How to chop drum breaks with eurorack modular for jungle/dnb (feat erica synths sample drum) 

Yes that is an important step that is not easy to find in the manual, good point. There are a few hidden functions that had me scratching my head at first but once I figured them out I haven’t had to pull out the manual again

Hey. I wonder if you could expand on this alittle please? Awesome video!

This thread is about the importance of the settings for setting the input range for the CV inputs, by holding shift you can change from +-5V, +5V, v/oct, etc by holding shift and turning the knob to tell the sample drum what kind of signal you are sending in to sequence the slices. I personally set it to +5V and use unquantized CV to step through the breaks but this user is mentioning that if you are sending in a v/oct signal, you have to set it to v/oct

Thanks so much! It’s the perfect module for jungle but I haven’t seen enough videos that show it off so I had to make one 😁

Juste what i need too !!! Real work . 🎹🎧🎚️🎛️⏳🎶🔉🔊

I’ve considered that swap to get more channels but you can get so much out of just 2 channels with the sample drum. Although I do have a 1010 blackbox on the side for more sampling

Haha yeah I wish I was Burial! I thought of that when choosing this name, it looks different enough on paper but it sounds so similar when you say it 😅

@@varial303 Ive got a electribe 2 sampler but find my 505 boss looper easier and quicker to do short voice spoken loops like samples could i do it on that shorten the loop ect?

Thanks, yeah I feel like I’ve only just scratched the surface with how much this set up can do

My fav is the Blu Mar Ten Jungle 1989-1999, not royalty free but I feel less bad about using it when I learned that the Mentasm sound was just sampled from the Joey Beltram track back in the day

Good question, I know how to do that with Ableton’s compressor where you can use an eq to make it trigger on certain frequencies (like a de-esser). You could replicate it in modular by multing the breakbeat signal, sending it through a LPF to carve out only the kicks, and then sending that into the sidechain input. In my case I don’t sidechain the bass to the kick (sometimes do it in Ableton after) but I do have an additional kick module that I sidechain to cut out the kicks from the breaks using a disting

Thanks for the love! If you have a computer, a cracked version of Ableton or Renoise and some Ned Rush videos will get you more than most hardware can offer. For less than the price of a good computer I would recommend: old AKAI MPC (2000, 1000), M8 Tracker, 1010 blackbox, Polyend Tracker

Thanks a lot for the support! In this video I’m using a couple samples from the 1010 blackbox but I frequently use the qu bit chord v2 in the modular, I’m planning a video about that soon

@@varial303 the 4ms ensemble has a really nice sound too😉

Yeah that one sounds amazing too

Thanks a lot! Yeah I wanted to focus on the fun workflow in this video but the sample processing is really not too bad. I basically only choose breaks between 140-170 and ideally a perfect 1-4 bar loop. Then I have to convert them to 16 bit for the sample drum but that’s the only processing I do in the computer. Then I just dump them in the sample drum and use the interface to load them up in banks of around 4 different breaks and then slice them all up into even 1/8th note slices by selecting either 8, 16, or 32 slices depending on the bar length. Then you are good to go and can reuse the bank in future tracks, might just have to adjust the pitch and envelope to get it to sound smooth with the tempo you are at

Yup I’ve considered the same but the sample drum is hard to beat for slicing up breakbeats

@@varial303 exactly! The only thing that was bothering me is formatting the Samples, bitbox is really is on that you can put any samplerate audio Stereo but its not as fast as the erica unfortunately

Yeah simplicity is key sometimes, I just love the performance mode where you can see and control both channels at the same time

no good question, i was curious about this before i got the sample drum. yeah you are exactly right important thing in this case to get the tempo to line up is making sure the beat is sliced to the same timing as the triggers you are sending into it. It seems to work best for me to slice the beats into 1/8th notes (8 slices for 1 bar sample, 16 slices for 2 bar) and sending an 1/8th note trigger into the input of the sample drum and the clock of my sequencer (mimetic). this way even if the tempo is faster than the original tempo of the sample, it will just cut off the end of the slice and play the begining of the next slice which doesnt sound bad with drum samples. then you can use the tuning to slow and speed up the sample separately from the tempo of the triggers, and the envelope to shape the volume of each slice, so you can make the fades between them smoother. hope this helps, thanks for the support!

@@varial303 Wow you are amazing and answered my question PERFECTLY! Thank you so much man. :D so sick. Now gotta make some techno :3 lol

Could definitely work, the clocks would be perfect for triggering, could definitely be fun using the LFO and stepped random modes for sequencing the slices but you mind find you want something with per step control after a while

@@varial303 yeah and i have ornament and crime maybe i can use them both for making something more complete

I’m not too familiar with the O&C but yes I think the combo of those two would work great

@@varial303 🫂🫂🫂 thank you for the replies man honestly your stuff is pretty good

That’s a good point, I’ve always found the setup kind of confusing but I’ve seen some people do some cool stuff with breaks using the midi devices. Would be cool if you got it saved as a group of devices so you could just drop new samples into it and get to chopping without much set up

@@varial303 there're some Ned Rush videos on this that are quite useful!

Yes, ned rush is the man

1010 blackbox, playing back samples

Thanks Hagrid 😁