chopping polyphony trick

5_ELEMENT_NINJA · Post by **5_ELEMENT_NINJA** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:34 am

peace all,
Heres a little trick i discovered tonight.Please forgive me if i dont explain it to well but here it goes.Lets say you take a sample and you chop it up into 7 pieces.now get some drums and lay a basic pattern on your sequence. Now record how you want your 7 chops played in your sequence.So now you have kick,snare,hihat,and your seven chops you got 10 voices and only 2 left cuz of the 12 note polyphony(assuming that all your samples are in mono)
So the obvious thing to do is to resample yourself playin your chops,which im shure you all know about!but if u dont have another drum machine or metrenome its hard to get the exact timing down, when you are resampling.

Heres where my trick comes in handy.resample yourself playin the chops how you played them in your sequence to the best of your ability.Now go back to the pattern sequnce but before you do that turn the volume(start/end/volume button)down on all your 7 chops.Now play your resampled pad and listen to see if its in time but also watch the 7 chop pads light up!this way u can see if all your chops of your resampled chop is hittin in time!I dont know if im makin sense but what yuor doin is listening and wachin at the same time to see if shit matches up!
It might be crazy but try it out for your selfpeace!

balazs · Post by **balazs** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:02 am

cool, but i dont think i have the patience for something like this. maby if i use this shit on the road and its the only option.

i never really paid attention to the lighted pads, its ill that u thought to use it as a tool. Maby it could spark some more ideas. props.

pt3r · Post by **pt3r** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:01 am

Another way that goes a little easier is to do the track mute trick on the 7 chops instead of changing each chop's volume.

Dj Frantic · Post by **Dj Frantic** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:36 pm

thats good thinking. I have never run out of polyphony...im used to having 8 so 12 seems like so much to me lol. But, if I do run into that problem I know what to do now

Olby · Post by **Olby** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:50 pm

I run out of the 12 voice polyphony zone only once when I was breaking some hard percussions shit using lots of small percussion samples at the same time. By the way using 7 chops wont use all your polyphony at the same time because usually you chop up sample and play them in sequence so that you can hear only 2 chops playing at the same time for short period. but thats nice to see another trick for 404. thanks.