song to sequence

Hey mpc friends im new to the forum! Was wondering if i could get some help. Every time i make a few sequences and combine them in song mode and then assign the song to a sequence all the tracks are on the same program. Any help here would be appreciated. I have to go through all my tracks and change the programs back to the way i had them and it is a definite flow killer. Im using the mpc 5000. Thanks for the help!

Also if anyone has a cool way to sample in movie sound clips please share. Thank you!

Anyone? Well i can tell you this, the mpc 5000 has exceeded my expectations and as i learn more about it i feel it is a step up from the rest. Anyone who owns this machine and is disappointed needs to just gi e it time. Ive made some amazing beats on it and it seems to blow away anything else ive used before in the past 12 years.

What have you been using? Software based studio? Hardware?


I'll get mine in a few days. I want to go from all software to hardware/hybrid except for effect modules.


I just wonder how people experience the software to hardware transition. I know people are stoked about software coming from hardware and I understand. But working with a controller, a screen and a mouse really gets boring. That's why I'm going for a more hybrid studio setup.

When i first started out all i had was Acid, back in like i wanna say 1998 so you could imagine the limitations. I then bought myself a keyboard which wasn't much of a sequencing workstation (Roland jp 8000) but still had good sounds at the time. I would use that to do just mainly the synth and spacey sounds. My friend had an mpc but i'm not sure of the model he had maybe 1000 and we would combine alot of our projects together to make a finalized beat. After just going through so many limitations of my own sound library i decided to get logic 8,9 and i thought it was terrific which it is but then i got me the MPC 5000 and thought WOW!! my prayers were answered. I still use logic but more for just samples for the MPC sometimes along with the same old roland jp 8000 and i also added a denon dn-s3700 turntable. I feel like i have all the tools i need....for now at least.

I really prefer the hardware equipment. You can be totally creative and it's a whole lot more fun! maybe a bigger learning curve but you'll enjoy every second of it. I like your idea of the hybrid studio. Thats my current setup and it gives you a lot of options and is a big time saver!

The waves gold and ssl 4000 are worth it too!! forgot to mention i have those to use for mixing and mastering...Great stuff!!

yzervek wrote::D Hey mpc friends im new to the forum! Was wondering if i could get some help. Every time i make a few sequences and combine them in song mode and then assign the song to a sequence all the tracks are on the same program. Any help here would be appreciated. I have to go through all my tracks and change the programs back to the way i had them and it is a definite flow killer. Im using the mpc 5000. Thanks for the help!

Also if anyone has a cool way to sample in movie sound clips please share. Thank you!

There are 64 tracks, when putting your sequence together put your patterns on separate tracks especially if you have all 4 midis out going to sound modules. So when you combine your sequences into song there are no conflicts. That’s one way.

Another way if you have drums and instrument patterns going out to the same midi source, make sure they are not playing at the sametime it will cause midi conflict on different sequences, it is best that you set same instrument on a separate channel on your
Sound module.

When creating song use the mute tracks ignored.

Do not use the same track on diffrent sequences unless using the same program.

Awesome! Thanks bro!!

I am having this same prob lol. The tracks in each of my sequences are virtually the same instrument-wise (I make my entire song as 1 looped sequence. Then I copy that sequence a bunch of times and add different mutes to the tracks in each of the sequences to make each sequence different.) So.... if i have a kick drum on track 1 sequence 1 then all the rest of my sequences will have that same kick on track 1 as well (but parts of it may be muted differently). When I go to convert everything still gets F'd up lol. I've tried everything i can think of (ref to 1st seq, muted tracks ignored and merged on midi). I'm pretty sure merged on midi was the one lol, Do I need to set it up like track 1=midi 1a, track 2=midi 2a, and so on......Do I need to do this for EVERY single sequence as well (would take lots of time, my songs may have around 17 or so sequences-same sounds in each seq though). Just wanna get each sound back on its own individual track. Also I only record 1 sound per track, I keep it all seperate I do use more than one program in each sequence though (same program would be on same track in each sequence still....)Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Thanx a mill!