MPC 3 -- Let's GO!!

hyena wrote:

jpeg wrote:
i dont like that they dropped programs; so not sure how the equivalent of program edit works

well, that's exactly my thought. i'm loving all that i'm seeing of this new version BUT... man if programs have been dropped my entire liveset workflow has to be rethought! i was relying heavily on multiple tracks addressing single programs! it was one of the things i always LOVED about all mpc's i've had , since 2kxl!
well, i'll have to weight that against all the new goodness!

HouseWithoutMouse wrote:

eLuSiVeMiTe wrote:Midi clips would make 3.0 usable for me. One plugin with 10 midi clips I can place in the arranger to build up a song. Rather than a 5 minute long midi track to navigate on an awkward touchscreen. Sample clips I avoided. Preferred to do it in a normal program

MIDI is clearly on the way out. If you noticed in the video, there were 7 tracks, and 6 out of those were audio tracks. Audio is so much better. With MIDI everything is one big track with no building blocks of any kind, but with audio you get at least sections. The hell with MIDI altogether! It's a 1980s technology. Audio is modern. Spotify is all audio, no MIDI!

MPC-Tutor wrote:Programs have not been ditched, they still exist as an entity outside of your projects as xpm files, e.g. drum kits and keygroup instruments.

When you load a program into mpc3 it’s effectively absorbed into the target track. So there’s no program hanging around in project memory, you just now edit the track instead via track edit (which is basically the old program edit)

I assume that, just like the force, you can still save programs as xpm files from a selected track (effectively ‘extracting’ the program data from the track), but also export the entire track as well (including all macros and various other settings) as an xtk file

HouseWithoutMouse wrote:

eLuSiVeMiTe wrote:Midi clips would make 3.0 usable for me. One plugin with 10 midi clips I can place in the arranger to build up a song. Rather than a 5 minute long midi track to navigate on an awkward touchscreen. Sample clips I avoided. Preferred to do it in a normal program

MIDI is clearly on the way out. If you noticed in the video, there were 7 tracks, and 6 out of those were audio tracks. Audio is so much better. With MIDI everything is one big track with no building blocks of any kind, but with audio you get at least sections. The hell with MIDI altogether! It's a 1980s technology. Audio is modern. Spotify is all audio, no MIDI!

J.O.BEATS wrote:

joegrant413 wrote:Arranger view is the biggest thing for me.

And I get that some MPC users are going to miss some workflow changes.

But I like the move towards more of the things we expect working with a DAW. IMO, having an MPC Key 61 gives me a nicely integrated play, mix, arranger DAW-ish package that my head and my muscle memory can grow with.

This is the thing though. Many of us use mpcs because we don’t like making music in a DAW

I’m not complaining but I’m worried it won’t feel like an mpc. I could be wrong and it’ll be the best of both worlds but the concerns are legit and not just “hate”

MPC_Maschinist wrote:Hi,

Maybe I've missed it and some MPC 3 beta testers know it already: Is it possible to import and/or migrate MPC 2 projects?

kidkeitel wrote:They changed the name from Midi Production Center to Music Production Center when they realized they couldnt properly finagle midi to work properly.

HouseWithoutMouse wrote:MIDI is clearly on the way out. If you noticed in the video, there were 7 tracks, and 6 out of those were audio tracks. Audio is so much better. With MIDI everything is one big track with no building blocks of any kind, but with audio you get at least sections. The hell with MIDI altogether! It's a 1980s technology. Audio is modern. Spotify is all audio, no MIDI!

kidkeitel wrote:They changed the name from Midi Production Center to Music Production Center when they realized they couldnt properly finagle midi to work properly.