hello guys, i know there is no specific way to sample music in no way shape or form. however, after a few months of making sample beats. I am strictly sample base so i want to master this domain first. the problem is, i don't know if i'm approaching my beats the right way. right now i sample 8 measures aka 8 bars then i cut them equally into 16 parts as you would a mpc if i'm correct. i also attain the bpm of the song before anything and for some reason nothing is coming out like i want it, i might need to grab a keyboard? how do professionals usually sample? 4,6 or 8 bars. am i'm i doing this right or nah?
thanks
i start in a similar vein to you.
But my 16 chops are very rarely equal in length.
I use Maschine and never had an MPC so not really sure (despite descriptions of "that MPC workflow" that rarely if ever concisely describe it) on workflow differences.
i usually start with a 4/8 bar loop on pad 1 in group A that I truncate as tightly as I can (so that if it loops it actually loops).
Then I go into the slice function, chop it up (again... Rarely equally... and have it spread out across the 16 pads in Group A. (I might sometimes only spread across the first 8 pads, but that's irrelevant.)
i might also also take a second sample. 1st pad of group B - and I might just take 1 bar (truncated to loop if need be)
then I might take a third 1-bar sample from a totally different record and put it on pad 2 but also in group B...
Because of how Maschine works (no global choke) this might not be (it might tho) working for me...
In this instance I'll go back to the chops on group-A and ask myself if I'm 'really' gonna use all 16 of them... And I rarely do... I'll delete any chops I'm definitely not gonna use and replace them withe the 2 samples from Group-B... Now they can be assigned to the same choke as the first sample's chops...
i guess im just saying "mess about" see what and how your particular setup will let you work. Find workarounds.
Keep it up bruv!