Assigning One Sample across All Pads - what the heck

This freaked me out with the MPC1000. well. ok.
But this completely **** me up on the MUSIC PRODUCTION CENTER 5000.

Why in the world is the automatic tune/program function for ONE SAMPLE over ALL Pads A01 TO D16?
Who needs one instrument sample pitched higher than, umm, Banks A and B???

"this allows you to easily play a melody with a single sample" says the manual.

Theoretically nice, but even the BEST SAMPLE IN THE WORLD is unuseable TUNED OVER 32 notes or more.

It really would be meaningful if chromatic assign (+parameters of the sound selected) could be limited in the "Auto Chromatic Assign Screen" for a SELECTABLE Destination Padbank (A,B,C or D), because16 notes mostly are enough for chromatic assign.

for example:
Sample 1 Pads A01-A16.
Sample 2 Pads B01-B16
and so on

Otherwise, who was needing a single sample spread from banks A to D, equal to 64 notes, more than 0 times in life?
I want only one person showing up here who did a good track on that.

Pls fix this Akai.

Thanks

Jauly wrote:[...]I want only one person showing up here who did a good track on that.[...]
Thanks

I know only a few people who can't stand 12-tone "music" (the others tend to be on TV in talk shows either as victim or applauding if signs with food show up). To sum this up: I don't want to start a discussion on the definition of "good" but as far as I remember, there's a feature request like this in the Feature Request thread. And I'd make you my vice chief engineer.

You can always simply ignore the samples assigned to banks C and D. Ths feature has existed since 1999 I believe when the MPC 2000XL was released.

Askia Shaheed wrote:You can always simply ignore the samples assigned to banks C and D. Ths feature has existed since 1999 I believe when the MPC 2000XL was released.

Interesting info, as I never had the older MPCs. Since then, they did not attempt to improve that feature a bit?
What a waste of Bank/Pad/MIDI space

It's not like you're gonna run out of programs/pads. It is true that many of the pads go to "waste" but I can think of 100 other things Akai could address before such a miniscule issue.

actually.... what would be tight about this would be if the sample could be spread chromatically in the correct scale with the same tempo from top to bottom(that way if you used a midi keyboard, you could play the sample from top to bottom with the keyboard). But thats only in a dream.

4dahaterz wrote:actually.... what would be tight about this would be if the sample could be spread chromatically in the correct scale with the same tempo from top to bottom(that way if you used a midi keyboard, you could play the sample from top to bottom with the keyboard). But thats only in a dream.

That sounds like the Variphrase technology in the VP-9000. I use to find them for as low as $200 when they were initially over $2000.

Oh for real... never heard of it... im new to that one

Yeah, that VP-9000 is great but the secondhand prices dropped, due to some problems with the OS, I believe. .

The nicer and updated version of the VP-9000 is the V-synth, V-SYnth XT, and V-Synth GT.

You can check out some reviews here : http://www.zzounds.com/item--ROLVP9000

With enough work, and possibly a good waveform display, you can get almost the same results with any sampler that allows chopping.