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By Scott Righteous Wed Nov 25, 2020 2:02 am
I have been testing out the new drum synths, and I find I get a lot of cut-outs in the audio, but it might just be my horrible technique! If I hit a pad for the 808 kick a few times, often one hit will cause the sound to entirely stop, as if it was a choke or mute group, but these drum synths are entire programs, there is no mute group (that I can see). This happens if I use a single pad for multiple hits, or two pads for a fast kick pattern.

Are others having this problem with the drum synths cutting out?
Does the MPC have some kind of 'false trigger' setting that tries to determine if a pad should be muted?

Possibly there is no issue, but even a soft hit on a pad, should just not trigger a new sound, it certainly shouldn't cut off the previously sounding kick. But that is what happens.
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By MPC-Tutor Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:47 pm
Scott Righteous wrote:Funny though, the Drum Synth Multi doesn't have a choke or mute group so you can't have the closed hi-hat mute the open one. . . doh!


Workaround is to turn off 'One Shot' on the open hat and play the open hats 'note on' style, controlling the length manually (which is how an open hat is effectively played in a real kit).
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By justineastwick Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:03 pm
MPC-Tutor wrote:
Scott Righteous wrote:Funny though, the Drum Synth Multi doesn't have a choke or mute group so you can't have the closed hi-hat mute the open one. . . doh!


Workaround is to turn off 'One Shot' on the open hat and play the open hats 'note on' style, controlling the length manually (which is how an open hat is effectively played in a real kit).


I’m pretty sure they’ll add that in later X.X.X firmware updates.