having trouble with sequencing

i'm very new to the machine and don't appreciate the poor language and grammer of the user manual.

i've quickly mastered the easy tasks of making a loop, assigning samples etc, but i'd like to know how i can make more of an actual song. i can easily create tracks and loops but id like to be able to define when a track begins playing etc. i dont want everything to play at once. it'd mean a very unvaried song which would utterly suck.

you can do several things. instead of using the default 2 bar seq, you can make it longer for example 20 bars and then trigger what you want to come in when you want it to come in or you can make several seqs of 2 bars then arrange your seqs in song mode then convert it back to one large seq.

thank you. i had thought about doing a series of different sequences but i could only manage to arrange them to play one after the other, rather than several at a time, overlapping etc. i didn't want to have to manually copy an entire sequence and then add the one or two additional things to it.

what i do is start with my main seq, then i copy that onto another seq mute what i dont want to play during that seq or make drum or keyboard and so on when Im done i have about seven or eight seq to put in song mode some times more.

can you choose an option to copy the sequence or do you have to program in a new one each time.

in the main screen highlight the sequence name and hit window.
then hit copy and pick where you want it to copy it too.

no offense but as crappy as it may be, try reading the manual.
if you dont have a copy you can download it here

http://www.akaipro.com/documents/MPC1000/MPC1000_E3.zip

peace.

TeeDubya wrote:thank you. i had thought about doing a series of different sequences but i could only manage to arrange them to play one after the other, rather than several at a time, overlapping etc. i didn't want to have to manually copy an entire sequence and then add the one or two additional things to it.

you can never have more than one seq playing at the same time. there is a way to just copy the seq onto a new seq without having to reprogram the entire thing over and over again. get the manual out and read on copy seq. if you do what i was talking about up above, you should not have any problems

BTW Stop being lazy, copying seqs takes only seconds to do.