Track mutes and loops...

I remember something being posted about this but couldn't find it. I'm hoping theres a setting or workaround I'm overlooking.

I'm in the track mute screen (or main and just muting/ un-muting tracks) triggering some 4 bar loops starting @ 001.001.001 but if I don't un-mute before the next cycle around, I'm screwed for the next 4 bars because there's no trigger/ no sound.

Is this pissing anyone else off real bad?

Help!

if you have a 4 bar loop why dont you just chop it into 16 pieces and play them in order? and if you thinkin "then it will sound choppy" thats NOT true! its easy to make 16 pieces sound like a normal loop. then your mutes will just mute certain chops.

im not at my mpc.. but i also think there's a way to make the mute "instant".. as in like. you can mute it after the sample starts playin. i dunno i never use it

I actually just loaded the old akai os and it does NOT do this.
Again: If your track is muted when the begining of your sequence rolls around, if you unmute your loop will NOT play again until the begining of the NEXT sequence.

I'll hit JJ up about this but maybe somebody with a better communication skills might be willing to as well.

Hope they can understand my retarded explaination of this:


Hello,

When muting a track in either the track mute screen or the main screen, if the track is muted when the beginning of the sequence loop plays again and you un-mute the track, the track will not play again until the beginning of the next sequence loop.

For example:

1. Load a 2 bar loop onto track 1.

2. Assign to a pad and trigger/ record the loop at 001.01.00.

3. Mute the loop either in track mute view, or from the main screen near the end of the sequence (002.03.00).

4. Un-mute the track AFTER 001.01.00 (001.02.00).

5. Track will not sound until the beginning of the NEXT sequence loop.

The original Akai OS does not behave this way and it needs to be corrected.
This is a very important feature to live performers.

Please e-mail with any questions or if you would like me to explain it better.

Thank you for all your great work. I hope this will be corrected in the next update.

Brandon Murphy
mpc-forums
[email protected]

it should be like a note on/off setting for the track mutes.

pad-ophiliac wrote:it should be like a note on/off setting for the track mutes.

You mean if JJ implements this? I think it should just not do this but if you want the option of it, more power to you.

King_Vitamin wrote:4. Un-mute the track AFTER 001.01.00 (001.02.00).

5. Track will not sound until the beginning of the NEXT sequence loop.

The original Akai OS does not behave this way and it needs to be corrected.
This is a very important feature to live performers.

what do you want it to do ?
what is the original akai os doing ?

enable the mixer events......record while in mixer screen while moving the volume for the pad you have the sound you want fade in or out or whatever.

BTW, every single other OS worked the same way with track mutes. It has to wait until the loop is cycled again.

ONE wrote:BTW, every single other OS worked the same way with track mutes. It has to wait until the loop is cycled again.

You're mistaken.

Just loaded the last Akai os and it works perfectly.

I have jj os and I can mute and and unmute in the middle of a loop- without waiting for bar 1-I don't know what your problem is, but I can tell you that it's possible-

JJ OS allowed mutes to be programmed into the step edit if you did so in the track mute screen while overdub is enabled.

Go into step edit and at the very beginning of your sequence add a track mute event OFF to make it un-mute the track with your sampled loop on it, that way when it loops back to the beginning, no matter what happens, the first thing the MPC will do is un-mute the track and your loop will be triggered.

Somewhere along the lines you (probably accidentally) programmed in a track mute event into the sequence. The reason it works in the AKAI OS is because these types of events are a JJ only feature.

Can be annoying when you don't realize what's happening, but once you do they can be really helpful to be able to program

thedvs01 wrote:JJ OS allowed mutes to be programmed into the step edit if you did so in the track mute screen while overdub is enabled.

Go into step edit and at the very beginning of your sequence add a track mute event OFF to make it un-mute the track with your sampled loop on it, that way when it loops back to the beginning, no matter what happens, the first thing the MPC will do is un-mute the track and your loop will be triggered.

Somewhere along the lines you (probably accidentally) programmed in a track mute event into the sequence. The reason it works in the AKAI OS is because these types of events are a JJ only feature.

Can be annoying when you don't realize what's happening, but once you do they can be really helpful to be able to program

That's a pretty nice feature, but i'm interested in performing mutes which this behavior does not allow you to with any confidence.

DirtyBird wrote:I have jj os and I can mute and and unmute in the middle of a loop- without waiting for bar 1-I don't know what your problem is, but I can tell you that it's possible-

Sorry I woke you up, go back to sleep now...

oops

King_Vitamin wrote:

thedvs01 wrote:JJ OS allowed mutes to be programmed into the step edit if you did so in the track mute screen while overdub is enabled.

Go into step edit and at the very beginning of your sequence add a track mute event OFF to make it un-mute the track with your sampled loop on it, that way when it loops back to the beginning, no matter what happens, the first thing the MPC will do is un-mute the track and your loop will be triggered.

Somewhere along the lines you (probably accidentally) programmed in a track mute event into the sequence. The reason it works in the AKAI OS is because these types of events are a JJ only feature.

Can be annoying when you don't realize what's happening, but once you do they can be really helpful to be able to program

That's a pretty nice feature, but i'm interested in performing mutes which this behavior does not allow you to with any confidence.

Man, read it again - I am trying to help you with how to solve your problem -- Step Edit