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ok, ive been doing my own music for about a year now, using reason, and cubase. this may sound like a ridiculous question, but how do you sample beats? i can compose beats, but have no idea how to sample them, or what equipment i would need to do this. i have absolutely no clue whatsoever. if anyone could shed any light on this, or point me in the right direction id be really grateful. cheers
 
Why would you want to sample someone's beats? That's like the pinnacle of inoriginality.
 
kidzebra said:
ok, ive been doing my own music for about a year now, using reason, and cubase. this may sound like a ridiculous question, but how do you sample beats? i can compose beats, but have no idea how to sample them, or what equipment i would need to do this. i have absolutely no clue whatsoever. if anyone could shed any light on this, or point me in the right direction id be really grateful. cheers
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It might be better to sample a "song"
 
Why don't you try sampling your own beats, and editing & adding effects to them, and creating a new original sound. Take some of your own samples, add some delay to them, or reverse them, or add some flanger to them. There's NUMEROUS ways to get new sounds that you can use without sampling other music.
 
Take a look at recycle. It's pretty much tailor made for chopping and re-arraigning drum tracks. I use it all the time for chopping breaks and it semi automates the whole process to about 1 minute (versus doing it manually which takes a while). It will spit out a REX formated sample, meaning the chopped sample with hit points and a midi track to play back the original loop, which then can be used with either dr.rex in reason or imported directly into cubase. You can also export directly to just about any sampler via SMDI
 
Noddy301 said:
It might be better to sample a "song"
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LOL, I agree with my fellow DC nigga here.

Y'all shouldn't be helping this cat out - his question is too stupid to be answered. He should look it up himself without asking and wasting our time.
 
kidzebra said:
this may sound like a ridiculous question, but how do you sample beats? i
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He did warn us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D

LOL
 
i think he meant make sampled beats, i use audascity to chop my samples an dput them together using fruiyloops
 
lets not get like the other forums.Maybe he doesnt know how to explain what he wants to know.Give him some time.He obviously respects our knowledge or he wouldnt have asked.I believe he wants to know the process behind it.Recording part of a track and using it at your will.Whether its looping it or chopping it up.I
'll wait before I direct you somewhere else because i feel someone here can explain it better than I can.
 
REEK BROCK said:
lets not get like the other forums.Maybe he doesnt know how to explain what he wants to know.Give him some time.He obviously respects our knowledge or he wouldnt have asked.I believe he wants to know the process behind it.Recording part of a track and using it at your will.Whether its looping it or chopping it up.I
'll wait before I direct you somewhere else because i feel someone here can explain it better than I can.
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I disagree. I believe it is better for us not to waste time helping him find things that he could learn himself and it's better for him to understand that he has to do his own research 'cause, in the real world, no-one's gonna be spoon-feeding him.
 
I'll help out when I can .People did the same for me so I'll return the favor.There's no such thing as a stupid question.If you dont know then you should ask.
 
eh i know what he meant...

fam chop that shit up in adobe audition... save each sample as a .wav

assign each .wav to a channel in fruity loops

adjust the pitch/timing to match the bpm

adjust the volume cut of each channel to sharp

send the selected .wav sample into the piano roll

draw using the paint brush, where you want the sample to be triggered

add drums accordingly

adjust swing

keep it funky




and youre done. gotta help out folks whos starting out... i was once there... i know how it felt.
 
kidzebra said:
ok, ive been doing my own music for about a year now, using reason, and cubase. this may sound like a ridiculous question, but how do you sample beats? i can compose beats, but have no idea how to sample them, or what equipment i would need to do this. i have absolutely no clue whatsoever. if anyone could shed any light on this, or point me in the right direction id be really grateful. cheers
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i don't think they understood you why don't you come back and ask again

i have 2 high performance that i've never used make that 3 the third is software base i don't sample only because i make my own sample and record them via midi so it's easily editable ( as i work with notes and that include drums)

anyway don't despair

Respect
 
man there's some low people in here...someone on this forum has a signature that says something like :"What good is knowledge if you can't share?"

I'll share...not all of it though, but you won't find me doggin' you cause you didn't know the correct way to ask a question.

Well. You're gonna need some equipment to sample, as well as some creativity.
I'll sample everything from tv, cd, radio and vinyl.
Let's just say you want to make some banger out of an old classic track.
Rip the track into your computer (or just the part you want). Edit it in cubase (cubase supports ripping cd's so use it). By editing I mean cutting away the parts you're not planning to use for the beat. Depending on the tempo of the track you might choose to timestretch the sample (change the tempo of the track but not the key), just to make it fit in at a reasonable tempo. I usually don't do this cause sometimes it just doensn't feel right. After you do this you're gonna need to slice it up in recycle. Here you just make fragments of the beat for you to trigger. When I sample shit I rather it doesn't sound like the original track, so I seldom make tracks that I just loop up a bar or two. When you chop it up it ends up being more original I think.
I don't know if you've gotten any wiser, but you're more likely to want to try it out or figure it out now, that if all you got was a lame ass: "Learn it yourself" from some nobody with a insecurity issue.
 
Look, I ain't trying to hate or front like I'm a master. That's not who I am.

I just feel that sampling is something very personal; a producer's style is usually defined by how they sample. Therefore, it's realistically best for someone to learn how to sample by himself.

Just my opinion,

Deen
 
kidzebra said:
ok, ive been doing my own music for about a year now, using reason, and cubase. this may sound like a ridiculous question, but how do you sample beats? i can compose beats, but have no idea how to sample them, or what equipment i would need to do this. i have absolutely no clue whatsoever. if anyone could shed any light on this, or point me in the right direction id be really grateful. cheers
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check out youtube.com homie they got plenty of videos on sampling..thats how i learned to do it so check that out homie... good luck and happy sampling
 
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