Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
By kokac Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:27 pm
Hi there,i have the MPC500 for 3 months and i love it,I'm a musician,playing lot's of instrument but this is a new way for me for creating music and it's very,very playful,i can get enough of it. So this is my question, is there any way to write down what i do in real time so i can write something for let's say piano,violin and MPC or i have to think something that will work for me?

Thanks.
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By bicedidit Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:36 pm
i think ur asking for a program to turn ur music/beats into musical notation?

if so, i do not remember the name of the program, but i have seem something simliar to what u are rrequesting in the past
By kokac Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:58 pm
Not really,there is a way to write down beats, i want to find out if there is a way to write down what a play on my MPC,say i have some strange noises on my twelve pads and i want to play them randomly and then write that somehow so i can do the same thing again with other instrument playing with me.
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By Ill-Green Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:54 pm
I use to have this system of writing beats by hand. It was a chart really. On top horizontally, would be the bars and on vertically on the left hand side would be the twelve pads. So it would look something like this:

1 2 3 4-1 2 3 4
P.1 x x x
P.2 x x x x x
P.3 x x x
P.4 x

The Ps would be the pad number and usually I would write the name of the sound next to them. The numbers on top are the time measures, and every count of 4 is one bar, this way I can remember the exact pad and timing of the sound.

Complicated to some, but if you create your own chart, you'll know your own system. :mrgreen:
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By MeSoHordey Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:12 pm
Wouldn't you just send the midi data into a notation program like Sibelius?
By kokac Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:22 am
At the end that is what i did,I'm working with Finale actually, I put a number of the pad bank at the beginning of the bar and then put the numbers of the pads under the notes and if you have some sequences along with a beat or something you write above the bars.