MPC One newbie losing her mind over the most simple feature

Hey guys, sorry for asking such a simple question but I just can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong here.

Basic facts first: I recently bought the MPC One (love it) and want to use it to arrange my own songs using drum samples, my microkorg synthesizer and some vocals running through a ve-20. Now I have both the synthesizer and the vocals processor connected to the MPC’s inputs, I‘ve got my deadphones connected to the phones jack.

All I want to do is: record synth and vocal sounds.

I read the manual and it seems easy - I created a new track, went to audio, enabled master and armed the track for recording audio, made sure mute and solo are off as well as automation. When I play the synth I can hear its sound. So I press play record and play and just play my synth part

BUT

The MPC doesn’t seem to record it? I play and play but no sound is captured.

I’m going crazy over this as it’s such a rudimental feature and I’m sure there must be an easy solution

Thanks a lot for reading and responding

Not entirely sure what you are trying to use for features...

But... if you are on an audio track, you want to use <Rec> and not <Over Dub>... would be my guess

or

Try out the looper or sampler first, and see if you can record there.

thank you!

The funny thing about the MPC ONE is the it only has 1/2 inputs but they allow 3/4 to be selected.

Same with the Live... my guess is that it is just so that you can move a project over and the software does what it is supposed to, but there is no hardware to input from. Once in a while I consider popping open the MPC to see if there are leads to connect to, but then I figure I'd rather just work on making music

NearTao wrote:Same with the Live... my guess is that it is just so that you can move a project over and the software does what it is supposed to, but there is no hardware to input from. Once in a while I consider popping open the MPC to see if there are leads to connect to, but then I figure I'd rather just work on making music

You can solder a dual usb port on the MPC ONE. The only issue is there isn't cut out on the rear. As far as upgrading the MPC ONE input or outputs, they used a different board for the audio section.