Hi guys, sorry I haven’t contributed too much lately. Life’s been super busy (I left one workplace and started at another this week). Also, a massive thanks to @dimi3 for this site 
Just wanted to chime in on the drum sampler tip that @Lymtronics mentioned. It’s one of my main techniques for slicing, dicing and remixing sections of audio. It works very well indeed for Drum ‘n’ Bass, but is by no means limited to that style.
Essentially, you create a snippet of tape that contains clicks at the bpm of your current project and for a certain denomination of beats to the bar, eg, 1/8 notes. For my DnB tracks, I tend to do it for 1/8 notes at 170bpm. To do this, dial in your bpm, load up a drum kit with some kind of short click in it, eg 808 rim, use the endless sequencer, set it to 1/8 notes (or chosen denomination) and make a repeating sequence of clicks. Then record 12 seconds of it to tape, ensuring you sync start it with record + key.
Next, lift the clicks off the tape and drop them into a spare drum sampler. Now for the prep. Starting with the first key and working through the keyboard, set the corresponding samples to start exactly where each click starts and set the end point to right at the end of the whole 12 seconds. (You will need to zoom in and out to get things nice and accurate). Also set the red knob such that the sample triggers while the key is held down (simple red arrow without the perpendicular line). To make it easier, you can lift and drop the settings from one key to the next as you work your way through the keyboard. Once you’ve finished with your prep work, save the drum sampler as a preset and either rename it using a computer to “170bpm” or just remember which slot you left it on.
Phew! Next the fun bit. You can now take snippets of tape from the track you’re working on (for me, this might be a breakbeat I’ve prepared) and drop them over the top of your click drum sampler. What will happen is that all your start and end points will still be in tact, just with the new audio you dropped in instead of the clicks. This allows you to create new sequences (I prefer endless here) of the sliced and diced audio. Things to try: (1) simply rearrange the 1/8 notes to get a kind of after-the-fact fill mechanism; (2) create remixed sequences that contain elements of silence; (3) create sequences where some notes are “held down” for a few notes (this is the reason you set the end point if each click to be the very end of the 12 seconds.
Sorry for the ridiculously long post, one day I’ll make a video of the tip, but you can get some very detailed drum programming going by using it. Check out the Notorious track on my soundcloud which was for the Hitchcock Battle. Side note: the electronic bass sound from that track came from an E.S.G. sample and I saw them the other week in Glastonbury - too cool!
