Looping without holding down the pad?

I have been through 80% of the manual cant seem to figure this, I would like the realtively long sample i made loop continualy after the pad is triggered, i already am useing velocity to trigger a blank patch on the same pad to turn it off and that works great, but there has to be a way to have the sample loop infinetly without useing the note on with pad held down?

any help would be great!

The most useable method is to use a latching footswitch with the switch set to the pad the sample is on.

There's also the Loop & hang glitch which is discussed in the archive. Works without the external switch but not quite as accessible. Basically fools the machine into dropping the Note Off message.

or there's always the sequencer...

I know, I know -- crazy idea right?

Thank you for the help

Ill do a search for the loop and hang glitch, but i am realy shocked that you cant loop hands free without a foot switch! seems like such a basic funtion of a sampler.

im new to sequenser use, so perhaps it will provide a work around.

Im trying to use the unit for live loop triggering and the odd sound effect, to fill in for the lack of a keyboard player (he recently passed away) in our band.
sound effects is no problem but its shallow in the looping use.

I was useing an awsome program called backtobasics9 that does everything i need but it involves the unstable enviroment we call a PC lol.

still my hands on use of a working 1K is limited to the last 8 hours so Im sure there is a method i havnt stumbled apon yet.

thanks for the suggestions so far, ijust grabbed a hold switch and will be trying it out to see if it will work, sadly if it does I am under the impression that leaves me with a total of two looping hands free samples and the rest of the pads are either one shots or require the user to keep their hands help on it...wich is difficult because it would be our drummer that is triggering it.

any other suggestions anyone has I will be more then happy to try.

I guess I didn't read your first post closely enough but for some reason I thought you were already using the sequencer and for some reason didn't want too, but it seems that is not the case.

Do not sleep on the sequencer. It's what makes the MPC what it is and once you understand it you will realize why the MPC doesn't seem to have the standard features you would see on a cheap looper or phrase sampler. It's designed from a different angle that may not be as easy for most novices to grasp but gives you much more control over the production.

All you really need to do is line up the timing of the loops with the sequencer timing and set up a looping midi trigger at the point where the loop ends. You can run as many as you like as long as you don't take up more than the thirty two voices available.

oh man you are so right about different angle aproach, Im just starting to dig in to the sequencer features and it may do the trick... its just once you worked in a certain format its hard to reprogram your brain to look at applying the music in a different manner. I got very used to drag drop and play.

thedvs01 I understand what your ment know lol

now i have to figure out what gets triggered and removed in what order and it "apears" this aproach may still leave the mpc operator some room for live performance corrections like bottle dogeing and string changes.