Software to chop up samples?

dublindude wrote:

Hello,

I'm looking for an easy to use piece of software which I can use to chop up samples and put them together.

For example, if I recorded three chords on a guitar, one after the other, in sequence, and then decided I wanted to remove the second chord, I could chop it out.

Any recommendations?

Thank you.

I second the vote for Cool Edit Pro, now called Adobe Audition (whilst giving proper homage to ProTools as the industry-standard workhorse).

One thing to note about rearranging chord audio clips:

After you've done the recording, I'd recommend that (if your editor supports it - CEP does) use a Zero Crossing utility to position the start/end points of the audio selection at zero-value samples. The reason for this is because if the start and end samples of your audio clip are not zero, you'll hear an annoying click at the start and/or end of the clip, and it's difficult to filter out this click afterwards.

Alternatively, use an envelope function to rapidly fade in the start of each chord and rapidly fade out the end, and then rearrange your chord sequence as desired.

Have a look for "WaveSurgeon", it's the poor mans version of Steinberg ReCycle. A nice free small app that will automatically mark individual beats or "hits" in a given sample and then cut and extract them for you into single sounds. ie can take a snare from a drumloop etc. Tasty!