One of my favorite features of the Roland SP-404 is the CHOP feature which allows you to create slices of a sample in real time as the sample plays back. You initiate playback by pressing the first sample pad which also marks the start of the first slice. The moment you hit the second sample pad, the first slice ends, the next slice begins, and the first slice is assigned to the first sample pad. Meanwhile, playback continues and you repeat this on the rest of the pads until have your desired slices or you run out of pads. This makes it very seamless to create slices very organically as if you were “performing” the sample slicing process. My question is: is there a way to mimic this feature in Cubase? It seems like the main way of creating manual slices is to click around until you find your start/end points which is just not my preferred way of doing things. Can I somehow initiate playback and maybe click the mouse when I want a slice to start/end?
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the new mpc’s and i believe maschine has a very similar feature.
i could only find something like this in groove agent. only difference is you are actually creating samples for each chop rather than assigning start/stop to the original sample. it creates a new sample for each new midi note pressed in real time.
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