Does anyone know of any tutorials on recycle or NNXT on chopping up samples. Most of them Ive seen are chopping up drum loops bu tthats not what Im trying to do. I have an old record (in mp3 form) that I want to chop but I want to isolate the different sounds. Like seperate the drums from the instruments and vocals. Any ideas?
The art of chopping is finding individual sounds from the track you are sampling, and then applying filters to enhance a particular frequency(the sound you want) and filtering out the frequency range you dont want.
There are vocal removal programs, but I find the results on the ones Ive tried pretty poor standard. As for isolating indiviual instrument tracks from a track, that requires the original master tracks. Once a track has been mastered and finished you only have that to work with.
Like I said, some of the art of sampling is in finding the very small parts of a track that you can chop and then recombine to make something totally new. Another part of the art is in the cleanliness of the chops(with minimum clicks/pops from poor cutting accuracy)
Chopping an instrument is pretty much the same for any sample, the process is very similar to chopping beats, only with long sounds the chop points are not so obvious and it takes a little trial and error to get it spot on.
Soundforge is really really good for chopping, its what I use, and the ability to use waves plugins on the samples to get them just right before using them is another great positive.
Its really a matter of practice, keep practicing, and then when you are bored of practicing, practice some more.
Most of my learning has come from hands on fucking around and making mistakes(which actually sound good).
Recycle is good for samples that have obvious hitpoints, ie drum samples, instrument solos. It isnt always accurate using the slider to extract hitpoints, and I would recommend doing it manually by hand by zooming right in, then when you play the chops out of sequence or you requantize them, they fit nicely together.
Recycle is a very simple program once you get to know it. One of the best ways to learn a software is to read the help from the menu.
