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By LaJProd Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:59 pm
Rhythm-is-tha-Music wrote:
LaJProd wrote:Why don't people just learn how to play in time?!..Doesn't seem like a hard task to me!!!!


and... it's a FUN thing to do !!! :D


Correcto!!!! 8)
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By TBonus76 Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:26 pm
woozee wrote:No is not about timestretching.In ableton you can choose a quantisation:1 bar,1/8,1/16 etc...and than when you're playing the clips ableton respect the quantisation that you have use,so you don't make mistakes when you are playing.But I think that unfortunately the akai doesn't have this option.


I don't mess with ableton, but I think I understand what you want to be able to do. You want to make sure that when you trigger your sample, it extends all the way through the last count of the bar, but then stops as soon as the next sample starts? Try this:

MUTE GROUPS. If you set all the samples you want to behave like this to the same mute group, then when a sample is playing, as soon as you hit the next sample, it will stop the previous one. Not quite the same as the quantize feature you were asking about, but it will have the same effect.

By woozee Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:23 am
Thanks for the tip.I will try it.

By woozee Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:06 am
In reality what i mean is the opposite:that the next sample plays only when the previous one has finish,no matter if you trigger it before the end.Let's say that in Play mode the next samples enters exactly in time depending on what global quantisation you put on the song .If you put one bar the sample will enter after the last bar has finish,if you put 1/16 it will enter exactly after the last 1/16 has finish.If you have for example a sliced sample on the pads,and you want to reproduce the sample with the pads,this feature helps you playi it back correctly.
I know you have to practice and bla bla bla....but for me sometimes this feature i very usefull.
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By Lampdog Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:23 am
RundFyrkant wrote:you can quant your play.
hold the noterepeat key han select quant resolution.
keep it pressed while hitting the instrumentpads and the sound will hit the beat perfectly.


I would have NEVER known that, that's a new one to me.

My apologies if I misled anyone.

"I think you are wrong."
I think you are wrong, we were talking about that feature inside of mpc's machines weren't we?

RundFyrkant set everyone str8 with that.

By woozee Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:55 am
I tried what RundFyrkant said but it doesn't work.

I said you were wrong because you said that this feature didn't exist in any other machine.
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By Lampdog Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:06 pm
Ableton is not a machine.
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By REMIX Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:03 pm
In REASOn you can do this with a RECYCLEd sample in DRREX loop player. This sounds like it could be possible on the MPC after you have the it chop up the samples. Maybe do a search on your MPC under tempo change or beat change. I also know that other software like CUBASE and NUENDO can do this chop a beat and play the slice back in time, if the sequence is slowed down or sped up. Keep up the good work, there is a solution.
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By Lampdog Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:13 pm
woozee, did RundFyrkants solution work out for you?

By woozee Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:58 pm
On my machine when i do what RundFyrkants say,the machine act strangely.The pads sometimes they play and sometimes not.It doesn't seem to work well.Did you try it?
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By joeybells Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:06 pm
On the subject.
You know when you set the TC for a track and DO IT (eg. 56%)
Then you go to another track and do another different TC setting (eg. 64%).
Then you go back to the first track (maybe during another session) and you want to adjust the TC slightly, but how the hell can you tell what your original TC setting was?!?! (cos it just reads what ever the last setting you made - perhaps on another track)

This is really buggin me bigtime, cos I always use different TC settings on different tracks and would like to be able to go around and tweak tc's slightly in different tracks, but how can i do this if i don't know what the current tc setting is.

I think I might go and doublepost this in the OS3 thread. Sorry Mods.
:(
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By TBonus76 Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:19 pm
joeybells wrote:On the subject.
You know when you set the TC for a track and DO IT (eg. 56%)
Then you go to another track and do another different TC setting (eg. 64%).
Then you go back to the first track (maybe during another session) and you want to adjust the TC slightly, but how the hell can you tell what your original TC setting was?!?! (cos it just reads what ever the last setting you made - perhaps on another track)

This is really buggin me bigtime, cos I always use different TC settings on different tracks and would like to be able to go around and tweak tc's slightly in different tracks, but how can i do this if i don't know what the current tc setting is.

I think I might go and doublepost this in the OS3 thread. Sorry Mods.
:(



Yeah, it would be nice if it somehow save the setting per track... I have the same problem sometimes. You just have to listen and guess what setting you used before, then tweak from there.

By pad-ophiliac Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:34 pm
you could reset it back to 50% and then tweak from there. use the "fix" button.
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By joeybells Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:26 pm
Personally i think when you hit a pad and go into TC, the values you see in that window should pop up for the pad selected (and you should be able to hit another pad and the values would change - if there were on different TC settings of course) so you could compare the tc settings of different pads and change them / match them or whatever.

I might put this to JJ. Must be easy to implement.