JJ OS Feature Requests (ARCHIVE)

re-mono samples for looping purposes: in most situations, i can't do this, these are recordings chopped from record - they must be stereo much of the time...unfortunately. i'm sure it'd be easier to get a clickless loop w/ a mono sample.

i can create crossfades in reaper that have no bump, ones that are barely noticeable, if at all noticeable. they're pretty short. loop sections in general on samplers seem to be audible no matter what by nature of looping that small of a section of audio, so i'd rather have a tiny little bump than a click. the click just drives me nuts. depending on how wide the user could make those crossfades that may or may not be audible, even.

a xfade between sample values that aren't equal or contiguous, but thats rare - or at least hard to find esp. with such a limited zoom function as in the jjos.

i'm afraid you've lost me there w/ the equal/contiguous part. also though a handier zoom in the main trim screen (data wheel + shift = vertical zoom?) would be nice, i think even a very basic crossfade function would do wonders for me w/ the zoom as it exists now. i don't need anything fancy, just something to help me seamlessly loop stereo samples from record.

Possibilty to hide Grid Edit from Main Screen ("Turn On/OFF")

Antonym wrote:i'm afraid you've lost me there w/ the equal/contiguous part. also though a handier zoom in the main trim screen (data wheel + shift = vertical zoom?) would be nice, i think even a very basic crossfade function would do wonders for me w/ the zoom as it exists now. i don't need anything fancy, just something to help me seamlessly loop stereo samples from record.

yeah vert zoom in the 'join' page is a must!,

but where i lost u i mean that if a wave 'sample' value gets cut (where a loop 'join' is) it must be followed by a value very close (if not the same) - ie contiguous, for it to run smoothly for example. yeah we know that sure....
but sometimes xfades work but only to 'reduce' the difference in end value and start value...a situation that doesnt always work...a true fix would be zero crossing search.

what would you think of a "split track" feature?

you know when you're doing your drums you usually have them on the same track so you can see on grid edit.

But if i wanna do live track mutes it's a problem especially when i have a dozen of drum elements.

You'll probably say i'm lazy but it generally ends deleting manually events with the erase functions instead of havin'fun track muting.

I'm gonna sent a request to JJ anyway.

arpeggiator.

1.currently on 0.81 audio tracks respond to realtime q links pitch and level. id like this to be recordable.

2.how about a track filter and a track lfo too? i know that jj had to get rid off the second filter in the program but thought it'd be worth mentioning.this would be usuable on audio tracks too

3. i like the track delay on the audio tracks- it'd be good to allow negative values too. how cool would it be to have the same thing on midi tracks, again maybe too difficult but who knows? I could imagine it inside that empty rectangle beneath the track number and type on the main screen.

4.individual loop regions for each track, and realtime adjustment of them.currently loop can be turned on/off in grid edit edit but not in the main screen whilst playing a sequence.

5. "track mute/unmute quantize" track will unmute after 1bar/2bar/8 note etc.

6.re-introduce q>link>filter>in thru and make it recordable too.

7.pad 11 formerly GPE.....super duper dope MIDI IN to every parameter imaginable mode.

...please.

I desperately need the FULL EXTERNAL MIDI MULTITIMBRAL function.

That means ASSIGNABLE MIDI channels on the tracks which respond to the MIDI IN ports.
Currently only the ACTIVE track responds to the MIDI IN messages.


MIDI OUT is ok - you can control the external devices using the midi channels
but MIDI IN messages control only the active track.

Thank You.

zombaio ist right, this is one of the most important (requestable?) features regarding the mpc 1000 as a sampler... besides the bug with the sample assign zones I've mentioned before.

zombaio wrote::idea:I desperately need the FULL EXTERNAL MIDI MULTITIMBRAL function.

That means ASSIGNABLE MIDI channels on the tracks which respond to the MIDI IN ports.
Currently only the ACTIVE track responds to the MIDI IN messages.


MIDI OUT is ok - you can control the external devices using the midi channels
but MIDI IN messages control only the active track.

Thank You.

Antonym wrote:arpeggiator.

yeah this could be awesome

Before I got my MPC1K I used a Yamaha Motif ES for few years and I noticed a feature that I liked in the Motif missing from the MPC. In song mode it would be helpfull if you could edit the "bars" field so you could specify a start and stop point for that sequence. So basically instead of having to copy a sequence, shortening up the bars and editing the programed data to only play a certain part of the sequence, you could just use the original sequence and specify what section within the sequence you want to start and stop at.

Example or how a pattern could go...

Sequences Number...........Bars................................................Repeat

Sequence 1 (verse)..........1 - 4 (plays 4 bars all the way through)..1
Sequence 2 (verse)..........1 - 4....................................................1
Sequence 3 (verse)..........1 - 4....................................................1
Sequence 1 (verse)..........1 - 2 (would only play the first 2 bars)....1
Sequence 2 (verse)..........3 - 4 (would only play the last 2 bars).....1
Sequence 4 (hook)...........1 - 4....................................................1
Sequence 4 (hook)...........1 - 4-4/8 (stops short)...........................1
Sequence 1 (hook)...........1 - 1-1/8 (comes in where Seq 4............4
......................................................stopped and completes the
......................................................last part of the 4th bar)
Sequence 1 (verse)..........1 - 4....................................................1
Sequence 2 (verse)..........1 - 4....................................................1
Sequence 3 (verse)..........1 - 4....................................................1

and so on....

So in this situation you have 3 variations of sequence 1 and 2 variations of sequences 2 and 4 and you didn't have to copy and create more sequences and you didn't have to edit any sequences. I used this feature on my Motif ES only a few time because i didn't need it on every beat, but when I did it use it, it saved a lot of editing time (less chance of mistakes too) and memory. The Motif ES also let you convert to one long sequence from there. Of course if you want to switch up notes and make other changes like that then copying and editing sequences it a must. i know that's a Motif ES and this is an MPC but if JJ is improving on the original Akai OS then JJ might as well borrow some cool feature ideas from other workstations too. Now if JJ could only work it magic and figure out how to add a usb port on the MPC1k that will allow you to use memory sticks and external hard drives

I would like random triggering of sounds with in a layer and to cycle though sounds one at a time one one pad.
like on the mpc5000

ive said it before - need to say it again,

i want to be able to re-set a sequences speed, but not tempo....

ie, i have a seq at 110bpm, but now i wanna run the sequencer at say 170, then use the same seq pattern data but at say 1/2 original rate so it works in the new faster tempo without being too cluttered.

therefore i need a 'seq edit' function to double or half the seq/track events (or any simple multiple of the original) - so they would be playing at the new rates.

how about velocity to lfo rate.

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but I would like to have a numerical display for the pan and the pad level in the mixer screen. I would like for you to be able to still see the bar and the panning circle but it would be nice to have a numerical value like for example if you highlighted the pan circle and then press and hold shift the circle could change to C (center) then while still holding the shift while the pan is highlighted you could use the wheel and pan from L90 to C to R90, something like that. Then something similar could be done for the level. It would just be easier to use your ears and a number value to pan and set levels than to use your ears and the pan circle and the level bar both of which are not too accurate, specially the pan, I mean you can rotate the wheel a few clicks and the display remains the same.

I got an idea, let me know what you think:
One of the cool things about the sp-303 for me, is the ability to sample in lofi mode. Its 16 bit 22 khz as far as i remember, and it sounds mad dirty and cool. This would be an easy thing for jj to implement. What do you guys think ?