By mineralman
Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:01 pm
Can an MPC 500 do this?
We are a small 3 piece band that play using 3 synths, a Yamaha csx1, Micro Korg, and an Alesis Micron along with a Boss 505 groove workstation/ drum machine. We are all from a more traditional instrument background, guitars, bass, drums etc, so we are very much learning as we go along. At first we would use basic beats from the Boss and play the other instruments over the top, using midi sync for arrpegiators etc.
However we have increasingly been turning to LOGIC to create our backing tracks and drums beats as we find it a far more immediate and creative tool. Only thing is our backing tracks are now becoming more complex. The problem then becomes playing them live.
We don't have enough hands between us to play with the drum machine on stage, so we have been chopping up our Logic compositions into segments and loading them onto the Boss as patterns to build the songs. That way we can basically press 'play', and play along, but still be able to sync our keyboards to the midi signal coming from the Boss. However that process is incredibly time consuming, and you are limited to a pattern of 8 measures in length on the Boss. It take hours and hours to transport the backing tracks onto it, and then if you want to make any changes to the song you have to start again.
So far our best solution is to have laptop onstage playing the logic sequences and sending a midi sync using a USB-Midi converter. However we are trying to get away from having to rely a computer onstage, as the only laptop we can use for this we have to borrow from somebody else.
With a MPC 500 can you load in a bounced down song from logic in it's entirety (as a .wav) as a sample? So you can play it back and still output a midi sync clock, so we can still play along live with arrpegiators etc?
We are a small 3 piece band that play using 3 synths, a Yamaha csx1, Micro Korg, and an Alesis Micron along with a Boss 505 groove workstation/ drum machine. We are all from a more traditional instrument background, guitars, bass, drums etc, so we are very much learning as we go along. At first we would use basic beats from the Boss and play the other instruments over the top, using midi sync for arrpegiators etc.
However we have increasingly been turning to LOGIC to create our backing tracks and drums beats as we find it a far more immediate and creative tool. Only thing is our backing tracks are now becoming more complex. The problem then becomes playing them live.
We don't have enough hands between us to play with the drum machine on stage, so we have been chopping up our Logic compositions into segments and loading them onto the Boss as patterns to build the songs. That way we can basically press 'play', and play along, but still be able to sync our keyboards to the midi signal coming from the Boss. However that process is incredibly time consuming, and you are limited to a pattern of 8 measures in length on the Boss. It take hours and hours to transport the backing tracks onto it, and then if you want to make any changes to the song you have to start again.
So far our best solution is to have laptop onstage playing the logic sequences and sending a midi sync using a USB-Midi converter. However we are trying to get away from having to rely a computer onstage, as the only laptop we can use for this we have to borrow from somebody else.
With a MPC 500 can you load in a bounced down song from logic in it's entirety (as a .wav) as a sample? So you can play it back and still output a midi sync clock, so we can still play along live with arrpegiators etc?
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