Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By eastcoast121 Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:53 pm
wats good yall i looked in the manual and couldnt find anything on this. is there a way i can take a sound, start it at like 0 filter and record me moving the wheel to make the filter slowly go up? the only workaround i can think of is chopping the sample into 8th notes across 16 pads and increasing the filter by like 7 on each pad. it would be much easier just to be able to record that in tho. any insight is appreciated.
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By pt3r Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:42 pm
Not AFAIK. Nice workaround though.
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By peterpiper Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:39 pm
He ment the envelope for the filter. Go to program -> highlight the cutoff frq and hit "Open Window".
Set the Amount to 100 and experiment with attack and decay.

Well I thought about using the NV Slider but i doesn't work cause it doesn't change the cutoff in realtime (while the sample play). Then I thought about sysex and it the possibilities this could give. I've searched the net but didnt find sysexmaps for the 2000 only the guy named foge1 who wrote a sysexmap for the mpc 4000. Watch his video. He did a great job.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=101399&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

but this couldn't be done in the mpc2000 cause it doesn't regognize sysex for the "sound generator". Thats sad :(

peace
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By Dj Pound Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:48 am
Yeah thats a real bummer about the 2k. You have to continously trigger a sample while toggling the NV slider to get a sweeping filter effect. In other words the MPC's sequencer doesnt record "smooth" parameter changes, only "triggered" in note data.

I mean hell, I also have a KORG es-1...and it came out right around the same time as the 2k. And with the es-1 you record both smooth and triggered sample parameter data.
This is especially for helpful for kinds of automation tricks.
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By Lampdog Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:30 am
MPC's have never been full fledged sampler or workstation, until 1k came along, then it started to get way better with stock features and functions.

4k is a different story, it's always been full fledged.