the loop. Usually the end if anything that makes it difficult.
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Also, trying to make a leody in my head prior is hard because I play and alter the sample around sometimes to get new sounds.
Usually chopping it up into 16 slices accross
my MAschine works best, that's my way of doing it now.
But I know other people don't always do that, they manually chop pieces they like, and that's what's hardest to me.
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4 bars slices over 16 pads is easier to play back obviosuly.
Chopping up manually is harder because u might have one piece that's just one bar, and then another part that's 4 bars, maybe another 2 bars, how do you get it all to gel afterwards.