Lampdog wrote:
By Lampdog
Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:24 pm
Stop getting automatically offended when you see gold letters!
By Format
Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:18 am
i hate midi, this shit is confusing.
My question is say you make another song with a one midi set and you want to back to another song you did previously with another midi set how can you keep track of all of these different sets? Sometimes i work on one song then i leave it and come back to it at a later date, but then at a later date i forget which sounds i assigned to the midi channels.
My question is say you make another song with a one midi set and you want to back to another song you did previously with another midi set how can you keep track of all of these different sets? Sometimes i work on one song then i leave it and come back to it at a later date, but then at a later date i forget which sounds i assigned to the midi channels.
By rinseout
Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:36 am
Format wrote:i hate midi, this **** is confusing.
My question is say you make another song with a one midi set and you want to back to another song you did previously with another midi set how can you keep track of all of these different sets? Sometimes i work on one song then i leave it and come back to it at a later date, but then at a later date i forget which sounds i assigned to the midi channels.
Thats what program changes are for.
By Smoove03
Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:39 pm
Format wrote:i hate midi, this **** is confusing.
My question is say you make another song with a one midi set and you want to back to another song you did previously with another midi set how can you keep track of all of these different sets? Sometimes i work on one song then i leave it and come back to it at a later date, but then at a later date i forget which sounds i assigned to the midi channels.
well not only program changes, but I use the pgm: field usually to select which patch I want to use. although the pgm field only goes up to 127, its usually enough for me to find a patch I need.
so, if you use the pgm field, you can select which patch you want on the module. and when you save your sequence, that pgm number saves also. so when you pull your beat back up, it will also pull up the pgm number you used. of course, depending on what kind of module you have, you may have to manually select the sound bank on the module. but this is one method that has always worked for me.
ps. people having trouble with midi need to read this thread. i've seen plenty of midi related threads lately.
By cam_bodia87
Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:25 pm
If you mean switching between different midi songs with different midi instruments, you need to make save your own presets. I name mine after songs.
So yeah, I have the jv1080, very similar instrument. So say that you are playing in performance mode. You should save a preset by the name of the track your working on, then for every new song, you can save a new preset for the different song. This way, when you are performing a live gig you just load up the song in the mpc, and switch to the next preset (which has the name of the song as the name for the patch). Then your good to go.
This is how I do it. It works extremely well because you know that you have the right sounds when it has the same name as the song you're working on.
- Cam
So yeah, I have the jv1080, very similar instrument. So say that you are playing in performance mode. You should save a preset by the name of the track your working on, then for every new song, you can save a new preset for the different song. This way, when you are performing a live gig you just load up the song in the mpc, and switch to the next preset (which has the name of the song as the name for the patch). Then your good to go.
This is how I do it. It works extremely well because you know that you have the right sounds when it has the same name as the song you're working on.
- Cam