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By AMG Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:04 am
Can someone explain how to count these or actually know the note numbers??? I wanna get a good feel/swing aorund 93 BPM, as of now the results that I'm getting are to robotic! And what notes actually "swing" when it's applied?
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By binger0 Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:50 am
aight the mpcs metronome goes at 1/4 time. So thats 1 2 3 4. The 1/8 would sound like this 1 e 2 e 3 e 4 e =1/8.
1/16 nots are like
1 e and 2 e and 3 e and 4 e and
get what im sayin say these lines out loud.
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By Cheech Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:57 am
set the tempo to whatever you want and the timing to 1/16. make sure you're on track 1, and Press REC. Hold note repeat and press a pad that has -for example- a hihat sound in it. Now the sound will repeat itself at 1/16.

Now change to track two and record the kick pattern. Once it is playing back the mpc will move the kick notes to the nearest 1/16, so it might sound a little robotic. Now stop the beat, move your cursor into the timing and press open window. Now you can apply swing to the bass drum. if you want that premier-esque "lazy" swing, put the swing on later and increase the percent and the value a little bit, and then hit DO IT. It's better to start out with small numbers, and if you feel that you need a little more swing, then just increase the numbers and try again.

(But remember ALWAYS after applying swing, go to the timing screen and turn everything back to normal. But don't press DO IT, press the main screen button. Otherwise the swing will carry on to the next track. The reason for this is that when you go back to record on the next track it is better to start from scratch and then add the swing if it is needed.)

Then just put a snare on track three and record it and maybe add a little swing to it as well.

And remember that if you apply the same amount of swing to each instrument, then there will be no other instruments to compare them to so there will be no swing between them.. if you move each sound two ticks forward then it will sound exactly the same, but it's just going to start two ticks later..