I watched the video. It was cool, seemed like a pretty standard approach.
What did he mean by “clip cropping”? I probably didn’t get it because I don’t use Ableton. I normally slice breaks on hardware samples or sometimes Renoise tracker.
I think actual cropping basically a lossy style of working where with out cropping you can drag the endpoints to reveal more of the underlying sample. I’m not an ableton user either so I’m no expert.
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Ableton speak for cropping a sample.
Stupid I know, but thats what they call it.
Thanks, I think I get it now. It’s pretty cool that you can mark and extend the clip/sample without destructively cutting it. I know Ableton is a very capable DAW, but I just never used it – that’s probably weird, since it’s so popular.
Never heard of “clip cropping” as a Live term in the 10+ years i’ve been using it.
Cool. But you know what it is.
Slightly different from the control+j or ‘consolidate’ command.
I started with Ableton 14 years ago maybe?haven’t used it at all in the last two years.
Clips is just the Ableton term for stem.
A stem is either a audio or a midi clip.
Samples are audio clips therefore, that can be cropped
Sorry if this was obvious 
Hey there folks ! I made a new episode of my “Breakbeat Torture” tutorial, this one mostly about DSP process with the new Arturia COLDFIRE plugin, but there is some of my classic cut up / slicing tricks in there as well.
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I wonder if you’ve got your hands on the DT2 yet, would love to know how you would approach doing breaks on it
still cant figure out a way to do breaks on the machine, I still use the OT exclusively for breaks now 
Speaking of breaks on DT2, I’ve had some success with getting breaks to work, but the grid machine is far from ideal for a lot of complex things (they just need to introduce manual slicing).
Its really easy to warp a break to the bpm, resample it, and then start locking start points on trigs to basically slice up the break. That said, repeating myself here again, it would be a lot easier if they had manual slicing.
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I’m trying to find an interview with either Macc or Dgohn. I read it a few years ago, and it contained a lot of great tips for chopping.
Anyone else remember this? Would love to re-read it, but can’t remember where it was posted.
Some of their excellent breakage:
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Ah thanks, that’s brilliant! I misremembered it as a more formal interview on some web magazine and must have been doing a lousy bit of googling. 
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