Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Sleepcomputer Fri Apr 08, 2016 2:48 am
Hey I picked up a 2k classic 2 weeks ago. I really love it. One thing I can't really figure out from the manual or find online is how the slider or fader thing works. I hit shift and realized you can control parameters of a sample like pitch or filter but it only does it on one at a time . The thing I find inconvenient about that is if I use it to pitch a sample and then wanna pitch another at the same pitch its nearly impossible. So is there any way of selecting multiple pads/samples and unanimously tuning them together?

By the way I know how to edit the pitch of every pad without the slider it just would save time if I could group them or something
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By mr_debauch Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:20 am
yeah that is the issue with that built in thing.. the way you really would need to do it would be via 8 outs.. send each sound to it's own out.. and for example, akai in the old days had a rack mount filter module that had i think 6 filters in it with midi that you could independently run 6 different things into .. so essentially you could do midi back and forth i would imagine and record (automate) the filter sweeps and have that recorded in the mpc's midi sequencer as well. I forget the model number of that filter though, but it was a 1U unit grey like most of their gear from back then.
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By Lampdog Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:11 pm
NV Slider only affects re-triggers, not continuous movement.
Put a single cycle sinewave on the nv slider, it's so small a sample when you slide
it will sound completely transparent and smooth. That will give you a bass line
you can record live.

There is no grouping of pads for nv slider, know your gear is old as hell, know your gears limitations.
It's doing what it's supposed to be doing.
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By Lampdog Fri Apr 08, 2016 7:16 pm
Usually you only find what a machine "can" do.
Or something someone figured out and combined features
to make it do something you thought it couldn't. You wont see a
list of what it can't do. Wash dishes, win drag races, crip walk. :-D

-shout out to "the R" for that one.