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Is anyone here who can advise me on how to slice up river and animal sounds into individual 'bits' playable on keyboard or digital drums? When I chop up a sample, it get a crunchy sound?

Any clues for me?

Zero crossings are your friends

Whenever a sound starts from a non-zero sample, you hear a click; same for the end.
So there are 2 things you can do in your favourite sound editor:

1 - let the editor adjust your selection to the nearest zero-crossing points, and use that
(in Audacity, for instance, just press z)

2 - apply very short fade-in and fade-out to the chopped part, so that it will start from zero and end with zero

Thank you. I am using Audition and haven't sorted it yet. Will try Audacity.

You're welcome!
For Audition, I've just found this:
https://helpx.adobe.com/audition/using/selecting-audio.html#snap_to_markers_rulers_frames_and_zero_crossings

Thank you. I am using Audition and haven't sorted it yet. Will try Audacity.