Forum to discuss all matters relating to the MPC1000 and MPC2500 operating systems created by 'JJ' (all versions).
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By rychus907 Fri May 25, 2007 3:15 pm
Does anyone know if its possible to set the the swing from 50% to 0
while using 1/16 or any other time correction?

By ejectorset Fri May 25, 2007 3:54 pm
the way i have always understood it 50% = no swing. so that is "off".
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By bees80 Fri May 25, 2007 3:58 pm
50 % is off indeed...
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By JACOB of DURBAN Fri May 25, 2007 4:00 pm
A quick question... Swing does push everything to the right? right?
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By Antonym Fri May 25, 2007 4:17 pm
no, that's shift timing.

swing pushes the upbeat later based on a silly percentage that should just be ticks instead of percentages but there you go
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By thedvs01 Sat May 26, 2007 1:08 am
so 50% is no swing? I never knew that, I figured that the MPC's all had a built in swing and 50% was just the lowest, but it's none eh?

What percentage do you guys find yourself using most often?
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By parkerlewis Sat May 26, 2007 1:52 am
yeah 50 means 'no swing'

above 70 and you're getting into that freaky madlib swing feel, but most classic swing hip hop (premo/etc) is probably 65-68 I'm guessing. Only had my mpc for 1 week, but that's the way I hear it.

so quaver swing (1/8) pushes the 2nd 4th 6th and 8th quavers back a bit depending on your percentage.
semi quaver swing 1/16 will push back the 2nd 4th 6th 8th...12th...16th semi-quavers back a tad.
The 1st 3rd 5th .....7th...13th etc will remain quantized on the count.