By Paulinko
Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:05 pm
iMPC Pro Sample, Name and Saving Glitches
We are the defacto beta testers for this app.
Recording Samples
When recording samples via a USB interface, I get no sound during the recording. This means two sets of headphones, one connected to the USB interface, and the other to my iPad. I haven't had this monitoring problem with any other app.
Renaming Samples
The app doesn't give you the option to overwrite a recording you don't like or to even delete it. You can do retry and it won't save the recording. Here's a work around: Use iFunBox to delete and transfer correct samples with correct names back into the app. Add correct sound with name back into the program where you want to use the sound.
Saving and Renaming Programs
Programs are where you save sounds to pads in a collection of 64 pads in four banks of 16 pads each (ABCD). Select program and sounds where you can drag sounds from the various folders in the list, record new sounds, or edit the sound that's already on the selected pad.
When you make a change to an existing program, an "*" will appear next to the program name. If you are creating or editing a program, you will have to save it or lose it before exiting iMPC Pro.
Any time you save a program that already exists, you will have to give it a new name. You can delete programs you don't want. Be careful about how you do this and it might be good to experiment to be sure of how the app will respond to the changes before putting a lot of effort into creating your own programs (read below for an example).
Tabletop
The iMPC Pro inside Tabletop will NOT have any of your custom samples or programs due to the way Apple has sandboxed iOS apps so they can't share files. This is supposed to change with iOS 8. It would be very nice if there was a utility provided by the app developers to allow us to export and import sounds, programs, sequences, and projects between Tabletop version of iMPC Pro, regular iMPC Pro as well as the app on our other iOS devices or people we'd like to share them with.
I copied some of my sounds into the Tabletop version of iMPC Pro, assigned them to two programs, noticed that I needed to make changes to the programs. I wanted to have the programs with the changes to have their original name. During the process of saving the programs with a different name, deleting the original, and saving a copy with the original and deleting the copy with the name I didn't want, the Tabletop version of iMPC Pro LOST all of my user programs. I had to recreate the programs by dragging the sounds onto the pads again. I believe this happened when I deleted the first program but I'm not too sure so experiment before you invest time into your projects.
Tabletop MIDI Learn
Works as advertised for iMPC.
iMPC Pro it will frequently crash just trying to assign the pads. Once you do get all of the pads assigned with midi learn, and save the session it promptly forgets the midi learn (i.e. useless).
We are the defacto beta testers for this app.
Recording Samples
When recording samples via a USB interface, I get no sound during the recording. This means two sets of headphones, one connected to the USB interface, and the other to my iPad. I haven't had this monitoring problem with any other app.
Renaming Samples
The app doesn't give you the option to overwrite a recording you don't like or to even delete it. You can do retry and it won't save the recording. Here's a work around: Use iFunBox to delete and transfer correct samples with correct names back into the app. Add correct sound with name back into the program where you want to use the sound.
Saving and Renaming Programs
Programs are where you save sounds to pads in a collection of 64 pads in four banks of 16 pads each (ABCD). Select program and sounds where you can drag sounds from the various folders in the list, record new sounds, or edit the sound that's already on the selected pad.
When you make a change to an existing program, an "*" will appear next to the program name. If you are creating or editing a program, you will have to save it or lose it before exiting iMPC Pro.
Any time you save a program that already exists, you will have to give it a new name. You can delete programs you don't want. Be careful about how you do this and it might be good to experiment to be sure of how the app will respond to the changes before putting a lot of effort into creating your own programs (read below for an example).
Tabletop
The iMPC Pro inside Tabletop will NOT have any of your custom samples or programs due to the way Apple has sandboxed iOS apps so they can't share files. This is supposed to change with iOS 8. It would be very nice if there was a utility provided by the app developers to allow us to export and import sounds, programs, sequences, and projects between Tabletop version of iMPC Pro, regular iMPC Pro as well as the app on our other iOS devices or people we'd like to share them with.
I copied some of my sounds into the Tabletop version of iMPC Pro, assigned them to two programs, noticed that I needed to make changes to the programs. I wanted to have the programs with the changes to have their original name. During the process of saving the programs with a different name, deleting the original, and saving a copy with the original and deleting the copy with the name I didn't want, the Tabletop version of iMPC Pro LOST all of my user programs. I had to recreate the programs by dragging the sounds onto the pads again. I believe this happened when I deleted the first program but I'm not too sure so experiment before you invest time into your projects.
Tabletop MIDI Learn
Works as advertised for iMPC.
iMPC Pro it will frequently crash just trying to assign the pads. Once you do get all of the pads assigned with midi learn, and save the session it promptly forgets the midi learn (i.e. useless).