Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
By JoshB. Tue Oct 14, 2025 11:12 am
Hello

I am bumping on a issue to achieve true polyrhythm on my mpc 2500.
So I have the free version 3.13.
I love to find a (hands on practical) way to do. That is to play within one sequence separate drum tracks that have different tsig with also different bar lengths on same bpm.

Something like this
3:2 Polyrhythm (Triplet groove over straight 4/4)
Kick: X---X---X---X---
Hat(3): X--X--X--X--X-- (3-beat cycle)

5:4 Polyrhythm (5-beat loop over 4/4 grid)
Kick: X---X---X---X---
Stab: X----X----X----X---- (5-beat repetition)

7:8 or 7:16 Polyrhythm (short loop offset from 4/4 grid)
Kick: X---X---X---X---
Rim(7): X--X-X--X--X-- (7/16 loop)

Do I need to buy the jjosxl2 to achieve this?
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By hyena Sat Oct 18, 2025 7:23 am
nope, neither the free jjos nor jjos2xl allow you to have different track lengths, so the only way to simulate this is create a very long sequence and manually create those different timings for each pad (sorry just woke up need more coffee, but i think you get my point)