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Corpsey wrote: Just to check- Reason is shite for chopping up/using breaks isn't it? Or is that just me being shite

Reason, yes.

ReCycle, no.



I think?

no reason why you can't use recycle to chop larger bits. or just chop the same break 3 or 4 different ways and build a sampler instrument like that.

FWIW the original breaks were NOT recorded w/ low fidelity, they were recorded on the state-of-the-art equipment for the time. badass drummers, experienced engineers, neumann mic's, amek desks and 1/4" tape (and, in the case of the meters, an 1176) are NOT lo-fi in the least. different from today's standards, sure, but we're talking about the equivalent of $250,000 of gear in that sentence alone.

TeReKeTe wrote:FWIW the original breaks were NOT recorded w/ low fidelity, they were recorded on the state-of-the-art equipment for the time. badass drummers, experienced engineers, neumann mic's, amek desks and 1/4" tape (and, in the case of the meters, an 1176) are NOT lo-fi in the least. different from today's standards, sure, but we're talking about the equivalent of $250,000 of gear in that sentence alone.

I was gonna argue that the Amen sounds the way it does because it was recorded for a buck and a half. Turns out you're right, it was released by one of the biggest R&B labels at the time.

My bad

Auan wrote:

TeReKeTe wrote:FWIW the original breaks were NOT recorded w/ low fidelity, they were recorded on the state-of-the-art equipment for the time. badass drummers, experienced engineers, neumann mic's, amek desks and 1/4" tape (and, in the case of the meters, an 1176) are NOT lo-fi in the least. different from today's standards, sure, but we're talking about the equivalent of $250,000 of gear in that sentence alone.

I was gonna argue that the Amen sounds the way it does because it was recorded for a buck and a half. Turns out you're right, it was released by one of the biggest R&B labels at the time.

My bad

There's also the chance that with the Amen at least, they just 'got lucky'

Sure, they were aiming to make a top dollar sounding break, but a break aimed at a funk market, not one they were hoping to have kick start something else a couple of decades later.

This is not the software I was lookin for but along the same sort of lines where you split a break as an audio file in to 1/8's or 1/16's and then randomize where the chunks go. Can be a bit sporadic but can make some interesting and unique patterns:

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1785.html

Some good advice in here and yeah many ways to skin the cat!

Here's that Hatrixx tutorial I was talking about, found it on DOA. Good read.

http://breakbeat.hattrixx.co.uk/