Doing drops on a drum loop

Is it possible to this? I've tried assigning a pad with no sound so it negates the pad with the drum loop; but it still does this long pause before it gets around to the beginning of the loop again.

I'm aware of the method where you use a 3 channel mixer and multiple drum machines; you have one machine with the drum loop on one channel of the mixer and another channel with keys/etc and you do the drops by bringing down the fader. I don't have that gear yet tho..

Maybe possible to assign q-link slider to track volume? Not sure on your machine / OS

chop your drum loop into 16 parts.
sequence those.
use track mutes.

Or you can automate/record the volume fader in the mixer section to mute the loop, just like a dj does with his mixer.

It's a pity that it's not possible to tweak parameters in real time in the mpc2000xl. I use a S3000xl sampler as well. With that it's possible to record volume/pan/pitch/filter automation in the mpc. That works really cool. Although the editting in the Stepedit is bit of a pain. If I do something wrong I'll just re-record it. Great for intros/outros/breakdown stuff.

No thats not possible with the 2000. You can record mixerchanges but it won't change the volume of the actual playing drumloop in realtime.

peace

thanks for the responses guys

if you want a one beat rest or whatever i think you have to chop your loop and basically sequence it to fake the drop.