This key command makes editing really easy, and since your edit snaps to the transient you don’t need to zoom in and out to accomplish a rough edit. Do this until you have moved the start point of the region to the kick drum transient at beat 1 of the first whole bar. This is the key command for ‘Trim Region Start to Next Transient’. An efficient way to accomplish this is to repeatedly press Ctrl+Shift+]. If your track is like mine and doesn’t begin on the bar you will need to trim the region to the first downbeat. I’m going to use one of the most sampled tracks of all time, ‘Impeach The President’ by The Honey Drippers. President Selectīegin by dragging the song you would like to chop up onto an Audio Track in Logic.
In this month’s workshop, I’m going to walk you through how you can use Logic’s Flex Time to put any track at a constant tempo, use the audio editing facilities to chop the track into regions, and finally load those regions into the EXS24 sampler.
However, while the facilities are extensive it is not immediately obvious how to join the different features together. Logic has always had extensive facilities for chopping and editing audio and then triggering those edits in a sampler. Sample chopping still forms the backbone of many popular music tracks - for example, Kanye West’s 2016 track ‘Fade’ was built from many samples across multiple records. Logic Pro X sports extensive sampling tools. We can use Logic’s Flex Time to edit a song to a consistent tempo throughout. Screen 1: If you are going to chop up a song into sections to be triggered from a sampler then it helps if it’s all at the same tempo.