The way Flash (and I'm assuming 9th) does it, is he'll export a loop of highhats hitting on eighth notes from FL Studio to a wav file.
He'll open that wav file loop onto a track in the multitrack view of Cool Edit Pro and loop it out for a few bars.
Next he'll take his sample (already timestretched to the tempo of the highhats) and paste that onto a track in the multitrack view of FL Studio under the highhats.
Next he'll chop out (cut and paste) different sections of the sample and put them on their own tracks rearranging them following one another until he's got a melody he likes from the arrangement of the chops.
When he's got that (and any variations on that theme) in the way he wants it, he'll export that arrangement (minus the high hats) to a wav file.
Then he'll bring that new wav file up in FL Studio and trigger it along with drums.
I'm sure there are a million and one ways to chop and arrange samples both in and out of FL Studio, but if DJ Flash does it this way there's a good chance he learned to do it that way from 9th Wonder.
So let’s fast forward (>>) through your relentless digging through all those dusty records.
Finally you’ve found it! That simply amazing record with that amazing voice/loop/breakdown/part and you want to sample it and make the hottest possible record known to man, but you don’t know how to sample in FL.
So lets get down to it. Is your sample dirty? Excess clicks, pops, noise, record hum, scratches etc? If you want it that way skip through this part, but I would suggest, and this is a personal opinion, that you work with the sample as clean as possible initially and dirty it up to your specifications after the fact.
In order to clean up that sample (not too much though) I would suggest the Waves plug-ins X-Noise, X-Hum and X-click. Use Sony Soundforge 8 or any other audio editing application to clean up the whole song, cause who knows what other parts may work when you start.
Now that you have your soon to be sampled song ready to be chopped and re-assembled just dump the whole .mp3 or .wav file into the bottom of the playlist editor. You can load up as many different files as your computer can handle. Depending on the size of the file you may just see a blank block with the name of the file appear saying that it is being streamed from your hard disc.
In order to see the file go to the step sequencer click on the sample and click the option that lets the file be displayed.
So now you can see your file. Let the chopping looping and screwing begin.
In the play list editor to the left hand corner you will see a few tools that you may or may not have used. Let’s try the knife tool
In order to cut out the part you want just set your snap to ‘none’, zoom as close as possible and start cutting.
Now that you have cut your loop or part play it on loop to make sure that you have cut it just right.
Hmmm. . .
So how do I find the tempo of this?
Well you have options. You can either count how many bars you have sampled and adjust your tempo till the number of bars the file takes up syncs (once you haven’t stretched or compressed the sample before it would remain the same). Or you can stretch or compress the sample out to the required length or the number of bars the sample contains and adjust your tempo till it sounds like normal or how you want it (think chipmunks)
Ok, now you have your loop but you want to play another part of the song under it. Just cut out the part you want to use from the same file and make use of the ‘make unique’ function. Now you can have your different parts chopped up differently and don’t have to worry about parts dropping out because they start after one another. Try it. It’ll make sense once you do.
Once you click a part that you have chopped click again in an empty part of the audio section of the playlist to copy it.
Another problem you may encounter: Hit points don’t match up.
So your snare and kick sound a bit off sometimes during the sample. What you can do and get away with without any drops in the sample is cut the sample where the hit point is off and drag the hit point in the sample back onto the line where your kick or snare hits.
Another tip: Eq
Eq out all kicks and bass, they are your enemy. Not really, but if you want to change the kick pattern and come up with something totally new I suggest you do it and replay the bassline. This way you can now have more to switch up in the song. Also to you can eq out most of the backing instruments under a vocal and put it in under your music.
Don’t forget to use your panning and volume automation in here also.
So forget about that Fruity Slicer and going back and forth from program to program.
Once you get the hang of it I guarantee that it would help you out a great deal.
Just click my sig for examples of this procedure.
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