How I chop breakbeats in Bitwig Studio (DnB / Jungle)

Chopping breakbeats was one of the biggest hurdles I faced when I got started producing drum & bass / jungle. If you're new to producing or just want to know how Bitwig can support the break chopping process - this video is for you! #musicproduction #bitwigstudio

@0:00 The goal
@0:20 Tempo
@0:44 Re-pitch
@2:15 Chopping
@3:57 Resequencing
@4:34 The most important thing

[NoyaD]

Great that you also use Bitwig <3
Fun facts: I just spent a fair amount of time in the past week to homogenize my break library and map all my breaks to 170 bpm in order to use them in my SmplTrek (its repitch algorithm sucks).

I did slightly differently from you in order to match the BPM:
- I used "elastique" instead of repitch which i think it creates less artifacts and sounds more accurate
- then i was just dragging the mouse over the bpm textbox and adjust to match the bars.

Many thanks instead for showing how to chop instead! I was missing that bits and it's pure gold! Looking forward to try it out°

[LazyCloud]

Thank you for passing on your knowledge, chopping drums have been my weak point! I really love your atmo/pad tutorial so much I've created my own template for sound design.

[sinisterj]

Thank you for this. I think you are such a great teacher. Even a noob like me can understand. I just got an Akai MPC Live 2 retro to work on timing and this was very helpful in understanding sample manipulation to tempo. I have been watching your 2000xl videos a lot lately.

[aquanodemusic]

Nice and simple, thanks! It also gets really interesting when you start to play 2 slices at the same time, e.g. off by half a step or something 👍

[Muldvarp_]

Great tutorial man, always love getting back to basics and seeing how others do it!

[DystopianTofu]

👏Nice, i missed that. Thats what i was waiting for from you :))) Thank you! What also really would interest me is how you actually layer these chopped breaks with other drum samples in one of your own dnb tracks. And similar to that topic, some overview of most basic and common dn`b patterns and how to create them with choped breaks. There are some tutorials about that on youtube, but while i really like how you look at things and explain them, i really would dig to know what you have to say about that. 🙏

[morgan]

something neat i did for some old wip of mine, was i had a break that was pretty off grid, so i think i used something automated in logic, or maybe i did it by hand idr, but i used repitch stretching to snap all the notes to the grid and then when i chopped it, there was some interesting pitch movement that i wouldn't have gotten if i had either not done that or used a more modern algorithm. also logic has akaizer stretching built in (called tempophone), but sadly that's not available in sampler/quicksampler

[djshire]

Wonderful tutorial, especially since I got Bitwig Studio during the holiday sale.

[dmitryshevchenko]

Thank your for all the videos! I cannot find a video that would show whether you can play sampler in the way you would play simpler in the thru mode, when whatever slice you play it reaches the end and starts again, chocking the previous playing sample, so that you get a constant flow. It is crucial and the only thing that still keeps me using ableton. You showed that kind of a mode in the video about Amiga. Sorry if this was asked before. Would very much appreciate an answer.

[gog]

But if I have an off-grid sample, when some of the transients are not perfectly aligned with the grid. Should I quantize the loop or just work with it as is?

[GeorgeLocke]

Where can i go to get the classic breaks? Is there a sample CD on archive that has good ones? Don't want the hassle of searching them all out individually.

[cruzumki]

When matching the sample to the 1 bar length on Linux, holding the alt key gives me the same symbol, but then when I drag the entire Bitwig window moves. I'm on a Linux system, but everything is set up as if it were windows. Might be a dumb question, but what respective key do I need to press to match my selected sample to the bar length? Or is there something in the keybind settings that you changed? I have the audio event mode on repitch and everything else works. Love ur vids btw, other than this small issue I've had I love Bitwig so far too!

[yanaheinstein]

you have to edit the length of each sample so you can play the entire beat. also try this.
program a pattern and than double each note. 😊.

[memecoinmafia]

nice thanks hardest thing for me is making a loop when there a no obvious transients ....i find Serato Sample works nicely in Bitwig ....i'll give slice to drum machine a try now 👍👍👍👍

[atetraxx]

I often do this but this really only works if you already have a tight break. Many times you'll need to do some work to get to this point