sampling with the mpc 2000xl

[BourbanBoi]

i was just wondering what is some of the ways to sample................... do u just take a sample and loop it through out the song or cut it up and assign them to different pads and use different parts at a time.........what is the best way to go about sampling???????

[dj ShorTbuS]

exactly what you just described. experiment and figure out what you like best.

[BourbanBoi]

when u sample how long are your samples???????

[Loose Cannon]

You can sample whatever you want. You can be like P. Diddy and copy a 30 sec loop from sting then put a hip-hop drumkit over it, or you can be like Primo and sample 2 seconds from somethin and cut it up and make a hopt beat out of it. You can do whatever you want. Like Shortbus said, "Experiment and figure out what you like best".

[BourbanBoi]

thanks for the reply.......i just got mpc so im still new to everything .............. i used fruity loops before ...............so im gettin used to how i want to use my samples in my beats.............but thanks for the info

[The Bastard]

ive mad the transition from fruity loops to mpc too ,took about a month or so to full know how to do all the basic and intermediate shit ,it prolly woulda taken a shorter period of time if i could work wit it more,i bought it durin the end of the school sememster which is crunch time for the finals so it sat for a while,i can pretty much do everything i want with it now and u can use yur fruity loops wit yur mpc to ,by makin sum melodies in fl then trigerin them in the mpc ,word life im out