Erase a track's sequence only?

Hi,

I could not find any precise answer to my question while browsing the forum and using the "search tool", so I post it as a new thread

My question is quite simple:

Is it possible to erase a "track's sequence" only, i.e., deleting all events from a track, but keeping the track's params (program, midi assignation, midi PC, etc.), so as to be able to record something else with the same sounds, either mpc's samples or midi device?

I could not find any way to do this, "sequence delete" deletes ALL info in the sequence, 'track delete" delets ALL info on that track...

any tip will be welcome

cheers

use the erase key.

ok,

I'll check it when in front of the unit, I have not used this erase button yet

I may also have forgotten to explore the "event features", there may be a kind of "erase events" feature somewhere...

I know ... ... RTFM is the way, but as JJ OS XL seems soooooo different than akai's, I can't really trust the official manual, and JJ OSes "manual" is everything but a comprehensible manual IMHO...

So I'm just learning the unit/os from scratch with XL, and I don't really know what is a typical "akai mpc question" and a typical "JJ OS mpc question"...


thanks for the input

cheers

Just erase the events and don't touch to the seq or program parameters.

PEace

supamonsta wrote: everything but a comprehensible manual IMHO...

You must not have made music in the 90's

Put your work in homie. JJ's manual has plenty of screenshots so that helps. There are things that JJ has not changed (and thus are not explained in his manuals) so you will need the Akai manual for that. An example would be the erase button feature.

Me personally, I'd prefer JJ spend his time coding, as opposed to writing manuals. But I can understand how JJ OS would be daunting, especially to someone who is also new to MPCs in general.

ok then back to RTFAM ("A" for "Akai")

and then deeper into JJ's

You must not have made music in the 90's

got interested in electronic music in around 1995

Me personally, I'd prefer JJ spend his time coding, as opposed to writing manuals.

Absolutely, but he perhap's could hire a good translator for cheap on this job??? (not asking for a detailed manual, but at least one or two real sentences here and there )

anyway I do love this stuff and the way it is alive and evolving!

cheers

Haha someone must bring Stan Steez back

supamonsta wrote:ok then back to RTFAM ("A" for "Akai")

and then deeper into JJ's

You must not have made music in the 90's

got interested in electronic music in around 1995

Oh no dis intended, it was just a reference to the horrible manuals of the era...

supamonsta wrote:

Me personally, I'd prefer JJ spend his time coding, as opposed to writing manuals.

Absolutely, but he perhap's could hire a good translator for cheap on this job??? (not asking for a detailed manual, but at least one or two real sentences here and there )

anyway I do love this stuff and the way it is alive and evolving!

cheers

Yeah I hear you, but like those 90's manuals, you kind of get used to 'JJinglish'... Either that or you learn to 'read' the screenshots or spend an inordinate amount of time here. Anyway, you'll be glad in time that you chose JJ! Sometimes inspiring, occasionally frustrating, but always exciting!

supamonsta wrote:but he perhap's could hire a good translator for cheap on this job???

i don't know, i kind of like his 'truck' mixers.

indeed guys, I often find me laughing while staring at JJ online manual...

for now I get into specific features as soon as I meet the need when playing with the new "toy", it's much more easy to learn this way,

thanks for your support,

and long life to JJ

A sequence has multiple tracks, but a track does not have any sequences.

Albeit a track has a 'sequence of events', this isn't what an MPC user would consider a sequence.

I understand the reasoning behind not wanting to read the manual, but it will really help you get grounded in the lingo and terminology that people use around here. Yes JJ added a boatload of features, but the fundamentals are still right there in the manual.

Honestly, I think you'll ask better questions and get better help if you make the effort. Saying "Hey I read about feature xyz in the manual and don't know how to do it in JJOS" will get you much further than "I want to do stuff that I can't explain to you how to do or what it is". It isn't that people here are lazy or don't want to help you, but you stick around enough and you'll see plenty of questions that yeah you can guess what the person wants, but it's a shot in the dark if you can really solve their problem. Or worse, you give them the solution and because they didn't put in the effort they don't understand how to take that knowledge and move forward.

Peace!

NearTao

I perfectly understand your point,

I guess I have learnt the terminology, but not yet totally assimilated, since I still have "3rd party" reflexes as this one with the "track's sequences of events" way of thinking (rm1x, live...)...

I'll pass some times learning better and practicing a bit much before asking for help

cheers