Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By matiasmatias Sun Nov 22, 2015 2:51 am
Hi,

anyone knows how i can change the velocity on the fly while the sequence is going?

-The velocity change but only when the loops starts, so i cannot go natural adding velocity (i'm recording live).



sorry for my english hope someone can understand..

Saludos !
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By tapedeck Mon Nov 23, 2015 4:43 pm
depends - are you sequencing one long sample, or a bunch of samples triggered repeatedly?
if it's a long sample, you can't...you'd have to use a volume envelope to make it work.
if it's a bunch of repeated samples, you could record them in using 16 levels, or just play them in how you want (maybe i'm not understanding the question).
also, you can go in to step editor and edit each note's velocity after the fact.
By matiasmatias Tue Nov 24, 2015 11:33 am
Thanks for the answer tapedeck !

Uou i can't believe it cannot be done on the fly or by the slider or the cogwheel. So i definitely will have to buy an external mixer for each output… !!!! grrrrrrr really it's hard to understand why it cannot be done.



Thanks !
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By Wal Martian Tue Nov 24, 2015 3:39 pm
MIDI production centre. You can only effect velocity of MIDI notes. If you have one long sound, you hit the pad once to play it that's one MIDI note with one velocity value of 0-127. Like Tapedeck said the solution might be to chop the sound into small parts and use the pad velocity/step edit to punch in the different values.
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By tapedeck Tue Nov 24, 2015 4:53 pm
saying it again, don't underestimate the volume envelopes - if you set a long attack, you'll get a slowly rising volume, for example.
even cooler if you do it on the filter.
By matiasmatias Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:35 pm
maybe i don't get it….

If i understand right what you are saying is to chop difference samples and changing to velocity to each track? I feel I'm getting it wrong.

What i was looking for is to hit a pad and during the 4 bars and change on the fly volume/filter/whatever, but without waiting to star the new loop.

example: I'm using the filter.

Im recording, the sequence starts and when i try to use the filter/volume/etc the loops has to start again to notice the changes, so its really robotic, I cannot do it manually, i cut some frequency and has to wait to the loop to start again to take effect.

Sure I'm missing something
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By Retro Styles Wed Nov 25, 2015 8:03 pm
Now you are not missing anything
That's the way that mpc 2k/xl works.
When you are recording something you cant change the velocity until you press stop and go -->step editor --> find the midi note --> change the velocity data

One another way is to let the sequence going and go to mixer screen (Shift +7) and change the volume from here, like you are mixing live.
Peace
By matiasmatias Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:54 pm
Wal Martian wrote:or get one of these
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yes could be, but i really like the sound of the mpc filter that already has the mpc i know its not as good as that one, but i really like it….. i'm kind of stuck y that way