Roland MC-909 Getting Started Manual page 41

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8. Press VELOCITY PAD 2 to hear The Pattern Formerly Known as Get Started!, which is now The
Sample Known As Whatever You Name It. In fact, you can play any pad to hear the resampled
pattern at different pitches and speeds.
When you've resampled as we just have—using the Stop Trigger feature—there's no sample
trimming required; it's already perfectly 16 beats long. Also, the MC-909 steals the pattern's
BPM setting and applies it to the sample, so it's already set correctly to 100 BPM without our
having to manually set it.
Chopping a Sample
One of the handiest of the MC-909's talents is its "chopping" ability. Chopping allows you to "slice"
up a groove or a sampled series of sounds into individual samples. Once chopped up, these
individual samples can easily be assigned to their own pads for playing. In the MC-909, you can
chop up a sample manually wherever you like, or you can let the MC-909 do it for you using its
AutoChop feature.
Let's see how Auto Chop works using the resampled pattern we just made.
1. Press CHOP—the Chop screen appears.
2. Press F4 (Auto Chop)—the Auto Chop window opens.
You can set Auto Chop to divide up a sample by:
• Level—so Auto Chop divides sample the each time its volume reaches a specified level.
• Beat—so Auto Chop divides the sample at each beat. It knows where the beats are since it
knows the sample's BPM setting.
• Divide X—sets Auto Chop to divide the sample into a specified number of equal chunks.
3. For our example, set Auto Chop to Beat.
4. Press
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and turn VALUE to set Beat to 1/2 notes.
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