Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
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By alpha80 Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:02 am
^Well, apparently those posts were either deleted or moved... :?

But besides 128poly @44k, the smaller do-able things:


1. Realtime chop and assign per tapped pad:
http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic....t=slice+points

2. Able to extend sequences tick by tick
(maybe there's a work around I've yet to find?)
3. Realtime timestrech on designated "Loop" tracks
4. 16 levels of Panning R/L
5. Recorded track mutes in song mode

ANother feature I've been missing on a sampler forever:

6. "Quasi-monophonic release envelope trigger"
Imagine playing a complex keygroup with all zones set to one-shot, in a monophonic setting that isn't real monophonic or mute groups...

...it's 2+-voice, with the most recently played voice triggering all the specified release settings for all the previously played voice's zones...

...Feel me ?
This been missing from samplers since their inception.
Maybe I'm one of the few MF's that has alot of keygroups with all zones set on one-shot...
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By DeeSprm Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:11 pm
i think i heard that you can plug for example fender rhodes or guitar straight to the 4000 and record it ? is that true... ?!
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By feline1 Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:32 pm
DeeSprm wrote:i think i heard that you can plug for example fender rhodes or guitar straight to the 4000 and record it ? is that true... ?!


Only if you switch it on first.
HINT: you need to play the Fender Rhodes keyboard or strum the guitar as well, otherwise it might not make a sound. This is the sound of knowledge only Pros know about
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By feline1 Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:33 pm
no ssl yet wrote:Feline if you go through all the manuals and list the pages you want from each in order I'll edit the PDFs and make one big edited manual.

EDIT: I see someone already mentioned acrobat before I read the whole thread.


It doesn't work like that, you need to add sentences here and there, delete some stuff, modify other stuff.
And update all the cross-links.
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By DeeSprm Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:00 pm
feline1 wrote:
DeeSprm wrote:i think i heard that you can plug for example fender rhodes or guitar straight to the 4000 and record it ? is that true... ?!


Only if you switch it on first.
HINT: you need to play the Fender Rhodes keyboard or strum the guitar as well, otherwise it might not make a sound. This is the sound of knowledge only Pros know about


youre funny :lol: or not... you didnt get my point at all though... but yeah thanks for your advice, no wonder i havent done any music in last 10 years... ive been thinking that maybe i should put my mpc on before i can make music but i havent had the guts to do it... thanks !