Converting song to sequence

So I'm having a bit of trouble, I spent a good amount of time making a song, tried converting it to a sequence so I could record it but found that the sounds in the individual tracks are all messed up. I've tried fixing it by reorganising them, but unfortunately it seems as though certain parts of the song need to use the same track simultaneously, even though they were using different sounds before I converted them.

To explain as simply as possible, in the first sequence of my song I had drums in track one, and a synth in track two. That led into the second sequence, in which I had drums in track one, but a vocal sample in track two and synth in track three. Again, this led into the third sequence in which I might have had synth in track one, and synth in track two and vocals in track three, and so on, and now that I've converted the whole thing into one sequence they're all playing from a single set of tracks, so when I should be hearing synth I get drums instead - I'm sure you get the picture.

Is there any way to easily remedy this? And if not, when making a new song if I make sure that all of the tracks in different sequences are using the same instruments in the same order, will I be able to avoid this problem?

If anyone could help me out I'd be grateful, thanks.

Good questions! I did the exact same thing when I first started making music on my new MPC. Eventually I figured out that it is a good practice to label each track and maintain consistency so that when recording or re-visiting a song, it wouldn't be impossible to remember where everything was.

All that said, I am no expert on the functionality of the MPC (yet), but here is the very manual and annoying solution that I figured out to export those early songs. I had only used about 12 different sounds, so I noted the volume associated with each pad (sound), and then reduced all of them to zero except for one. Recorded the song with only that pad (instrument) playing back, then turned that pad down and turned the next one up to the respective volume. This process was not fun, but at the end I had 12 individual song tracks, one for each sound, and was able to re-load those 12 tracks and mix them down. (used quite a bit of RAM, but you can do all of that on a computer anyway).

Not sure if this is a viable solution for you, and I am sure others may have better ideas, but it worked for me. As far as new songs, I now use tracks 1-4 for drums, 5-8 for instruments, etc... Of course, if you want to put each instrument on an individual track you can do that too.

Cheers to those of us still learning...

Thanks for the input man, I'll be using your solution for the song I have at the moment, and I'll definitely have to label my tracks in the future so I know what needs to go where.
Much appreciated

Member wrote: I'll definitely have to label my tracks in the future so I know what needs to go where.

2 Ideas for you:

1st thing
When you make your first sequence, try to envisage what instruments you will be using and make track labels for all of them.
Then copy the sequence a few times to give you fresh ready labelled sequences to use. If you then stick to using each track for what it's labelled as then everything will line up when you convert SONG to SEQ.
When copying a SEQuence you can choose to copy everything or just the parameters.
If you choose parameters, then only the info like TRACK labels, TEMPO (bpm), Sequence label, etc, will be copied without any of the MIDI data you may have programmed. (Of course, sometimes , you may want to copy that too).

2nd thing
If you find yourself using much the same TRACK labels, SEQuence labels etc. on a lot of your projects, you may want to save an all SEQs file with just the necessary info on it, to load into your machine at start up to save you having to make those changes, label tracks etc everytime.

SAVE ALL SEQ AND SONGS the manual will show you how.

*Pilchard* wrote:

Member wrote: I'll definitely have to label my tracks in the future so I know what needs to go where.

2 Ideas for you:

1st thing
When you make your first sequence, try to envisage what instruments you will be using and make track labels for all of them.
Then copy the sequence a few times to give you fresh ready labelled sequences to use. If you then stick to using each track for what it's labelled as then everything will line up when you convert SONG to SEQ.
When copying a SEQuence you can choose to copy everything or just the parameters.
If you choose parameters, then only the info like TRACK labels, TEMPO (bpm), Sequence label, etc, will be copied without any of the MIDI data you may have programmed. (Of course, sometimes , you may want to copy that too).

2nd thing
If you find yourself using much the same TRACK labels, SEQuence labels etc. on a lot of your projects, you may want to save an all SEQs file with just the necessary info on it, to load into your machine at start up to save you having to make those changes, label tracks etc everytime.

SAVE ALL SEQ AND SONGS the manual will show you how.

That's great, I'm sure you just saved me a whole load of time man, thanks!

so i've read the solutions above which all sound like they would work for me especially because im having that exact same problem the only thing thats a different about my situation is that when it gets to a certain sequence it starts playing parts of tracks thats ive deleted from the sequence and skips other sequences all together.

any ideas on how i should go about fixing this project of mine?

I'm in a similar boat...
need to deal with ONLY 99 sequences in the MPC1000...so I plan on working on say 4 sequences and adding certain audio samples ..like for fretted bass...and then "comping down" (as they say in recording)....so the entire song is in one long sequence.
Then I can go back and delete the sequences used to create that song (all except the master comp'd sequence) ..and now I have lots of free-ed up srquence space to do my next song.
Sounds reasonable???? It's worked so far for me a lil..but on my 3rd song..I'm having some problems. The freeted bass parts isnt being played in the Master Comped sequence.
It plays fine when I go to its individual sequence..but not in the comp'd (converted sequence).
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Pilchard* wrote:

Member wrote: I'll definitely have to label my tracks in the future so I know what needs to go where.

2 Ideas for you:

1st thing
When you make your first sequence, try to envisage what instruments you will be using and make track labels for all of them.
Then copy the sequence a few times to give you fresh ready labelled sequences to use. If you then stick to using each track for what it's labelled as then everything will line up when you convert SONG to SEQ.
When copying a SEQuence you can choose to copy everything or just the parameters.
If you choose parameters, then only the info like TRACK labels, TEMPO (bpm), Sequence label, etc, will be copied without any of the MIDI data you may have programmed. (Of course, sometimes , you may want to copy that too).

2nd thing
If you find yourself using much the same TRACK labels, SEQuence labels etc. on a lot of your projects, you may want to save an all SEQs file with just the necessary info on it, to load into your machine at start up to save you having to make those changes, label tracks etc everytime.

SAVE ALL SEQ AND SONGS the manual will show you how.

This should be in the manual. Good housekeeping on the MPC will save you all sorts of problems later on. So take Pilchards advise, or don't ....

you might solve it with writing program changes into each sequence.

please help me, when I convert my sequences in song mode they make a new sequence as its suppose to, but in the new sequence the two sequences I converted end up being stacked on top of each other rather then playing in the consecutive order that I have them in the song mode. why is this error happening?