mr. gottabody wrote:IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT SINCE I FIRST GOT MY MPC, EVERYTIME I TRY TO CANCEL ONE PAD WITH ANOTHER IT OVERLAPS SLIGHTLY, IVE TRIED THE MONO THING BUT IT DOESNT WORK, IVE ALSO TRIED THE OPEN WINDOW MENU IN ORDER TO GET IT BUT STILL DIDN'T WORK, I WANT ALL THE PADS TO CANCEL EACH OTHER OUT. IS THERE AN EASY WAY OF DOING THIS?
As far as I know, this cannot be done on the XL. Each pad can only mute up to two pads at a time. To set this up, hit shift F2 to go into the sound parameters screen. Now go over to voice overlap and press open window. Tap the sound you want to mute another sound. Now go down to the "Mutes off" half of the screen and select the pad/s you want muted.
I just checked the manual and it said nothing about all pads being able to mute all other pads. What I do to get around this if I need a pad to mute more than two sounds is this. Go to an empty pad and assign a short sound like a high hat to it. Then turn that pad volume all the way to 0. Set that pad to mute up to two more sounds that you wanted your first pad to mute. Now have that second pad play simultaneously with the first pad. Now when you hit the first pad, that will trigger that second pad and give you up to 4 mutes with the pressing of one pad. If you need even more mutes, just set up more simul pads like this until you have as many as you need.