Boom Bap Sample Lab – 90s Hip-Hop Beat & Chop Studio

Vinyl Sample Waveform & Slice Markers

CRATE: GEORGE BENSON / NO I.D. VIBE (88.0 BPM - 4 BARS)

CHOP: PAD 1

SWING: 60% MPC

BIT-CRUSH: 12-BIT

8 sample slices mapped to teal pads. Click or drag to audition cue points.

16-Pad Drum & Chop Matrix

Key bindings: 1-4, Q-R, A-F, Z-V

16-Step Rhythm Sequencer

Master Transport

SP-1200 / MPC Tone

Tempo 88 BPM

MPC Swing 60%

Sample Pitch 0 st

Vinyl Dust 35%

Warm Lowpass Filter 3.8 kHz

“I Used to Love H.E.R.” (1994)
Produced by No I.D. for Common Sense, built around a soulful pitch-tuned guitar lick from George Benson's 1975 The Changing World. The track redefined hip-hop storytelling as an extended metaphor for the culture's golden era.

How To Build Your 90s Boom Bap Groove

Boom Bap combines unquantized swinging drums (typically 84–92 BPM) with dusty jazz, soul, and funk record chops.

1. Slicing the Crate

Click on the waveform to explore different cue points. The 8 teal pads trigger distinct melodic moments of the record. Use the Sample Pitch control to emulate pitching up records at 45 RPM on an SP-1200.

2. MPC Swing Engine

Roger Linn’s classic MPC swing delays even-numbered sixteenth notes. At 60% swing, the groove relaxes into the laid-back head-nod feel pioneered by J Dilla, Pete Rock, and No I.D.

3. Zero-Latency Audio Export

Click Export Loop (.WAV) to render 2 complete loop bars into a broadcast-standard 16-bit 44.1kHz stereo audio file ready to drop into your DAW.