I read an article a hundred years ago that Aphex Twin used Propellerheads Recycle to slice/chop up samples, and ever since then I’ve been obsessed with using samplers with chopped/sliced samples.
What would the amen break be without slicing and chopping?
Luckily we don’t have to use special software that supports individual manufacturers’ SCSI transfer protocol, or quirks in SMDI implementation, anymore. We just have to use proprietary vendor USB sample transfer or be stuck with whatever features the manufacturer offers 
(Shout out to DigiChain)
Sample start or loop start modulation based on quantized values has been around since the 90s.