Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
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By AleksKlax Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:35 pm
Normally when working on the MPC I like to work on just one project at a time. I hate having to sort through samples, programs etc. that aren't related to what I am currently working on but were previously loaded into memory. Because of this, about 99% of time I clear memory before I load anything (only exception is loading individual samples)

Is there a setting or workaround to streamline this process? Ideally a setting that automatically clears memory whenever I load something.
By rogue scrunt Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:55 pm
AleksKlax wrote:Normally when working on the MPC I like to work on just one project at a time. I hate having to sort through samples, programs etc. that aren't related to what I am currently working on but were previously loaded into memory. Because of this, about 99% of time I clear memory before I load anything (only exception is loading individual samples)

Is there a setting or workaround to streamline this process? Ideally a setting that automatically clears memory whenever I load something.



yes
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By crossings Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:23 pm
turn on your mpc... either save the blank state it's in right away or set it up to how you normally start out [setting a BPM, maybe chromatically assigning pads, whatever]... then save that blank template... give it a name that'll make it float to the top of the list... a folder name like 000BLANK or something... when you want to start fresh, just load that blank template and press the CLEAR button when loading.