Chopping Breaks in Ableton Live, Jungle / Drum and Bass Programming V1

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I program a lot of Breaks for Jungle, Drum and Bass & Hip Hop etc and I've had a few people ask what I use etc, so I thought I would make a (not so) quick tutorial describing the process.

I use the old school way, as I come from using hardware samplers, so I slice each part of the break manually. It's a slightly longer process, but I prefer this, as it gives you more control over each individual part / hit / slice, so you can reprogram, re-pitch and re-time each individual hit, giving you more control over the groove and timing of the break in its entirety.

I use Ableton Live, this is Live Suite 9 on a PC, I will be posting up a Mac specific tutorial soon. Apologies in advance for the video quality, it's recorded on my phone, the next ones will be screen recorded, so they'll be better quality, watch this space

The break I use in this video is the 'Football' Break, from one of DJ Bluewater's downloads on the DOA forum a while ago, you can DL it here:


Also check out the main site for more breakbeat goodness:


I've tried to explain each process in as much detail as possible, but if anyone has any queries or questions about any of the processes here, feel free to drop a comment and I'll be more than happy to answer them, as best I can.

EDIT: Here's a link to the Ableton Project file, as requested from a few people. I've programmed a few variations and added a choked version, which I will go through on the next vid:


Again, this is not set in stone, just how I do it, there are no hard or fast rules, whatever works for you.

Peace