Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
By scatterrat4 Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:41 pm
I would like to be able to change the start bar in song mode of the sequences so that I can control when they start and there fore enabling me to play two sequences simutaneously and allowing them to over lap help me please, what am I not gettting this is not covered in the manual!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :evil:

By Altopiano Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:14 am
hy scatterat4!

me too bor! ... therefore my advice: stop searchin this feature in hte manuals since you won't find it and start hopin that it gets implemented in a future os update! ... sad but true!

currently you can play seq simultaneously somehow from main page! ... i haven't used it often! go to the bottom of the main screen and in simul play set the seq/song you want to play with the seq you're workin on!

sorry bro ... i know its not the answer you expected! ... well, at least it saved you're time searchin for the feature!

and another advice (its my personal workaround shyt): a lot of "useless" copy, cut and paste!

and another one: have fun with your 4k! its still a great unit!

peace and :lol:

alto
By scatterrat4 Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:24 am
thank alto piano I figured that was probably the case but I was thinking maybe you could make a short 1 bar loop and then just add the amount of bar you need for your other piece I dunno just a thought

By Altopiano Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:42 pm
actually there are several workarounds! dunno whether you know the copy bars one already! if you have for example a 1 bar drum loop and a 16 bars bass loop you could go to your 1 bar one, scroll with your cursor over the bars field, press the window button, scroll over to copy and copy 15 copies of it after your bar and then layer over it on another track your 16 bar bass loop! hope that helps

alto