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[Girru]

MIIT: your production is always clean and crisp! Could you share a few tips as to how you process the samples?

First I sample everything into the MS-1 so everything can be pitched up and down as required, then into the 303. I'll sometimes use MFX13 EQ on the way into the 303.

I don't often resample with effects. Sometimes a bit of reverb, sometimes delay - both mostly to extend or smooth out sudden chop ends, coz neither effect is all that on the 303.

If I use time stretch on a non-drums sample, obvs it ends up with a load of click-shit over it straight away, so I have to try and hide that with a couple of passes through the filter and/or maybe some panning.

Fake time stretch - If I want to extend a chord or something to fit the tempo of the song coz it ends too soon, I'll resample it to another pad, reverse it and then resample the two to a third pad, playing one after the other with gate to the Korg metronome clicking the pattern tempo, to hopefully make a continuous sound. I use that on most beats.

Fake ADSR - Using MFX20 Voice Transformer but by turning the effect off, the Ctrl 3 knob can be used as a volume during resampling. That's how I get fade ins/outs on samples or soften the attack of a sound.

Once I have the song sequenced, I put all sample volumes down to 50 and then raise or lower them relative to eachother to 'mix', then I play the whole thing through MFX13 EQ for a bit of 'rounding off', into the Boss Micro BR, bouncing that internally through its 'mastering tool kit' limiter for some volume, rendering it as a WAV and then transfering it via USB to t'pooter. Then I put it into Audacity to snip out any pattern swap farts and export again as a WAV.

Basically - KISS..."Keep It Simple Stoopid". I don't worry so much about effects and sounds and mucking about. Getting the samples in tune is half the battle; then it's just a case of bashing them into an effective arrangement.

So say brother Nathan.

[asha c]

Thanks for sharing! The extended chord trick is great!! The bpm artifacts thing used to really annoy me on the OG! Great tips! Appreciate it

[Girru]

Can usually avoid using timestretch on music stuff with chops and then resampling them to a metronome or by doing the extend-y thing if it's the other way.

How, and how well, does the DJFX tuning trick you mentioned work for pitching on a 404? Could only find one vid ont'youtube with it but it was an SP-Vidz one so was therefore an infuriatingly under-researched and otherwise annoying video.

Go back to the OG!!!

[asha c]

Yeah i think it works well! Except you can only pitch down, i think its the middle dial, i used to use the other pitch fx, cant remember which one it is now but it tunes it to a specific note. I miss that radio fx tuner thing as well that can beef up the drums!