How I Chop Amen Break (Akai S1000)
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
- A fun video showing a few ways to chop the break. There are many ways to do that, really, but these are the most common ones.
Some rave video footage courtesy of Jungle Syndicate Recordings.
Intro track was made on Reason 10. I might do a video, on how to make jungle with a computer.
I use:
akai s1000
soundcraft spirit fx8 with lexicon effects
alesis quadraverb
korgmicro
Cubase VST32 for sequencing
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Now this is the first time I've ever seen someone chop the break in a way I can understand it. My mouth is still hanging open. Thank you so much for the demonstration!
He didn't invent this method.
The quality of this video is INSANE
Dig the old school set up. More often, less is more. Tks for sharing
As a professional TV editor I can't help but get a little sad when I see so little views on so well produced videos. I guess this is as popular as you can become in a niche topic like this. Keep it up man, absolutely loving your videos and trax 🙏
Appreciate ! Yeah, it's a niche thing, and also, for RUclips to pick up, I need to be consistent with my uploads, but I am pretty busy with work that I barely find time to make new videos.
Love it ! S1000 and s950 are fast becoming my favourite studio tools ... some good info!
Agree ! Wish I still had my s950.
Not surprised seeing you here 😁 big up
That intro got me subscribed.
Funny to see how you doing this by experience and i did this by accident from the beginning. But still a great vid and advice. From a new subscriber!
i think chopping them into 1/2 pieces with the “play to end” option enabled gives you a lot of freedom. you can use phrases, but also chop in more intricate slices.
I'm wondering HOW you are actually chopping the breaks IJO?
Inside the Akai? On the computer first, then recording the chops into the akai?
If so, what program do you prefer?
I've been doing alot of research and there seems to be several different ways. All I know is that I want to preserve that "swing" in the break that we love.
I use SoundForge for all my sample editing and browsing / saving. I usually match my bpm on soundforge, and i sample the full break in to the akai, where i do the chopping. I have tried in the past chopping breaks in soundforge and then sampling separate chops in to the akai, but it takes longer, and, the chops end up being slightly shorter and it kind of looses the groove, so i prefer doing the chopping in the sampler, it's pretty fast.
@@IJOSoundVideo thx so much man this is a huge help. I'm using adobe audition to do the browsing/saving b/c I've had experience with cool edit pro back in the day!
@@IJOSoundVideo If you wanna use little slices without hear that choppy sound especially at high pitches there's a little trick:
In SoundForge add a reverse copy of your slice right after the first and resample the entire sound, now your slices have that extra tail that fill the gaps when you go at high pitches.
Also, if you want to keep the original groove you just have to extract the midi transcription of your break and drop it in your daw and move the single elements at your taste.
Very nice video! But how do you get different chops to different keys? I am using Akai MPK mini. Thanks if anybody helps me out:)
Take it you're using the mpc beats software?
It's keygroups you're looking for, then you can assign zones to your keyboard, there are tutorials on RUclips that will explain it easily ✌🏻
Very nice video, thanks for putting it together!!
you know, if you ever get around to it, i’d love to see how you sample and chop breaks on the s1000 and whatever tips and tricks you have for working with the s1000. the tricky part i guess would be filming the screen and using it at the same time. 😬
just a thought anyway.
Hey, i was actually thinking on doing a video like that, the problem i have right now is - my screen is very dim, and while i am ok working with it, it won't show much filming it on camera, too dark for that, and am not planning on replacing the screen any time soon. And to be honest, the manual is pretty informative :D When i had to chop breaks the first time 11 years ago, i wanted to see a tutorial about that, and there were non, so i just went through a manual, and after doing it several times, it became pretty easy and intuitively fast. This isn't a drag and drop situation (like with many computer soft sampler players) so it does take a bit of time, but it's worth it :) There are other ways, like using scsi cable to dump your files using recycle, but i haven't used it as i feel i'd rather sample my sounds via analog input and then do the chopping inside the sampler.
bizzy B has some great vids on this. He's on the S950 and S3000xl but it seems all akais are quite similar in the way they work
@@ghal3on yes the workflow on the 3000xl is very similar to the s1000. he has one really great video tutorial and at the end he says "stay tuned to part 2, i have to go pick up my daughter from school." and then he never made part 2, unfortunately. just before he got into all the nitty gritty.
@@vhsx I know exactly the video youre talking about lol. He needs to tweak something with the gear and then "ok stay tuned for part2 !!!" which never came, as far as I can tell.
@@ghal3on yep exactly. drives me crazy.
Great sounds. Can you share where the bass is coming from? Do you use the MicroKorg for any of the sounds? Thanks great video.
Hey, thanks. I use an 808 drum kick sample for all my sub basses. I mostly use korg as a midi keyboard, and only use it rarely for additional pad/ lead sounds if I feel the track needs it. And to answer your other question, which for some reason is not displayed under another video - I made a video about how I get flangey drums :)
LOVE IT!
respect Bizzy!!!! Any plans on doing a "part 2" of those internal akai chops you were showing us?
@@ghal3on sure thing , I see the vid got some good response
@@TheBizzyBScience thx!! Im at the stage of figuring out how to chop breaks, so it would be a huge help to watch it being done
Awesome video quality and content wise. Kind of makes me want my s900 I sold back haha. But then again I did sell it for the MPC One which I'm using way more than I did the s900. Sounded good and had the classic timestretch sound, but nowadays there are ways to process it to sound similar or even better.
I mostly use the akai for the sound and the workflow. You can replicate the sound in the box and i have done that, but you can't replicate the workflow, and by that i mean the whole sampling / analog mixing etc :)
Always done the phrase choppin technique. Phat phat video.
Mate brilliant Chanel great tunes keep it going! Subbed 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I just got a MicroKorg, going to use it for pads and basslines. I had no idea that you could load it up with samples like this 😮 Are there are resources showing how to do this? Thank you
It's not samples, it is called patches, you can find them on RUclips and then buy it if you like, there's information on how to load / save patches on the internet too. I don't like the original patches on microKorg and in fact I bought the Korg specifically for the sounds I bought for it :D
i make that in TAL-SAMPLER VST. nice too see on the AKAI . Big UP like the same procedure in vst what i do .
wow i’ve been watching your videos forever. this is exactly what i’ve wanted. :D keep it up! also: what’s that shaker sample from?
Appreciate :) The shaker comes from Lynn Collins track called Think, where you also get several versions of a Think break.
So awesome, thanks
Hi, can you answer a question for me?
When you are demonstrating the phrases, the last one has a flange or phaser effect.
How do you make that please?
Hey. Yeah that one is a time stretched with a short cycle length which gives that flangey sound. I timestretch with Akaizer free plugin.
@@IJOSoundVideo thanks man, love your videos.
I have an S1100 and have leant some tricks from you.
Do you get these phrases to the bpm of the beat first when you chop it? Do you chop them in like quarter notes or anything like that?
i get my bpm in Soundfroge before going in to akai, saves me a lot of time. I chop in phrases, mostly kick, then snare phrase, and if it is an amen break, i chop it in different ways, depends on what i want to do with it. Including different time stretch modes, my amen break can have up to 17 chops :)
Don't let the lack of views get you down, we appreciate you, you could be reviewing the Barbie movie for 500,000 views, but you're here with us, and we appreciate that! JUNGLE IS MASSIVE!
Appreciate your comment !
Would you be down to do a tutorial on how to get those heavy late 90s early 2000s amens like the ones used by Tech Itch, Limewax, Dillinja, and Evol Intent? I've tried time and time again to get that sound with no success. Like they are super heavy but clean at the same time. Thanks in advance.
Well, if you want these sounds - take it straight from these tunes, if you can find clean breaks on them.. It is very difficult to get that sound from first generation breaks and process them you self with plugins, it won't sound good.. I have lots of breaks , good and bad, mostly bad, but what i pick up is based on my taste, and most of these breaks i own are taken from other jungle tunes.. Or i go through stuff my self and look for clean breaks, like in early Photek stuff, and take it from there, it's just sampling stuff u like :)
@@IJOSoundVideo yeah, I figured that was the case. Thanks man. Last night, I was able to get a break tone similar to the Jah Know Ya Big from modifying a pre-chopped but unmangled amen. It's also chopped by each individual hit but in a way that preserves the rolling quality.
@@IJOSoundVideo I you want, I can export it and link it to you.
man you are absolutely on point. heard waaaay too many robotic sounding drums. I want to hear that oldschool swing 100%
Badboy tune
Fantastic
Wow, Them Breaks Bro
How do you pitch the whole thing down while its playing?
it's only a drum program playing in the pitch menu, i couldn't do it with just drums while also other programs are playing at the same time.
wicked! thanks for video! =)
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awesome video!! respect!
Good stuff!
Love it 🥰
Big up IJO need some help please if you can, We’ll I’ve chopped my amen in phrases but to me it sounds choppy still I’m newbie to the S series
Hey, what kind of sampler are you using ? While i find the S1000 sounds perfect for what i need, i had s3000xl for a while as well, and it behaved differently always sounding choppy, i figured it sort of cuts milliseconds from the start of the chops which might create the choppy effect which i am not keen on at all. I found the s3000xl was a lot better for making house music using drum machine one-shots.
I have my S1000 connected to my G4 via SCSI and I have Recycle and my MPC Live 2 what I was chopping in before I got my S1000 in MPC I can adjust the tail length of chops and there’s legato mode, I do like using Recycle it make chopping a lot easier but I’m not sure if I can adjust the chops once I transmit to sampler
@@djtekkazlocked6486 Never used reaper so have no idea how that is different from just sampling loops in to the s1000 and chopping them inside the akai. I personally prefer sampling stuff in because it goes through the converters and that is where the akai sound comes from.
@@IJOSoundVideo yeah me 2 I sample it into S1000 and send the sample from the sampler to Recycle via scsi and the chop it in Recycle and then transfer back to Sampler it’s much quicker doing it this way, I’ve never used Reason also
yes!yes!man
amazo
Aphex Twin sticker spotted :-)
You might as well
Wicked tutorial
Mite as well , why not
Thanks for making these videos man. I always enjoy a good Akai video.
I have an S1100 that I have been trying to get my head around.
I have come from Ableton, but I want to add some authenticity to my studio and productions.
It's interesting for me to see how you have chopped the amen, as I have always chopped each hit.
I think it rolls better when chopped into phrases too.
Does someone know that wiggle sound at the beggining?
you mean the phone ringing sound ? :)
At the beggining yes i think its a phone ringing sound
Im trying to make some jungle tracks and ive been looking for that for a while now
@@psychomf__ this one particular sound comes from Loopmasters Ray Keith sample pack, but i prefer sampling one from DJ Gunshot Wheel 'N' Deal :)
Thanks
King☆☆☆☆☆
feel like I'm listening to a coco Bryce track
I'd say my music doesn't sound like Coco Bryce at all ! We make pretty different stuff and I honestly don't even listen to Coco Bryce, and in all fairness - I don't even listen to jungle at all :D There's very little influence on my music, mostly just my own ideas, and if it sounds similar to something else it is merely a coincidence.
Ну, что сказать - это замечательно!.
Мы очень любим твой jungle. Санкт Петербург ждёт этот ритм. Необычен. Превосходен. (кое что напоминает - но это будем держать в секрете - это никому не помешает).
Если что пиши Audrius сюда vk.com/vakkamaja0044