looping without note on?

is it possible to loop a sample from the program page without putting it on note on?
I want to mix from my deck with my mpc, but want the loop to go one without having to hold down the pad, OR setup a sequence that loops (cause that takes too long whilst mixing).

Is this even possible to do this?
thanks

gurulyons wrote:is it possible to loop a sample from the program page without putting it on note on?
I want to mix from my deck with my mpc, but want the loop to go one without having to hold down the pad, OR setup a sequence that loops (cause that takes too long whilst mixing).

Is this even possible to do this?
thanks

do you want to just load a sample to a pad and press the pad and have the sample continue to loop over and over until you stop it? without programming or doing any other setup precess?

then answer to that (from what i understand) is no.

maybe you can resample the loop and make it as long as you want it to be?

well i was hoping to loop a 4 bar part of a record and loop it while I cue up the next bit of the same (or different) record on my turntable. It is near impossible to cue up the record AND hold down the "loop" pad at the same time, and setting up a sequence is to lengthy for mixing on the fly....

maybe i should look into a roland sp303, or perhaps this is somethin akai should look into for the new OS.......doubt it tho.

the mpc1000 does have loop points hit mode+pad6 then ull see a tab called loop, its in the manual. as for hold down pad and let it play then let go of pad for it to stop thats in mode+pad7. hit window for the sample u selected in the sample window. now ull see the layer property window if ur sample is in field 1 turn on instead of one shot, turn it to note on. thats it but u can do more just read the manual.

gurulyons wrote:well i was hoping to loop a 4 bar part of a record and loop it while I cue up the next bit of the same (or different) record on my turntable. It is near impossible to cue up the record AND hold down the "loop" pad at the same time, and setting up a sequence is to lengthy for mixing on the fly....

maybe i should look into a roland sp303, or perhaps this is somethin akai should look into for the new OS.......doubt it tho.

why don't you do this. when you are preparing for your gig, take an extra 5-10 minutes and set up seqs along with your playlists and load them all on the mpc when you are setting up your equipment, right b4 the show. that way everything is prepared and you can have everything at your fingertips.


i do understand what you are trying to do, though.

does anyone else have any suggestions?

gurulyons wrote:well i was hoping to loop a 4 bar part of a record and loop it while I cue up the next bit of the same (or different) record on my turntable. It is near impossible to cue up the record AND hold down the "loop" pad at the same time, and setting up a sequence is to lengthy for mixing on the fly....

maybe i should look into a roland sp303, or perhaps this is somethin akai should look into for the new OS.......doubt it tho.

well as i said.. i think you should resample the loop to 4 bars and the maybe normalize it to get it to the right level, then put it in the end of the sequence. It should take about 5-10 minutes as sparq said.

Hope it helps

maybe i misunderstand, but i would play the loop and holding the pad while in record mode until the end of the sequence, and then it will loop by itself and you can cue the record.

or i would prepare the loops on tracks the same way beforehand.

Or you could just record your sample, quickly assign it to a pad, then hit the pad every 4 bars to loop it manually? Make sure the pad is already set to one shot, and mono in the 'params' window so that it doesn't overlap when looping. This way you don't have to set up a sequence, you just loop by ear, then mix in your record when ready. Obviously this wouldn't work for someone with no sense of timing / rhythm

I think this is what you meant...

"maybe i should look into a roland sp303, or perhaps this is somethin akai should look into for the new OS."

You need a completely different peice of gear called a Looper. Akai has already made them and discontinued them, S-20 and Remix16. There have been other/better loopers made: Electrix Repeater, Oberheim Echoplex, Lexicon Jamman. All designed to sample and loop on the fly.

MPC's are not true loopers.

yeah,
At the moment, I aint got no gigs to prepare for (I wish!), it was just somethin i was messin with in my setup, trying to find limits to the gear that i have, and I have obviously found one (although small and relatively insignificant!). I guess that a couple of mins spent setting up sequences would be the way to go, it just would have been nice to do it completly as i went along ( to keep my options open, at parties n stuff you know?).

Anyway, perhaps i should pick up that looping mixer that akai made, there probably cheap by now...

thanks again.
Lester