man where u get beat slicer? you pay for that shit?
okay depending on what kind of a song im tryin to sample i will do a number of things
1. if i find a hot loop, ill time stretch that in soundforge to whatever it needs to be at so it dont lose its pitch, unless thats what ur looking for, in that case just timestretch in fl, then ill just load that up and set it as cut itself and you know just loop some bars and cut some here and there etc
2. if its something like a jazz sample or something like that where a loop is not gonna sound good, and i just got a bunch of single piano keys playin or something of that matter, ill load up what part i think has the best sounds in soundforge, and ill cut that out, and paste it into recycle, cut up the individual notes, send it to a rex file and open it in fruity slicer, then rearrange those into a melody
3. if its something like a soul sample with lots of nice phrases, ill calculate the bpms and ill timestretch it accordingly (in soundforge if i want the pitch to remain the same), then ill go in and cus on the drums the same amount time for each beat, then go into fl studio, put all those on sampler channels and stretch them all to 1 beat, even tho u already did, just to keep it consistant if you change the tempo, then put that in a layer and fuck with that in your midi controller or whatever
4. if i got a song that i want to make a beat out of, but cant really make much out of the other methods, ill go into soundforge and choose the auto regioner, make it at a minimum of like .4 second chops, and have that chop up the whole song, then ill go in and listen to different regions at random and get some sounds i like, and try and rearrange it into a beat.
after any of those its always nice to compose a little too for some ambience or something to compliment what you put together, if your beat is soundin too plain
those are the methods of sampling i have come up with, i probably use 2 and 3 the most often, since i dont like looping (it makes me feel like i havent done anyhting) and since 4 is always a last resort. you just gotta listen to the sample and see what you like. I will throw a vinyl on and listen to it while im importing it into soundforge, and everytime i hear a hot sound or phrase ill press 'm' and it will mark the track, that way you can go in and check out all those parts then cut em up. sorry if this was a long post, i hope some of it helped