MPC5000 reviews, bug reports and fellow user support on the most recent standalone, hardware MPC from Akai
By mayabong Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:01 am
Anyone else have the problems with the resonance assigned to pads?... Cutoff works fine, but when you assign resonance to a knob or fader it makes no change to the sound... Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
By hayoo Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:48 pm
mayabong wrote:Anyone else have the problems with the resonance assigned to pads?... Cutoff works fine, but when you assign resonance to a knob or fader it makes no change to the sound... Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?


I can't recall which exact programs this occurred with, but I noticed that at least one didn't seem affected by sweeping the resonance via QLink. I tried another (several others, actually) and it did work. I'm thinking it was the program, and that resonance just didn't effect that particular program in a way that I could perceive. Did you try it with another program?

Also, after you setup the QLink, is the "After" button lit for that QLink? Toggle it the other way and give it another try. You can overdub QLink movements onto a track when the corresponding After light is lit, however, when you play the track back with the After light lit, the changes will not be audible...until you press the After button again to turn it off. That's how I'm doing it: arm the Qlink, overdub the movements onto a given track, disarm the QLink, audition the sound...and repeat till I get it right.