Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By violence Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:39 pm
anyone know the best way to accomplish this:

trying to setup 2 dedicated outputs for sending to the side chain inputs on a hardware compressor. so, ultimately I would like for 1 sequence of my drums to send 4 outs (2 to my mixer and 2 to the compressor side chain).

I believe that you can't assign a sound to 4 outs so I'd have to make duplicates of the sample correct? what's the best way to accomplish this so I don't have to resequence my drums twice? or is there a much easier way that I'm not thinking of.

my mixer only has 3 aux sends so I don't want to waste two of them on the side chain.
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By Lampdog Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:30 pm
Assign the same sample to more than 1 pad.
Then you can have the same sound on different individual outputs in the mixer.
Of course you'll have to match all the settings so they all sound the same.
By violence Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:52 pm
Lampdog wrote:Assign the same sample to more than 1 pad.
Then you can have the same sound on different individual outputs in the mixer.
Of course you'll have to match all the settings so they all sound the same.


Would I have to program additional sequences for the new pad or can I somehow copy the ones I already have? Resequencing to match isn't really an option since I do a lot of un-quantized drum programming.
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By Lampdog Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:55 pm
Try and work through some of what you just asked and you might get it worked out.
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By tapedeck Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:04 pm
use the SIMULT function on the pad you want to use as a sidechain, then duplicate this pad and assign it to a different output.
have SIMULT trigger this duplicated pad.