It's hard as hell for me to synch up my samples with the tempo I want. Am I just cutting my samples wrong, or is there something else?

You need to give more info! Like what your using to chop!

wunderkid wrote:

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It's hard as hell for me to synch up my samples with the tempo I want. Am I just cutting my samples wrong, or is there something else?

Download this program called MixMeister, it gives you the exact tempos for any song that your looking for. Saves time as well.

ok, you said with the tempo you want? I'm not big on the sampling tip yet but i think you need to time stretch in order to fit your tempo otherwise your going to have to find the tempo that fits your chops. could be wrong if thats not wat your asking. if u using fl u might need to learn ur way around the wave traveller plug in.

there could be alot of things ur doing wrong, if u cut ur sample wrong no matter what tempo or stretch on it, its not going to loop. once u get it cut properly then u need to determine if its going to be easier to adjust ur tempo to the sample, or adjust the sample to ur tempo. And as previously stated we would need more info, as in what program ur working on etc, holla

Mr.Ripley wrote:

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wunderkid wrote:

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It's hard as hell for me to synch up my samples with the tempo I want. Am I just cutting my samples wrong, or is there something else?

Download this program called MixMeister, it gives you the exact tempos for any song that your looking for. Saves time as well.

While the MixMeister is a great program, sometimes the tempos are not detected right. I might play the sample in iTunes and tap the tempo in FL at the same time to detect the tempo on my own. First I'd restretch all audio clips except the sample to fit the tempo of the sample, then allign the wave sample against my patterns, zoom in all the way and notice thats the end of the sample is not on the money. In order to be able to restretch the tempo without losing original tone of the samples the FL's sampling option has to be set to Pro Transient. In order to activate that option I'd have to stretch the sample by grabbing the end on a full zoom lil off the end point wait until it restretch (longer samples take about 1 min to restretch) and then restretch back to the actual end point.
Then I'd allign the start of the wave against the start of the pattern and see what is the difference at the end of the pattern. Then I'd use both my eyes and ears to see where I have to move the end pont of the wave, and while adjusting the tempo I'd see the wave move to its right location. Its all it is, just a lil tempo difference like 1, 2 bpm or even x of a thousand, more or less.
The way I described is easy but has to be carafully organized. It works for me very well. I have used this method to make all the remixes and you can hear for yourself that it works great.<br><br>Post edited by: DIVINE CITY, at: 2007/10/23 00:39

learn to find it by ear.

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J Woods wrote:

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learn to find it by ear.

I agree, its the best way.

I tried to download tha mixmiester but its not compatible with Mac. Is there something that I can use on a Mac to find the Tempo?????

i usually use a bpm counter, you can find one offa google and jus tape the space bar to count what the bpm is, like everyone else said you gotta make sure its chopped up right to, if its a simple sample id chop it up by each bar, ive also noticed that if your usin a sample performed with live instruments, sometimes an instrument is jus slightly off enuff to mess up where your tryna chop it