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[Alyctro]

I wanted to chop up a break as a single instrument with each hit being a single sample cut from the original loop. All the samples have the same root note. I usually start from C5 or C4 as that's where most vst drums start so it feels natural for my hand. And the only way i found to keep the drum samples at the same speed and pitch was assigning them to the white keys, and just counting down in semitones until i reach the root note again. That seems to work but it's seemingly impractical. Is there a better way of doing this? I don't have any notation knowledge i just do it by ear.

[OldSkoolRaver]

Yep this has annoyed me too. You make your chops but each one has pitched differently!

[raina]

If you want to have your sample slices under one instrument, counting and changing their relative note accordingly is the way to go.

It's not only slow but also limiting because you can't then play the slices at arbitrary pitches from the start. Not every song needs this though, or repeating the same sample mapping for each octave could be enough.

Having each slice as its own instrument is faster to set up and doesn't have this limitation but you may prefer having the slices under one instrument number. It's a matter of personal preference and can depend on what's best for any given module.

There's also the option of keeping the loop intact as one sample and chopping it live with 9xx, which I prefer, but that also comes with its drawback of slower setup of trimming and resampling the loop to make the hits align with the 256-byte offsets of 9xx's granularity. Another limitation of this is that 9xx of course reserves the effect column for the triggering row.