sending tracks to outputs instead of programs or pads.

Is it possible to do this on the mpc5k? The way I've been doing it is by program in the program mixer. There you can assign each pad to a different output.
It would be very nice if I could just send the track to a particular output in order to record to the daw 8 tracks at a time... it would be a lot faster too instead of having to assign each pad to the same output.

oh well can this be done and how are you bouncing to daw if you do?

thanks in advance.

The Track mixer doesn't work that way. It is basically a MIDI track mixer for internal/external instruments. No audio passes through it.

You will have to use the program mixer. By pressing Shift + Pad, you can select a range of pads. Changing a paramter on one pad will change all the pads in that range. So you can easily assign all the pads to the same output. Once you assign your programs to these outputs, you can set these outputs as the recording source for hard disk tracks. You can only record two tracks at a time.

yeah I was hoping what I asked would be possible.

There surely must be a way of accomplishing this in an update. It would just make my life a lot easier. I hate having to assign each pad individually even with the shift.

I agree it's a pain to assign each pad. But this is the quickest way I've found... If you press SHIFT/PAD BANK that will select all the pads in that bank at the same time. Then assigning an output changes the whole bank.

Ask Akai to add a Track Mixer that allows you to assign outs by tracks like JJ has added or add MULTI's that allow you to assign outputs by PARTS.
It method will allow you to do and both have been proven to work.

Sovereign wrote:Ask Akai to add a Track Mixer that allows you to assign outs by tracks like JJ has added or add MULTI's that allow you to assign outputs by PARTS.
It method will allow you to do and both have been proven to work.

Actually with the new OS2, the pad mixer turns into a track mixer when you have loaded a keygroup program.