Copy Pads with different tunes?

Hi,

I received my mpc live today and this is my first mpc. Pretty impressed so far except a few things I can not figure out and I would appreciate some help.

1. I load a sample(808) and use the copy function to copy it to different pads and I would like to tune the pads to my own scale but when I change the tune in the sample edit window all the pads change their pitch. Is there a way to achieve that?

2. Is it possible to delete samples from the sample pool?

Thanks!

1) use the layer tune option in program edit, this only affects that unique instance on that pad/layer

2) no I believe this can only be done from the computer, I'll need to double check though

ocelot wrote:2. Is it possible to delete samples from the sample pool?

There is a way to delete unused samples. Go to the cpu/memory monitor area (top right). At the bottom there is a Purge button. You can purge any sample not currently in use.

Thank you very much for the quick replies!
I'll be back soon with more questions

Also in that screen if you press the folder icon next to in/out you can find additional actions

Cheers!

What about standalone? How do you scale 808s on the X/Live without software? First time MPC user but old Roland, and Novation user.

insert 808 sample into a keygroup pgm... This will spread it chromatically like a keyboard by default.

I am running into the same problem. I have a sample on a pad which I would like to copy several times and edit in different ways (change start and end times within the sample, and also tune up and down). Does anyone have a solution to this?

Lampdog wrote:

mtempo wrote:I am running into the same problem. I have a sample on a pad which I would like to copy several times and edit in different ways (change start and end times within the sample, and also tune up and down). Does anyone have a solution to this?

Physically make another copy of the sample.

You can also unlock slices... and make slice 1 different from slice 2 different from slice x...

slice 1 of the sample can have the same or different start, end and loop points...

EDIT: Personally I don't think I'd do this for various reasons... and would probably make a copy... just wanted folks to know you can use non destructive slices to do this too...

Lampdog wrote:Op mentioned an 808 sample. I assumed it’s one note and slices are more for bigger samples.

I could be wrong, maybe the sample is not one note.

Yeah, but what I'm trying to say is that slicing doesn't need to be for chopping...

Slice 1 - start of the sample is 0, end is end, assign to pad 1
Slice 2 - start of the sample is 200, end is end, assign to pad 2
... repeat this...

For doing this though, I'd probably just use 16 levels and be done with it that way... but I can see somebody might want to have the same sample, but adjust start/loop/end points separately on different pads.

Lampdog wrote:I’ll stop guessing, idk what the sample sounds like.

My responses may all have a reading comprehension problem today... so it checks out here too

Hello, I have a question that is similar.. I wonder if there is a shortcut to assigning slices from more than one sample. I used to be able to do this with program chops in JJOSXL on the MPC2500.

For example,

Let's say I had two 30-second long samples sampled from different sections of a song. I go into both extracted samples and chop them up, creating 2 new programs. I want to combine the two programs into one, where after the last slice of the first part, the next pad become the first slice of the second part. I used to do this on the 2500 by holding the pad and hitting up on the cursor I believe, which would make a copy of the sample onto that pad along with all the settings (like the copy function on the Live). pressing the + key would count to the next slice . then hold the pad, cursor up, + key and repeat.

I'd like to be able to do this just as quickly on the Live. Right now I have been copying the entire thing onto as many pads as I expect to use, then using the wheel to change the chop numbers one by one. Is there a faster way to do this? Thanks for reading..