Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
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By dablunt Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:39 pm
hi.

is there a way to record velocity changes?

im thinking either with the sliders or with the volume next to the track select field?

it'd be nice to see the standard MIDI CC's added to the options you can select from in the Sliders section. velo, pan, cutoff, res etc (for MIDI)
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By Rozzer Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:24 pm
There's no way to change the velocity of notes AFTER recording (unless you do them one by one).

During recording, you have a few options:

1. '16 Levels' assigned to velocity
2. Note Repeat - esnure 'Full Level' is OFF, and use the pads pressure to vary the velocity.
3. (my prefered method) - just get it right to begin with ;)

I too would like to see midi cc# for the Q-Link assignment. Q-Link on Akai's Z-series samplers has them. Why can't we?

:)

By _Stilo_ Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:33 pm
Rozzer wrote:There's no way to change the velocity of notes AFTER recording (unless you do them one by one).

Isn't that what the AFTER key is for? :D


But I think dablunt was referring to recording a whole track's velocity at once. That's not that easy indeed.

By ucacjbs Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:19 pm
I have a 1K which does the below, so I think that the 2K5 must also be able to do either:

(1) mixer volume automation

(2) sequence edit to re-scale velocities to all notes, or add(subtract) an offset to particular note velocities for parts (or all) of a sequence

By _Stilo_ Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:01 am
ucacjbs wrote:I have a 1K which does the below, so I think that the 2K5 must also be able to do either:

(1) mixer volume automation

Yes, that works with the 2500, but is kinda tricky to do. Cause if you record the mixer levels (you can even pull down the whole pad bank with the slider that way :D ), it leaves the volumes at that level when you stop the sequence. So if you pull the volume down, the next time you restart the sequence it will play on that low volume.

Anybody messing around a bit more with Mixer automation? What cool things can you do with it? :D
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By dablunt Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:30 am
You should def be able assign CC's then.

The way I do it at the moment is, I rec the sequence and change the level on the midi hardware which the MPC can record in. If you have the midi cables setup ok.

But I would like onboard control on the MPC for next OS.

p.s. mixer automation is only for samples what are onboard the MPC. It doesnt send midi velo changes. So that isnt relevant in this thread!! :shock:

:wink:

By _Stilo_ Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:57 am
dablunt wrote:p.s. mixer automation is only for samples what are onboard the MPC. It doesnt send midi velo changes. So that isnt relevant in this thread!! :shock:

Well, you didn't mention you were talking about external MIDI devices in your first post.

By _Stilo_ Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:01 am
It wasn't clear that was referring to the initial question...

By the way..anything inside the MPC is MIDI :wink:

By _Stilo_ Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:38 am
Hey, no offence :D

But yea, the Q-Links should be able to control all sorts of CC's and effects settings.