Song-Mode problem

hi guys

i had a little problem with the song-mode in the past days... it just works for the first sequence. the other sequences i´d assign are muted. don´t know why that is so... it worked for more than a year. the params are set the right way i guess and cant find what is wrong... bug? i would be thankful for help!


ps: i´d noticed that my english sucks

Try these two things.

1 - If your sequence is in LOOP MODE...Hold MODE and then OTHER (pad #8). Scroll to "Truncate Dura" and set it to "As Played" or "Sequence Length". That lets the sample play even if the sequence loop ends and doesn't cut off anything.

OR

2 - In Program mode, set the Voice Overlap to POLY.

Let us know what happens.

Hey Ill-Green!
I have the exact same problem with my mpc500. It was working just fine for 2 years now and suddenly that happens. It's been 4 days that I'm trying to convert a song to a sequence and after the first sequence everything gets muted. Though, in the song mode it plays correctly.
I tried your suggestions but nothing happened. Do you have any other solution?? I'm desperate....

Wow, I was surprised to see I answered this thread, then I saw it was a year ago

The art of converting sequences into a song, is to put your samples on the same tracks. So if Sequence1 has kicks on track 1, snares on track 2 and guitars on track 3, but Sequence2 has snares on track 1, guitars on track 2 and kicks on track 3, then that will cause problems like you have. You have to have your samples they way you tracked them in the main sequence, so kicks stay on track 1, snares stay on track 2 and guitars stay on track 3 and it'll all connect. But if you do it all on one track, then you have to go to OTHER mode and adjust how the Sequence loops.

But explain more how are you recording these sequences to get an image of your workflow using the 500.

I'm surprised too that you answered. I thought I was just hopeless. And definately I wasn't waiting for an answer and especially that fast.
So, first of all thank you.

I don't think that's my issue cause I'm working with the same program(one I made myself) for the whole song. The whole song has 20 tracks and all of them are using the same program.

And also I use only the main sequence by copying it to the next parts of the song without changing anything inside the sequences except muting and staff.

I've converted a song to a sequence many times before, and it was working perfectly. I don't know what's happening with that specific sequence. I've been trying to solve the mystery constantly for the last 72 hours. I think I'm having a nervous breakdown...

alkgone wrote:I'm surprised too that you answered. I thought I was just hopeless. And definately I wasn't waiting for an answer and especially that fast.
So, first of all thank you.

I don't think that's my issue cause I'm working with the same program(one I made myself) for the whole song. The whole song has 20 tracks and all of them are using the same program.

And also I use only the main sequence by copying it to the next parts of the song without changing anything inside the sequences except muting and staff.

I've converted a song to a sequence many times before, and it was working perfectly. I don't know what's happening with that specific sequence. I've been trying to solve the mystery constantly for the last 72 hours. I think I'm having a nervous breakdown...

Ok, so they all chain up nicely in Song Mode but converting it to a long sequence is when it fouls up, right? Are these 20 tracks on every sequence or some sequences have 10 and another 15? Its details like that that affect the conversion as well as the sample parameters in Program Mode. So if your first sequence began with 20 tracks and each sample to a track, then the rest must follow the steps of that first sequence. When copy the sequence, do you rename them as well? That helps too. Instead of muting tracks, try to go into Step Edit Mode and just remove the parts you want muted and leave those blank.

Other than that, Converting songs to a sequence is always a head-cracker because one little thing can mess up the whole track. I tend to record a whole song on one sequence of 99 bars with massive overdubbing. But take that as a last option.

Yes, during song mode it plays totally fine. The conversion ruins the whole thing.

All of the sequences have the same tracks yes. Cause it's only copies of the main sequence that i use and assign to the next parts of the song. I try renaming but it doesn't fix the probelm.

The only thing I got to observe through yesterday's desperate experimentation is the fact that if i cut the sequence's length from 8 (that normally is) to 7 or less the conversion happens just fine. From 8 and more it gets muted after the first sequence plays.

Really it just started out of nothing. It had never happened before.