By Scott Righteous
Sat Jun 29, 2019 9:14 pm
I've been working on building various individual kits in the software. and now that I just started mixing and matching them, I realize that the MPC program structure is nothing like Maschine or most hardware samplers I've used.
The 4 send effects are global to all programs. So you can't have a drum kit, add a reverb and then set the reverb send level for each pad/sound in that drum kit and save it with that kit. This is such a standard way of doing things, that I can't believe something as sophisticated as the MPC can't work that way.
Of course you could save send settings, but if you have three kits loaded that use different send effects, you have a conflict.
You could put a reverb on each individual sound. I wonder if anyone has done that, would the MPC have the CPU power to handle that?
The only thing I can think of is to have drum kits saved as projects, and whenever I want to write a new song, pick the kit project as my base, and add other programs to it. I think it's mostly kits where I would use a few send effects, and other sounds could be built on the fly.
Is there some standard workaround that others use which I am missing?
Maschine has a few options, but also lets you put a reverb on a pad, and then other pads in that kit have sends to that pad, so you can save inserts with the kit that way.
The 4 send effects are global to all programs. So you can't have a drum kit, add a reverb and then set the reverb send level for each pad/sound in that drum kit and save it with that kit. This is such a standard way of doing things, that I can't believe something as sophisticated as the MPC can't work that way.
Of course you could save send settings, but if you have three kits loaded that use different send effects, you have a conflict.
You could put a reverb on each individual sound. I wonder if anyone has done that, would the MPC have the CPU power to handle that?
The only thing I can think of is to have drum kits saved as projects, and whenever I want to write a new song, pick the kit project as my base, and add other programs to it. I think it's mostly kits where I would use a few send effects, and other sounds could be built on the fly.
Is there some standard workaround that others use which I am missing?
Maschine has a few options, but also lets you put a reverb on a pad, and then other pads in that kit have sends to that pad, so you can save inserts with the kit that way.