The Think Break | Sample, Process & Chop to Sampler & Drum Rack in Ableton | Perfect for Jungle

There are four excellent breakbeat samples in Lyn Collins' 1972 'Think (About It)' plus a super useful tambourine loop. In this video I show you how to sample and process all of them in Ableton, and two methods for chopping my favourites to Ableton stock devices: Sampler & Drum Rack.

Method 1 is to chop to a Sampler, for every slice of the Think. Method 2 shows you how to chop the Think break to a Drum Rack.

The Think breaks are perfect for jungle, drum and bass and all kinds of electronic music and they pair up beautifully with the Amen.

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Here's the tune in full:    • Lyn Collins - Think (About It)  

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0:00 Introduction
1:02 What the Think breaks sound like
2:13 How I sample the audio
2:47 When the breaks occur in the original track
3:32 Creating the one bar loops of each break
6:55 Repitch warp mode and potential pitfalls of warping
7:57 Processing the samples with audio effects before resampling
23:26 Resampling the breaks to print our audio processing
24:13 Warping, timestretching & more resampling
26:58 Chopping the break to a Sampler hit by hit
30:16 Tidying up the chops
33:40 My FAVOURITE thing about this method
34:30 Grouping our Sampler & adding Macro controls
35:41 Start chopping!
38:02 Embellishing our patterns with fills & rolls
40:09 Adjusting our Amplitude envelope for further shaping
40:40 Making another pattern
46:00 Chopping another Think break using a Drum Rack
1:00:00 Hearing both methods together & bringing in an Amen
1:04:00 Saving everything we've made
1:04:40 Conclusion & shout outs