It all depends on the sample, to be honest. There are times, however, where you can include these elements and still make your mix sound great. This is why most of the time, it’s beneficial to slice around the kicks, snares, and anything else that will make your beat sound unclean. I learned the hard way in some of my earlier samplings, that if you don’t chop precisely enough, your mix WILL sound sloppy and unprofessional. It looks like a little corner post that you see in those new-age “Futbol” games that the kids are always raving about (Not really, it just looks like a marker with a plus next to it). Start by clicking on the “Add / Remove Marker / Region” which is the little button 5 from the right.

It’s what gives us our individuality and keeps us coming back to the studio. That’s what makes us all unique! For instance, two people could make the same sample sound totally different.

Everyone has their own way of chopping up a sample. This is where it gets fun and interesting. Nowadays, it makes a neat little icon!! 😀Īnywho, click that button, find where you saved your sample, and then load it into Edison for chopping. In 1990, it was what you used to store crap on. You know, those things that no one uses anymore because it’s not 1990? 😛 Next, we’re going to click the file box all the way to the left which looks like a picture of a little floppy disk. In FL Studio, there’s a scissor at the top. I used to use Reason’s ReCycle, but once I discovered Edison, there was no going back. Today I will strip down the process for you!! The prospect of collecting records and using them to sample is something that I have always been passionate about but didn’t always know how to do.

Well maybe not that bad, but hopefully you know where I’m coming from. It is strange to think that at one point, this was a major obstacle that I thought was one of the most complicated things in the universe. Now that we’ve got a WAV file on our desktop for sampling, let’s take it to FL Studio and chop it up!Įver wondered how to sample from vinyl records? As a beatmaker, I used to labor over this question.

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