General MPC Beats Questions and a Bug? (2500/5000 user)

Hello MPC-Forums,
I am a 5000 and 2500 user and now MPC Beats user. I assume Renaissance introduced the OS, so I have been unfamiliar with it for some time now, and I have some questions for anyone who can help me please.

1. How do I warp/time-stretch a chromatically assigned sample to a single BPM, with no slowdown/speedup up and down the scale? This might be right in front of my nose, but I am finding nothing that will do this.

2. Is anyone using a Novation Launch Control with Beats? Is there a way to assign the Launch Control faders to the Beats mixer? MIDI Learn doesn't seem to give me the option, so I'm wondering if there is a workaround. 8 faders for 8 tracks limit would be perfect.

3. Is this a bug? If I have a second, third, etc option selected in a dropdown menu on the left (ie, track 2 or instrument 3) and I want to select <none>, Beats won't let me select <none> until I first select the 1st item on the list, and only after that will it let me select the above <none> option.

4. I've loaded projects from my 2500 and 5000 into Beats and I love this, however all of my samples are extremely loud. I am very careful not to record them hot in the machines. Anyone else find themselves having to drop their levels in Beats way down on imported projects?

This forum was a big help to me in the past. Thanks for any and all future input. I'll probably have more questions.
SMUDGE

Update
I just set the layout preferences to view all toolbars and one of them let me warp the chromatically assigned samples to the BPM. I did this making a key group, not 16 levels.

Update 2
For anyone struggling with this, I mapped the LaunchControl XL's faders in the Q Link MIDI mapping option. There is no "fader" mapping option, which is goofball.

SMUDGE wrote:
2. Is anyone using a Novation Launch Control with Beats? Is there a way to assign the Launch Control faders to the Beats mixer? MIDI Learn doesn't seem to give me the option, so I'm wondering if there is a workaround. 8 faders for 8 tracks limit would be perfect.

Update 2
For anyone struggling with this, I mapped the LaunchControl XL's faders in the Q Link MIDI mapping option. There is no "fader" mapping option, which is goofball.

No need to map your faders to Q-links. If you would like to map faders 1-8 to the levels of tracks 1-8 you should go to the "project" tab in the midi learn menu. Add eight new learn slots by pressing the "+" button. With midi learn activated you can bring up the channel mixer, move each strip with your mouse and assign each track to a slot. Alternatively you can use the pulldown menu. Not the most intuitive implementation, but it will function the way you want.