Chopping Samples in Koala Sampler: Relaxed natural light vibes, lofi after work chill session 🍺
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Blessed to be back with another episode of Chopping Samples, we are back in Koala chopping up a dope sample, sipping a cold beer and unwinding after a long day, cheers.
I just downloaded Koala last week, once I learn how to chop like this, it’s over.
You sick wit this sampler
Thank you so much, love it more everyday workflow is so fast and I like I can start a beat on my phone and finish on my iPad by airdropping the file
This was helpful. I grabbed koala because I was gonna be away from the studio and wanted to try something new and I’ve been having a blast with it. Simple but powerful.
Thanks for checking me out. Koala replaced Ableton and Sp404 for me. It’s too convenient to be able to quickly sample off TH-cam or Spotify and immediately be chopping all from your phone or tablet
Been watchin a lot of these when I’m not makin beats myself lol
Appreciate you, definitely easier to just kick back and watch lol that’s why I love YT, I watch people work on cars a lot even though I hate doing it myself 🤣
🔥🔥🔥Koala season 2 already starting off good 👍🏽
Thanks bro got a new focus🧘♂️
great video! could you make a video explaining how to arrange/perform/export a full track or set? i get a lot of cool ideas and loops like this but mainly i struggle to make a track out of it and i know it is a hard topic too. maybe you already explained some of that in one of your videos but i did not see it. anyways, very inspirational. thank you
Hey thank you so much for watching and commenting! I’ve been wanting to make a single in-depth video on beginning to end making a track in Koala so this was a good reminder. If you want your loop to be interesting for 2+ mins like a song would be, then you have to keep adding and removing elements, so it keeps things sonically interesting. One sequence should have no drums, another drums but maybe switch up the chop arrangement, another sequence maybe just percussive drums but no kick and snare or bass. You can take your loop and deconstruct it to build out the rest of the track, a loop with no drums can work as an intro, a bridge, and an outro
Vibes! 👏🏾✨👏🏾 I like the chill format of the video and how u still taught me stuff I didn’t know. Groovy 👏🏾✨
Thanks so much! Trying to bring YT back to basics, sort of what YT was in the beginning just people doing their thing
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Sorry, I just broke the symmetry of your 888 subscribers.... loving your vibes, thanks for doing this. I've had many different samplers from back in the olden times, but Koala continues to inspire. I love the portability, visual feedback and simplicity of the interface.
Lol thanks for the subscribe Herman I saw the 888 earlier and it def was oddly satisfying but one step closer to 1k! Yup Koala really is dope I ended up selling off my SP404sx awhile back to fund the new iPad and I have zero regrets. I know I’ll have the SX again anyway in the future but it allowed me to go all in with Koala
another dope video bro, people sleep on koala!
Thanks gliz; people slept on fruity loops too back in early 2000s and then it took over hiphop and EDM 😬
@@BirdBoss facts!
Wow, dope, man. I enjoy watching your approach ☺️
Thank you so much! Still learning
Love this, really tryna learn how to do this myself!! Thanks for making these. How do you change from the bar that has the “listen” tag to skip? Do you set to every 4 bars or something?
Thanks for watching! Can you further explain or tag the time in the video for your question? It’s been a minute since I watched.
Leroy hutson dope sample and chop
🔥Beat, great tips and digging the laid back style of this video. Solid👊🏻
Thanks so much 🖤 more to come ✌️
Thats rly nice! Its possible to arrange bests in koala?
Very possible and simple just drag sequences on top of each other and hit add to end
@@BirdBoss awesome, thanks for answer!
Dope session my friend, and glad the algorithm sent you my way! Just subscribed to your channel fam, keep cooking 🙏🏾✊🏾💚
Bless thank you so much 🖤 dope name
Dope
Thank you!
Thanks bird boss
np, Thanks for watching ✌️
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Great videos , thanks for sharing your insight using Koala! Do you have any recommendations on a good tempo or bpm to use when playing around with chops? Thank you :)
Thanks for the words! Really depends on the feel you’re going for. 84 smooth hiphop, 90 boom bap, 100-110 can be anything from chill dance to pop to indie, 115-120 house / disco, 140 trap, drill, EDM. There’s no real hard or fast rule but that’s a good starting point. Pitch the sample up or down as you change BPMs and see what sounds good to you
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What now? You make a beat like this, but then what do you do next with it?
All depends, if I think it would fit a rapper I put it in a folder I’ll send out at a later date. I might put it together with beats I’ve made around the same time frame to compile into a beat tape, or I might just let it collect dust until something presents itself where I could use it.
Im here bc of koala
Obviously haha lmao
You’ve come to the right place 🎉
Can you explain to me the part where you said you chop on the kick and the snare?
So to make a long story short I listen for the kick and listen for the snare, and that’s where I place my chops. If you count along with a sample like “1, 2, 3, 4; 1, 2, 3, 4” the kick will generally be (but not always) on the 1 and the snare will be on the 2. So when I chop my samples I chop on the 1 and 2; the kick and snare
@@BirdBoss thank you!!! I appreciate this.
Sorry I meant to say the kick is on the one and the snare is on the 2, not the 3.
@@BirdBoss so when you chop them, how do you get it sound like a cohesive loop? Is that through experimentation? Or is there like an exact science? Sorry if the question is dumb, I just started making beats 2 weeks ago
wait how did you put it to one shot without collapsing each chop?
If I’m understanding the question, Hold edit as you’re selecting the pads, then you can set them all as one shot. Also add each to the same choke so they cut each other off and don’t all play at once.
@@BirdBoss ahhhh so thats what the choke was meant for... thank you sm bro!
damn, just found your channel. you re a gem!!! Gonna blow up for sure. What DAW do you use?
Thanks so much ! Bigger and better for 2023 🎊🍾 I don’t use a daw really outside of Koala but if I need to do something with vocals or live sound I would use garage band on iOS; formerly I was a heavy Ableton user until my laptop died but now I do everything including video editing in my iPad
@@BirdBoss Nice to hear that. After I had bad laptops, where ripped Ableton did not work in my teens, I finally own a good laptop- learning (fully paid :D) Ableton right now. Damn Koala sounds very interesting. You inspired me
Great video…which sample are you using?
Thanks my bro, I’m sorry I really have no clue what this sample was, something I randomly screen recorded off Spotify
@@BirdBoss hahaha
Hey Boss. Do you have a recommendation for which Ugly Face pack to buy?
Think he’s running a sale on all his packs right now but I’ve been using the first one tons and love it; no matter which one you get can’t go wrong
I'm a Brazilian trying to make some Beats on Koala Sampler. I activate automatic subtitles in your videos and with that I can learn a little. But I confess that I still don't feel safe to make an instrumental... I think what bothers me is not knowing how to cut the Samples in a way that I can reuse them. Does the way you did it in this video work many times? Do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks so much for watching 🖤 There’s no right or wrong way to chop samples, my suggestion is making a simple drum beat in koala and turn up the swing. Then click a sample you want to chop, go into tools and hit auto chop and let Koala chop it for you (I like to use playthrough and all the samples on choke 1). Let koala chop the sample for you while you learn how to hit the samples in rhythm with your drums and just keep practicing, after a few weeks you’ll start to develop your own technique ✌️
@@BirdBoss Thanks bro! I'll try again, and in a few weeks I'll be back in the comments of this or another video with a feedback
How to you pick the bpm to record in?
Checkout my 130bpm video, I go into tempo a little more in-depth but basically around 84-90bpm you’re going to have a boom bap swing, 120 is more dance. There’s really no rules though but that’s a good place to start
@@BirdBoss thank you !
This is now you ruin your records, by cold beer condensation
That’s why I only spend $1-$2 per record 🤣