By nachtaktiv
Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:53 am
hey there!
after a few weeks of working with it, i have a couple of questions regarding MPC live:
1. why do the call it «live»? maybe for finger drumming it’s perfect, but you can’t do two things at once, for example applying filter or reverb and un/mute a track. you always have to go back to menu and look for the right parameter. maybe you could do it «blind» with the q-knobs but thats too risky in a live situation. the solution would be to receive midi-cc’s from an external controller, but that doesn’t work (yet).
2. does the looper not work in midi clock slave mode?
3. is the midi clock really that unstable in master mode? my other gear jumps somewhere between .7 to .4
4. why are the started clip programs stopping when i change the track? i have to trigger them via sequencer and mute them in track/pad mute mode.
5. why are audio tracks treated so separately, not really convenient… for example in track mute mode
6. why is the time division of the mute mode not saved with the project?
7. why are my loops (not the factory ones) faded in clip launch mode? fade is off…
8. in standalone mode, you can’t change the time stretch algorithm? sounds very bad for my ears, transients are destroyed (clip launch mode).
9. in clip mode, is there a way to disable time stretch/pitch shift? like the old school samplers, slower = lower pitch, faster = higher pitch. like that there would be no quality loss
10. is it not possible to render an audio track, everywhere it is possible but not there…
11. is it not possible to set a free running LFO? in my case it is always triggered by the sequencer step
12. is it not possible to invert/move the curve of the tremolo? so you could do a «fake sidechain compression».
13. why is the pad perform mode not working anymore when you leave the pad perform menu?
14. why is the automation curve not visible and editable?
15. what about freely assignable LFOs and parameter locks?
16. what is so special about the «magic MPC sequencer», is this still true today? i only see not much more than a piano roll and velocity
17. and how the hell can i open a project on the computer that i made on the MPC???? in the video the simply tap the plugin icon and the project opens in the plugin/app. but i can’t even find my projects in the browser, it only shows the hard drive of my computer…
in my case it is not even perhaps suitable for a live situation, you can’t do two things at once, you have to go back to the main menu all the time and it’s not a logical and convenient workflow (for me). a little bit disapointing, when i see what the machine was capable to do. this could be the octatrack killer, but with the current firmware it is far away from that.
sorry for ranting
cheers
after a few weeks of working with it, i have a couple of questions regarding MPC live:
1. why do the call it «live»? maybe for finger drumming it’s perfect, but you can’t do two things at once, for example applying filter or reverb and un/mute a track. you always have to go back to menu and look for the right parameter. maybe you could do it «blind» with the q-knobs but thats too risky in a live situation. the solution would be to receive midi-cc’s from an external controller, but that doesn’t work (yet).
2. does the looper not work in midi clock slave mode?
3. is the midi clock really that unstable in master mode? my other gear jumps somewhere between .7 to .4
4. why are the started clip programs stopping when i change the track? i have to trigger them via sequencer and mute them in track/pad mute mode.
5. why are audio tracks treated so separately, not really convenient… for example in track mute mode
6. why is the time division of the mute mode not saved with the project?
7. why are my loops (not the factory ones) faded in clip launch mode? fade is off…
8. in standalone mode, you can’t change the time stretch algorithm? sounds very bad for my ears, transients are destroyed (clip launch mode).
9. in clip mode, is there a way to disable time stretch/pitch shift? like the old school samplers, slower = lower pitch, faster = higher pitch. like that there would be no quality loss
10. is it not possible to render an audio track, everywhere it is possible but not there…
11. is it not possible to set a free running LFO? in my case it is always triggered by the sequencer step
12. is it not possible to invert/move the curve of the tremolo? so you could do a «fake sidechain compression».
13. why is the pad perform mode not working anymore when you leave the pad perform menu?
14. why is the automation curve not visible and editable?
15. what about freely assignable LFOs and parameter locks?
16. what is so special about the «magic MPC sequencer», is this still true today? i only see not much more than a piano roll and velocity
17. and how the hell can i open a project on the computer that i made on the MPC???? in the video the simply tap the plugin icon and the project opens in the plugin/app. but i can’t even find my projects in the browser, it only shows the hard drive of my computer…
in my case it is not even perhaps suitable for a live situation, you can’t do two things at once, you have to go back to the main menu all the time and it’s not a logical and convenient workflow (for me). a little bit disapointing, when i see what the machine was capable to do. this could be the octatrack killer, but with the current firmware it is far away from that.
sorry for ranting
cheers