Working With A Drumloop - Akai MPC Reference Manual

4.7 WORKING WITH A DRUM LOOP
Modern music producers often use drum loops to add grit and dimension to programmed beats.
And this is exactly what we want to do now!
Use the FILE BROWSER to locate a drum loop on your hard disk. It is not necessary that it does
match the tempo of your recorded tracks. Double-click the desired drum loop so that it is added to
the currently selected Program.
The Chop mode of the MPC hardware's Sample Edit page
Press the SAMPLE EDIT button of your MPC hardware to enter Sample Edit Mode.
Use the data dial to select the loaded drum loop. You can scroll through all loaded samples
seen the top of your MPC hardware display.
Press F1 (Chop) to enter the Chop mode. We are going to cut the drum loop into slices.
Use the cursor to navigate to the Threshold parameter and select a desired value. The higher
the selected value, the more slices will be created. Make sure to choose a threshold value so
that every transient peak of the drum loop is shown with a slice line.
Hint: Click on F4 (Audition) to play the created slices via the pads. Each slice is automatically
assigned to a pad, starting from Pad A01 with Slice 1 and so on.
Now we'll create a new Program containing all created slices as single samples as well as the
corresponding note events to playback these slices in a row. This is very easy!
Press F5 (Convert) to enter the Convert Slices page. Use the cursor to navigate to the
following parameters and select the value indicated as follows: Convert to Sliced Samples,
Crop Samples to On, Create New Program to On, Create Events to On and finally the
Number Of Bars to the bar length of your recorded track, in our example that is 2. Press F6
(Do It) to proceed!
Start the playback and listen how the drum loop matches your song tempo now.
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