By ChaseDJ
Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:08 pm
I have had this problem for weeks, searched everywhere read everything watched every video, i think it just a setting i have wrong or something because i have everything hooked up right. Below should explain my problem exactly well enough, so if anyone could PLEASE Just tell mehow to do this i will do anything, ill give you samples vynils i dont care at this point i just need to be able to do this otherwise ill never get better at making beats, i cant use midi properly and get my MPC to play fantom sounds in sequences, PLEASE help !! read below for what ive done and where im at i guess.
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OK i have a mpc 1000, roland fantom x6, big mixer, monitors...
so how can i make sequences on my MPC with fantom sounds playing? is there no way to do this i just need an external recorder? or do i need audio cables to get the audio that the keyboard is playing too? i want to be able to do drums on mpc and then have riffs on keyboard and be able to sequence it ALL in MPC so i can arrange them in song mode to make full length songs. The only thigng im not getting is how i can actually get my MPC to save and play the roland fantom sounds in its sequences and be able to pull it up without it just sounding like piano or something ya know? thanks!
Also if there is a way to maybe combine the fantom loop and mpc loop into a wav and import it to my comp and then i could sequence it on FruityLoops? i think it would be easier to just use the hardware but if i could just figure out how to make them actually "sync" together i guess, you know have em all the sounds (including fantoms) on one sequence on my MPC ,then i could go into song mode and play a full length song using MPC and keyboard noises, all i owuld need is a recorder, so if anyone could help me out with this id really appreciate it.
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Q. How do I connect my keyboard/synth to the MPC1000 and how do I control the sounds of my keyboard?
A. Connect the MIDI Out of the keyboard to the MIDI In 1 of the MPC1000 and the MIDI Out A of the MPC1000 to the MIDI In of your keyboard.
Set your keyboard to LOCAL OFF.
On the MPC1000, Mode: MIDI/SYNC, MIDI tab, set "Active Track Receive Channel" to ALL and "Soft Thru" to AS TRACK. After that, your keyboard will play the same sounds as the pads, i.e. whatever is set on the selected Track. The MIDI field of the selected sequence Track, on the Main page, controls where you direct the MIDI output from that Track. You can use this in combination with the Program field, so one Track can control both the MPC1000 sampler and/or an external synth. To automatically select sounds on your synth, you can embed Program Changes in a sequence by recording them or using the Step Edit Insert command.
Of course, this only covers the MIDI data, not audio. To hear both the sound from the MPC1000 sampler and from your keyboard, the audio outputs of both units should be connected to a mixing board.
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Ok i did that, i put it on those settings ok, and now i cant hear my keyboard at all no matter what key i press or anything, just the MPC, does the keyboard have to be a slave or master? How can i get my keyboard sounds to play in MPC sequences?
and even up there it says this only converts the midi data, not audio, im trying to get it so i can sequence whole songs on my mpc with multiple sequences using different keyboard sounds. Is this even possible? been goin at it for weeks and it seems like i cant even do this, but i mean there has to be how else am i gonna make friggin songs! im sick of having to use one sequence because i cant use different keyboard sounds please help!
i know someone knows how to do this, and if i could just figure out how to do this one tihng you dont know how much it would step my game up, like i got chorus's and verse's and stuff but i cant put them together because everytime i wanna change the beat i got to load up another song on my fantom and just play them together through mixer, until i get an audio recorder so i can record what my mixer is hearing , how can i sequence the fantom and mpc together on the mpc using keyboard sounds and ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE KEYBOARD SOUNDS.
any help would be greatly appreciated this is getting kind of frustrating and id really like to be able to make full length songs bt until i can use my keyboard sounds and save them in sequences on my mpc im going to have to do it sepereate. ill throw someone 20 vynils if they can help me do this lol please ive tried the manual every site every forum I CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS AAAH!!
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OK i have a mpc 1000, roland fantom x6, big mixer, monitors...
so how can i make sequences on my MPC with fantom sounds playing? is there no way to do this i just need an external recorder? or do i need audio cables to get the audio that the keyboard is playing too? i want to be able to do drums on mpc and then have riffs on keyboard and be able to sequence it ALL in MPC so i can arrange them in song mode to make full length songs. The only thigng im not getting is how i can actually get my MPC to save and play the roland fantom sounds in its sequences and be able to pull it up without it just sounding like piano or something ya know? thanks!
Also if there is a way to maybe combine the fantom loop and mpc loop into a wav and import it to my comp and then i could sequence it on FruityLoops? i think it would be easier to just use the hardware but if i could just figure out how to make them actually "sync" together i guess, you know have em all the sounds (including fantoms) on one sequence on my MPC ,then i could go into song mode and play a full length song using MPC and keyboard noises, all i owuld need is a recorder, so if anyone could help me out with this id really appreciate it.
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I did this ----
quote:
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Q. How do I connect my keyboard/synth to the MPC1000 and how do I control the sounds of my keyboard?
A. Connect the MIDI Out of the keyboard to the MIDI In 1 of the MPC1000 and the MIDI Out A of the MPC1000 to the MIDI In of your keyboard.
Set your keyboard to LOCAL OFF.
On the MPC1000, Mode: MIDI/SYNC, MIDI tab, set "Active Track Receive Channel" to ALL and "Soft Thru" to AS TRACK. After that, your keyboard will play the same sounds as the pads, i.e. whatever is set on the selected Track. The MIDI field of the selected sequence Track, on the Main page, controls where you direct the MIDI output from that Track. You can use this in combination with the Program field, so one Track can control both the MPC1000 sampler and/or an external synth. To automatically select sounds on your synth, you can embed Program Changes in a sequence by recording them or using the Step Edit Insert command.
Of course, this only covers the MIDI data, not audio. To hear both the sound from the MPC1000 sampler and from your keyboard, the audio outputs of both units should be connected to a mixing board.
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Ok i did that, i put it on those settings ok, and now i cant hear my keyboard at all no matter what key i press or anything, just the MPC, does the keyboard have to be a slave or master? How can i get my keyboard sounds to play in MPC sequences?
and even up there it says this only converts the midi data, not audio, im trying to get it so i can sequence whole songs on my mpc with multiple sequences using different keyboard sounds. Is this even possible? been goin at it for weeks and it seems like i cant even do this, but i mean there has to be how else am i gonna make friggin songs! im sick of having to use one sequence because i cant use different keyboard sounds please help!
i know someone knows how to do this, and if i could just figure out how to do this one tihng you dont know how much it would step my game up, like i got chorus's and verse's and stuff but i cant put them together because everytime i wanna change the beat i got to load up another song on my fantom and just play them together through mixer, until i get an audio recorder so i can record what my mixer is hearing , how can i sequence the fantom and mpc together on the mpc using keyboard sounds and ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE KEYBOARD SOUNDS.
any help would be greatly appreciated this is getting kind of frustrating and id really like to be able to make full length songs bt until i can use my keyboard sounds and save them in sequences on my mpc im going to have to do it sepereate. ill throw someone 20 vynils if they can help me do this lol please ive tried the manual every site every forum I CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS AAAH!!
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