Forum to discuss all matters relating to the MPC1000 and MPC2500 operating systems created by 'JJ' (all versions).
By innovine Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:04 pm
I would like to use Next Seq screen and while holding down Sudden, play on the pads and record this into a song or new sequence..
Any ideas how to do this, or achieve something similar?

I have a bunch of short sequences set up, and I like rearranging them on the fly, using Sudden. I am not doing this with audio and chops as some of the sequence is midi to an external synth. If it's not possible to record sequence changing like this, could I maybe do something like convert a sequence into a pattern, and trigger patterns and record that? I don't know so much about patterns...

My sequences are made up of basic drum tracks triggering samples in programs, and also some midi tracks triggering external gear. Typically 5-6 tracks in total.
By Jamon Sat Sep 01, 2012 3:29 am
A pattern is just a phrase of events on a track. If you have a drum track with a program, and play the pattern on that track, you hear the drum samples. If you set that track to be MIDI out, then you hear your synth.

If you had a pattern that had a synth melody, it has to be triggered on the track that has the MIDI out to the synth. You can't mix them. You can't have a pattern that contains some drum program triggers, and some for the MIDI. It's all or nothing.

If you had drum program on track 1, and synth MIDI out on track 2, you could go to track 1, trigger a drum pattern to start looping, then go to track 2 and trigger a bassline. Then you've got a drum beat, and bass looping. To switch bass melody now, you press the pad currently looping, to turn it off, and the new one you want to loop, at the same time. The drums are still playing, and you have a new bassline going.

But none of that is recorded. It's all live, and you can't switch up groups of things together at once like a sequence, because it's all individual tracks.

So patterns are out.

If you don't mind the sequences not starting from the beginning when you switch, you can use track mutes. Make your sequences, then make a new MIX sequence, and copy all your tracks over to that one. Then go to track mute, and if you had 4 tracks per sequence, you could have 4 sequences on a bank, and press 4 pads with each hand to switch, while recording it.

If you sampled each sequence, including synths, to a stereo .wav, then you could have each sequence on a .wav, then you could assign them to pads with MONO voices, so you could just switch all you want while recording and even being able to use timing correct.

Otherwise, you just have to forget about recording as events, and just hook up an audio recorder to the outputs and record the actual audio of your performance.