hows it goin people, new to the forum and been messin with the 303 for the last few months. if i use loops in a beat tho, naturally the loop wont fit into the exactness of the pattern seqencer and sounds kinda choppy sometimes. recently ive started resapling myself playing the pattern of my loops, then resampling that and adding another layer of sounds (drums, bass, whatever) and do that over and over basically making patterns in a sample bank. i'm just wondering if anyone else has tried this method and what they think, just curious.

many SP users do it and i think it's the way to go with these samplers. it also kinda deals with the polyphony problems (you just resample your two layers into one and you have one voice instead of two).
happy sampling and welcome to the forums!

Yup, its the way to go!

Make sure to always keep a copy of a previous step before you combine 2 layers into one though.. (or a claen copy of the beat without anything over the top)

Do you guys know if/how this works on the SP505? I do this on the 555 but have not figured it out on the 505 yet.

@blavatsky: i do it on 505. there are many ways to do it, one of them is as is described by bukets: resampling your loops/chops, then resampling the same with drums, then with bass, then with blirp-wah-bawahwahwah-click until you're happy. i usually resample shorter loops, like 2 to 8 bars, put them in the ptn sequencer and adjust the bpm as precisely as possible. knowing the bpm is also good cause you can use a metronome (from your computer, or whatever) and resample another track and then mix up to four tracks if you use only stereo. the only thing that sucks on 505 is that you can not use the metronome nor other sample as reference for resampling (that might suck on other SPs too, i don't know that actually), but using some other source for that is not that big of a deal.

Its the way i do it as well. I used to use the pattern sequencer but like you said my drum loops kinda sounded awkward or it was hard to get them to sound tight without doing the "air trick".

Also doing it the resample method is faster for me personally. Its a lot smoother and quicker to get my ideas out when i have them.

@Heat Vision: what's an "air trick"?:)

resample a sound once it is marked up, and play it twice, leaving a few seconds of blank sound between the two hits, then mark the new pad for the second hit, and you can add the blank sound back in with the start point, so if you sequenced it, you could move it forward a hair at a time by moving back the start point

taken from this thread

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