does 16 levels tune chromatically/to a scale?

for example, if i have a bass note that is a C and i use the 16 levels function will it lay out the sample across the pads to the scale with all the sharps and flats? or does it just pitch the samples up a bit kinda randomly?


i dont have the best ear for pitch in the world, but im trying to improve it, im also trying to start a bass patch folder for my mpc, i figured if i didnt have to sample each note, it would go a little faster, because i am happy with the sound of the 16 levels function, i just dont know if it actually tunes them to a certain pitch.

thanks

Yes it pitches them to a chromatic scale.
It'd be pretty useless if it didn't.

i see, thanks man. thats cool

*Pilchard* wrote:Yes it pitches them to a chromatic scale.
It'd be pretty useless if it didn't.

What intonation does it use? There are countless ways to divide an octave into 12.

it goes each +/-1 is 10 cents.

so +10 is one semitone.

edit: that's on an older mpc. some mpcs actually have cents proper so it might be +/-100 is one semitone (mpc1000 etc work this way, i do believe).

as for any 'innotation' or other fine variables, i guarantee you it's using the most basic, mathematical formula to resample.

innovine wrote:

*Pilchard* wrote:Yes it pitches them to a chromatic scale.
It'd be pretty useless if it didn't.

What intonation does it use? There are countless ways to divide an octave into 12.

Not for a chromatic scale there isnt. based on concert tuning 440Hz is A. So pitch is determined by the frequency of the sound. Chromatic tuning of MPC is, as stated above, is a mathematical conversion of pitch based on the first sample. So if first sample is not in correct pitch ie, not in tune then the 16 levels will make a chromatic scale that will be out of tune as well. MPC does not correct pitch like melodyne, it just places samples with different pitches on each pad. So you will have make sure to be in tune from the start.
If you learn what chromatic means you would not ask this question op

damien907 wrote:for example, if i have a bass note that is a C and i use the 16 levels function will it lay out the sample across the pads to the scale with all the sharps and flats? or does it just pitch the samples up a bit kinda randomly?
thanks

All the notes on keyboard make up chromatic scale, so yes of course you get all the sharp notes in the western scale, if as I stated above the original tuning is correct. I wont go into natural intonation, thats when it gets a bit tricky. But with chromatic scale you can play in any key, just like on a piano.