How to Work With Groove-based Samples

This four-part screencast continues to answer questions I have recently received by email or that I’ve been asked by my one to one students. This episode concentrates on how to rip samples from existing productions and sync them to your current projects tempo.

There are plenty of ways to do this and some methods are DAW specific. I’ve tried to concentrate on techniques that can be used with any DAW or at least are common to a few different titles. I you have any questions about the methods used here or suggestions for future tuts just let me know!


Part 1

The sample is converted from MP3, trimmed and saved.
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Part 2

The sample is then loaded into Recycle, edited and saved as a .REX file.
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Part 3

Our .REX file is loaded in Logic and we look at how to perform basic time stretching.
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Part 4

An alternative method for creating synced, sliced loops is looked at.
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