Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
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By SlimCutta08 Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:35 am
You hear today is some beatz how they have say for example a hi hat that has two or three different tempo's that follow each other.. Now I know exactly how to do it on fruity loops and reason because drums are simple to create on those programs, but I'm tryin to do this on the Mpc 4000 this time and I've tried while recording a track to hit the note repeat and notice that it change the tempo of the entire sequence. any suggestion on how I do this...
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By AWW_NAWW Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:58 am
never had that problem but try running to seq at one time. the first seq should be your main beat and the second one should be you note repeate seq. Play with the tempo on the second one to see if its the 4k thats off or if it its just you.

By MaZe Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:35 pm
Each one of your High Hat tracks must be recorded at a different Time SIG. What you hear in the songs you are listening to are mostly base 16 hats with 16 1/3 or 1/32 support hats.

Track 1 should be recorded into the MPC at 1/16 time sig with the note repeat on

Track 2 should be recroded into the MPC at 16 1/3 with not repeat on.

This way you will hear the base 16 hats but some nice rolling hats in the back.

MaZe

By wax111 Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:20 pm
Also be aware that you can change the TC (quantize) rate whle recording, which changes the speed at which the note repeats; You can get cool hi hat and snare figures that way too...Trigger a note repeat, hold down the pad, and change the TC value...You'll see what I mean.
Which is why, in a future update, I hope akai allows the TC values to be accessed by the numeric keypad when the cursor is on the TC field; It would be very cool to hold down a repeating pad and change the TC value from 1/32(3) to 1/8 swing time....
Cheers, Jeremy
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By SlimCutta08 Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:01 pm
I appreciate the input and the help....