Support and discussion for all of Akai’s modern standalone MPCs including the MPC X / X SE, MPC Live 1, 2 & 3, MPC One / One+, MPC Key 37/61.
By Scott Righteous Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:37 pm
Even when I'm only using the MPC Live for drum sounds and percussion, I really miss the option to have velocity modulate the release time on the amp envelope. For vibes, bells and metal percussion it's a really useful feature. I get that the MPC won't have full sampler options for recreating organic instruments, but this one would still be useful for drums and percussion.
By Scott Righteous Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:49 am
I mean you should be able to set how much velocity increases the decay of the amp envelope, in the same way you can set velocity to increase volume. A hard struck mallet sound should allow more of the sample trail to be heard, soft struck would decay sooner. Battery lets you do this. I think all my older Akai rack samplers had this as well.

I'm talking in terms of creating dynamic playable instruments/programs, so nothing to do with automation for stuff that is already sequenced.
By Cashman Fri Aug 16, 2024 1:45 pm
+1
Allow modulation of decay or release by the LFO too. I've been looking for a way to do this today and I'm absolutely stunned (and more than a little pissed off) that the MPC is unable to do this simple trick on drums. This is techno HiHats most simple modulation. I can't believe I can't set this up.