Showing how to do it on multiple different daws and machines is awesome nice work. It’s important that the newer gen sees that the tools don’t matter .
Never knew I can timestretch on MPC live and change the tempo efficiently like that! I've been doing random math changing the semitone til now. Thank you!
You can actually chop , stretch and pitch with stock FL plug-ins . There are several ways to achieve this . For me though , I prefer analog / hands on a piece of gear as opposed to clicking a mouse or typing keyboard but it can be done .
4:06 You're not using JJ OS, that's why you might be missing some options. But JJ OS gives you all of these options and more. Your MPC will get another life with the JJ OS, trust me bro.
Also really easy in FL, just align it to the grid and do manual chops. Done manual chops a grip of times. Not as intuitive as with using a actual groovebox but eh is good enough. People have even recreated JDillas songs in Audacity lmao. If theres a will theres a way
Yo Ave, this is NICE bro!!! I love videos like this, digging deeper into classic producers/beat makers, and what makes them unique. Great job bro!🙏🏾✊🏾💚
Reminds me how terrible and frustrating the stock OS on this unit was :-D These units were soooooo limited without jjos. I have doubta on the 32 slices technique though - if you check his video, some of the chops are much longer so I don’t think he blindly chopped to 32 regions…
You can adjust the endpoints after chopping if you set your new program to pad parameters therefore u can have as king of a slice as u want still using that technique
Yeah, I couldn't believe the things they didn't update from the 2000XL I was used to. Having to jump through every pad to change the pitch instead of the whole program. Thankfully JJOS added so many little things like that which makes it much more comfortable to use.
You can press SHIFT and change the tune in all of them all together. I think the JJ OS also has time stretch. I would have to take my 2500 to confirm which function that was.
Great great video Ave!! This is why when I find my own samples, I create perfect loops out of them!! For this very reason! Once done everything falls into place! That's why overall I think my style leans into cinematic!! It's similar to the jazzy loop the Alchemist flipped! You broke it down on different versions of gear to flip it on too!! Nice bruh!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
Excellent ... I nice practical breakdown for people like myself who might have been intermediated by this type of equipment.. Still in Logic for now but I definitely see the benefits and the quality of sound.
Salute Ave. This was a good video for people trying to understand how the sample chop game works. A good friend of mind in 1996 figured out how DJ Premier, chopped the original song for Jeru The Damaja song Ya Playin Yaself. It took him 2 days to figure it out. You know what equipment he was using to do it? The gemini sampler and Tascam 4 track. This is before I got my MPC 3000. He got that shit down perfectly how Preemo did it. Like you said, you have to have an ear for music. It took me a good while before I became nice at chopping samples. Learning that the original instrument players never played rigid. Anyway good video as always. Keep teaching brother. ✌🏾
This was fire bro please keep them coming. Can you please do a master class for all the MPC 's like the 500 to newest one in 2023😅😊❤ and the ones with JJOSXL.
i got love for you bro but. im not feeling the way you say "and then the alchemist would do this". theres actually many different ways to chop on the 2500, we dont know exactly how he does it so we shouldnt act like we know his exact process its miselading to the viewers. honestly id think he doesnt use the chop feauture, he probably chops manually. but thats just my opinion
i second this comment. it isn’t confirmed what he would or wouldn’t do, and especially not something specific like how he chops, using bros example. much love, ave.
they are basically the same units. anything you can do with a 2500, you can also do with a 1000. same OS, only difference is in the nr of ins/outs and q link sliders
I’m short.. Alc basically played the drums chops and everything that came with it. That gives it the off-balance-ness that makes it kick. Using time stretch to fill in the “Air”.
Am I trippin, can you do the same thing is fl slicer or slice x that he did I'm ableton? Especially with a perfectly looped sample with bpm? I could do that in 10 seconds lol wtf
You’re definitely Trippin. Fruity, slicer or slice X doesn’t have shopping in increments. We did our first matter fact, it has the exact opposite. It has low, medium and high. That’s not like the MPC, or abelton live at all. The problem with image line is they weren’t musicians when they develop FL studio. Matter fact, they were the exact opposite they were gamers. Which explains their poor musical terminology. Which has effected their user base.
@Ave Mcree sir this is incorrect, with all due respect. If you know the tempo you can slice to beat at increments of 16 and 32 , I've used that feature many times. Set the tempo, set the number of beats then click slice button and you can do to beat, 1/4 up to 1/6 of the beat... thats essentially the exact same thing.
A more advanced technique is how ALC makes the chops sound less "choppy" if you catch my drift. He has absolutely mastered that. Like you can tell it's chopped but its subtle and almost sounds natural.
Should be easy to do this by just giving the sample a slower attack. Or side-chain comp. Though not only those things alone will make it sound natural but may help
Any advice on filming? The sound I get on the iPhone external mic is garbage. I bought a 1/8 cable to lightning to record sound directly in which is better but not by much. I was going to film and at the same time record everything into pro tools. I noticed the volume on your 2500 knob was almost at zero so I figured you were recording audio into something else. Any advice would be much appreciated. Great video.
Columbia no cut my nimble ninja great video you are very knowledgeable on the gear and the process/procedures. I know a few producer's with very expensive equipment but are not well versed in how it works with other equipment. I like this strategy because if Gaga wants our tracks and loves the way the studio sounds were almost there. If she wants to use sl board's or nothing else and we only know how to use Yamaha and she walks for that. Everyone is fired !
I noticed that some alchemist beats don’t seem bpm locked. Like the beat on Bundy & Sincere. The tempo constantly drifts. It’s a lot harder to make samples sound good when they aren’t perfectly on the grid already like splice loops
Trust anything that’s sampled on the mpc2000xl or 2500 is bpm locked. The loop has to be chopped perfectly every time. Otherwise, it will sound like trash.
@@AveMcree I see what you’re saying. I think what he does though,is have a main loop that’s bpm locked and the intro section might be locked to a different tempo. He’s actually said in interview that he doesn’t care if the intro section is at a different tempo. I think in the case of the song I mentioned, he plays out a long stretch of the sample at a free tempo before it starts looping a section. My other point is that when you chop an old vinyl sample rather than a splice loop, the tempo fluctuates because players weren’t playing to a metronome. So even if you have a perfect bpm synced loop, drum hits and things will be off which makes it difficult to chop right. This isn’t the case with splice loops since they’re quantized pretty perfectly.
hey can you help me with MPC beats software program manipulation please, for some reason whenever i load up a program template and start recording drums , i use those templates which all tracks written in like drums, sythtube, keys and all that , now if i start by laying drums on the drums tracks , when i get to key and other track my keyboard doesn't play piano plugins or any piano sample if it's there on the template program i loaded , instead i find those piano sounds on my akai mpk mini 3 pads and not on the keyboard somehow
Dam , I gotta get me an mpc . What I would do if I had one is track on it while sending my tracking from the daw . I guess it's kinda backwards , but the dam daw takes too long for everything anyway. I know the newer mpc s can link and track via midi . Can older ones keep sync in the daw also .
Isn’t there another way to adjust pitch and keep tempo without doing it with the process menu? So if I wanna rechange the pitch I won’t have to go thru the process menu?
Madlib was one of the first producers to make albums strictly using chops, J Dilla as well and a few years later Black Milk did this on almost all of his albums. If you listen to black milks "so gone" you can really hear the chop.
im not sure if you have jjos but on my mpc 2500 if i press mode and pad 11 it will allow me to pitch all pads up and down as a group at the same time as well as other edits
