By vkinetic
Wed Aug 04, 2021 5:51 am
I'm a new MPC One user. I was watching a Youtube video about the MPC One and the author had an external keyboard connected to his MPC One via a USB hub as he found it easier to enter text that way rather than using the touch screen. I thought I would see what happened if I connected my wireless Logitech keyboard/touchpad to my hub. Sure enough I can input text via that wireless usb keyboard no worries. But I thought I would try to see if there are other things it could do. I spend too much time editing midi velocities in the midi editor, trying to get better feels of my drum tracks. Often I like to have a 16th or 32nd hi hat feel where, for example, I have every second event a lower velocity than every other event. It becomes quite tedious selecting every second event one by one because as far as I can see there is no way to select multiple non-contiguous events and edit them all at once (tried holding the MPC One's 'Shift' down while selecting events but that does not work). But if I hold the Shift key of the external keyboard I can select non-contiguous events (as if I was on a PC) for editing or manipulation which is a great time saver, for me anyway.
I hope I don't get laughed out of this forum because everyone already knows this but it's just something I stumbled upon. I had previous done a search looking for ways of choosing multiple non-contiguous events without success. But if anyone can tell me how they get better drum feels by editing velocities in a time friendly way I would be very grateful - I seem to have to spend way too much time doing this rather than actually creating music
Thanks
I hope I don't get laughed out of this forum because everyone already knows this but it's just something I stumbled upon. I had previous done a search looking for ways of choosing multiple non-contiguous events without success. But if anyone can tell me how they get better drum feels by editing velocities in a time friendly way I would be very grateful - I seem to have to spend way too much time doing this rather than actually creating music
Thanks