So in theory, you could keep selecting different sections within your break and creating new samples from it. So how do we go about chopping a break? Looking back at 012 ‘Editing samples Part 2’, we came across the ‘Section New Sound’ function in the Sample Edit screen – this provides us with one method of chopping a break – this function allows us to select a section of a break and turn just this section into a completely new sample. There are lots of other reasons for chopping up breaks – for a start, it’s a lot of fun and it can be a challenge to transform something quite familiar into something that sounds completely different. Perhaps your break contains some nasty pops and scratches that you would like to remove, or maybe you just want to make a boring old 2 bar loop a little more interesting. We may also wish to perform special tricks to the break or we may simply wish to extract a particular drum sound from the break to use in one of our own beats.
Why do we want to chop a break? Well, normally it’s because we wish to use the drum sounds within the break and generally keep the same atmosphere and production associated with the break, but we need the break to either ‘fit’ into an existing sequence or we would like to change the groove or note order of the break. We can also get rid of vinyl pops and crackle by selecting only certain elements of a beat – and finally we can create some interesting special effects. By chopping up a break beat loop, we can create something unique, something that can change throughout the track. Looping a drum beat is fun, but using that same 2 bar loop within your whole track can be pretty boring. Once chopped, we’ll recreate the break with our new chop program and an MPC sequence, and finally we’ll use the zone function to create a cool stuttered break. Here we will go through the process of chopping up a break in the MPC2000XL ‘zone’ page.
This MPC2000XL chopping tutorial is adapted from my comprehensive MPC2000XL tutorial book, Beat Making on the MPC2000XL.
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