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 eLuSiVeMiTe Sun Feb 12, 2023 8:05 pm
Trick I used to do with my 1k and 25k

Have for eg. A drum program over 10 tracks on the 1000 2 bar seq

Il send midi from these to a track running the same program on the 25k and hit record while jamming the drum track on the mutes.

Only the unmuted midi is recorded building a full track that requires minimal editing.

Can be done to individual tracks too.


Thought I'd have a go on the X. Couldn't get it to work with internal midi sends but by sending midi out and then back in I was able to achieve the same result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27pBAzEZOZo
Mute behaviour can't be set to instant in Prefs

Excuse the crappy loop. Bashed out anything to test the theory.
By SuperKonquer Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:18 pm
This works pretty well. i like to play with the track length too while doing this. The only thing is the midi has a 5-10ms delay round trip so you have to adjust what you record back onto the grid.
By eLuSiVeMiTe Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:30 pm
SuperKonquer wrote:This works pretty well. i like to play with the track length too while doing this. The only thing is the midi has a 5-10ms delay round trip so you have to adjust what you record back onto the grid.


Not as much of an issue for me being edm/breaks orientated. More on grid than off and quantising pulls it back.

Had an 8 minuite track to rebuild a drum track for last year when the idea occured to me. Would have been tedious on jjos grid edit.