I can only get drum break samples in syntakt to loop for one bar. Once i make the track longer than one bar it goes off tempo and overlaps. Is there only a one bar restriction or am i missing something?
There’s no time stretch, so to keep a full break in time you’ll have to find the right tuning for the tempo.
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Keeping the tempo in time with the tempo of the breaks. They loop fine for one bar but i get weird overlap once i make the track over one bar.
You will need to match the BPM of the pattern with the break. Use sample slot 2, AHD envelope with hold set to “AUTO”, then adjust trigger lenght to whatever you need. Also remember to make sure your master lenght settings are correct (this tripped me up at first - default master lenght is 16…)
However, I do not recommend using only looped breaks… mix and match full loops and chops, this is where the magic happens 
Twinshot machine is very good for breakbeats…
So how are people prepping their drum break sample chops for the ST? I’ve been mulling it over in my head and the obvious way - chopping each one into a handful of slices and loading those individual samples - both seems tedious to program and will eat up a ton of either sample slots (if using one track and P locking the sample) or eat up a ton of tracks (if using one slice per track). Am I missing something?
I made 3 to 5 slices per break of 4 different breaks, making sure each (BD + HH, SD + shuffle, SD + HH, etc) loops cleanly, took 16 up sample slots total and have found them fun to work with, and not too hard to layer one break with another across the two slots per track. And parameter lock each sample hit per step.
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I wonder if the old digitakt timestretch trick would work here, each track on the syntakt has two lfo’s yeah? don’t see why it wouldn’t, I mean shit you can do it on the model samples kinda
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It won’t, there’s no “starting point” param on twinshot.
But you can pitch up or down to match bpm old school style.
I just found this:
https://thewhippinpost.co.uk/tools/tempo-pitch-calculator
Syntakt is the world now.
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…twinshot is a classic oneshot sample gimmick with a little layer option…
tryin’ to sync up loops with it, even if ur overall tempi guessing seems correct at first, no workarounds will ever do the trick for really real…
I chop my breaks to 4 or 8 slices (depending on how many bars the break is). I love the way it works! When I get upload privileges, I will post examples on the twinshot SSL
I always export all my breaks in the same fixed BPM (currently 172.00 BPM). I prep and process all my breaks manually in audio editor & DAW before uploading
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oh boo that’s slightly disappointing, even the model samples can do makeshift timestretching
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it’s really old school sampling in that sense, time stretch and pitch are stitched together in this machine.
Still better than Digitone (1 or 2) tho…
Syntakt’s DTMX machine? what’s that
@cane_creek kind of AI bot hallucinations, I think.