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By beatcrazy Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:43 am
What up people?Man it's been a while since I've been on here.Anyway,I need help..Can someone explain to me how to convert multiple seq. to a song and it plays correctly,I havent worried about it until now because I'm going to be recording soon.I've read the section in the manual a million times and I'm not understanding it,I'm slow I guess,lol,please help..I just thought of another question.Do I even need to convert to record? peace people... :D :D :)
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By Lampdog Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:42 am
Every seq's tracks ned to be the same.

seq1
trk1 = kick
trk2 = snr
trk4 = hhat
trk5 = openhh
etc.

seq2
trk1 = kick
trk2 = snr
trk4 = hhat
trk5 = openhh
etc.

seq3
trk1 = kick
trk2 = snr
trk4 = hhat
trk5 = openhh
etc.


Then chain those seq's together in song mode.
MPC will ONLY read the trak assignments for the first trak in songmode, that's
why you make all the trks in each seq line up the way I stated earlier.

MANY samplers in song mode work the SAME way....
By beatcrazy Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:17 pm
Thanks Lamp :mrgreen: .One more question.What if there are extra tracks in say,seq 2&3 that are not in seq 1 do I add those tracks to seq 1 even though they aren't used in seq 1? :D 8)
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By DJ Hellfire Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:09 am
beatcrazy wrote:Thanks Lamp :mrgreen: .One more question.What if there are extra tracks in say,seq 2&3 that are not in seq 1 do I add those tracks to seq 1 even though they aren't used in seq 1? :D 8)



Just leave them, they will transfer over to the song and will play when the song mode reaches that sequence. Just if you use the same sounds in every sequence keep them on the same tracks like lamp said. If you use a sound in one sequence and not the other, make sure the sound is not on the same track number as a diffetent sound in another sequence.

Go into song mode, go over to the right column and add a sequence. Then select the amount of repititions you want that sequence to play before it switches to the next sequence. Example, you have a song with an 8 bar intro, 3 16 bar verses, and hooks before and after each verse. The hook part of the beat has a change up in it that is different from the verses. Your Intro sequence is 4 bars, your hook sequence is 8 bars, your verse sequence is 4 bars, and as your outro you let the verse sequence rock for 8 bars after the last hook. This is how your song mode setup should look:

Step..........Sequence.........Reps...............Tempo.............Bars
1................Intro.................1....................89.5.................4
2................Hook.................1....................89.5................12
3................Verse................4....................89.5................28
4................Hook.................1....................89.5................36
5................Verse................4....................89.5................52
6................Hook.................1....................89.5................60
7................Verse................4....................89.5................76
8................Hook.................1....................89.5................84
9................Verse(outro).......2....................89.5................92