"The whole idea of chopping a sample up by either the transient or by the bar beat position was not something that was in the original MPC. It was added because that’s what Pete Rock was doing. He was getting a sample and chopping it up into eighth notes or sixteenth notes. So then the guys that made the MPC said, ‘Oh, well, we can actually add that feature.’ They added it, boom."—Prince Charles Alexander >

Prince Charles freaked the Funk >

https://djhistory.com/read/prince-charles-freaked-the-funk/

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