effects?

whats going on everyone? got myself a little bother. i have layed my drum beat in seuence1,track1,pgm1 and have applied some compression(FX1) and reverb(FX2). I have sent the desired pads through the effects. Now i want to add some melody to it. ive recorded my piano and assigned it to the pads. i wish to apply some effects to the piano but when i change the effects it changes the sound of my drum beat. my piano is in sequence1,track2,pgm2. do i need to put the piano in a seperate sequence away from the drums? if so how do i get both sequences to play at the same time? i have read the manual and are not trying to take short cuts so experienced mpc users have patients.

The 2500 has 2 FXs. All the programs must share these effects. Changing one effect will change the sound of all samples/programs that are routed to that respective FX.

[quote="jahrome"]The 2500 has 2 FXs. All the programs must share these effects. Changing one effect will change the sound of all samples/programs that are routed to that respective FX.[/quote]

so how do i go about giving my piano different effects than my drums in a way i can put them both together?

You have to assign your drums in one program to FX1 and your keys in another program to FX2.

Another method is to add effects to your drums and then resample the drums. Then you will be able to free up FXs for other samples/programs.

cheers!

Still another method (for the advanced ) is to define different effect sets (in the "Select" tab in Effects Mode). Then you can enter an "Effect Select" event into your sequence manually (Step Edit) to select one of these effect sets. That's if you absolutely, positively need to be flexible with all the effect settings.


Cheers,
Stilo.

An even more advanced function is to forget the 2500s sub-par/par effects and apply them when you record into a DAW