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 GDaddie Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:02 am
Hi there,
I am having trouble saving the key of the Progression in Pad Perform mode in each one of my projects.
I will be more specific.
I have made my own Progressions in Standalone mode for each one of my tracks that I play live and I have saved each one of my tracks as a different project. The reason for that is that I want to open a project and have my Chord Progression saved and ready to play with Pad Perform without the need of browsing into my Progressions library every time I play a new track and changing the key.

So.. when I open a project, the correct progression is loaded fine BUT the key (Scale and Octave field in Pad Perform mode) in not correct! Actually, MPC live keeps the key of the previous project/track!!!

I looked it up and found almost nothing online. I know that the file "Project Settings.xml" stores basic information about Progressions and settings but I don't really know exactly what I am looking at here. I have tried to change the "PadPerform.BaseNote" value but with no luck...

Here is an example of the file (the first 15 lines):

<settings>
<VALUE name="PadPerformSettingsVersion" val="0"/>
<VALUE name="PadPerform.Type" val="4"/>
<VALUE name="PadPerform.ScaleBasedChord" val="0"/>
<VALUE name="PadPerform.ChromaticChord" val="0"/>
<VALUE name="PadPerform.ScaleType" val="0"/>
<VALUE name="PadPerform.BaseNote" val="2"/>
<VALUE name="PadPerform.BankBehaviour" val="1"/>
<VALUE name="PadPerform.StartOctave" val="6"/>
<VALUE name="PadPerform.Velocity" val="0.0"/>
<VALUE name="PadPerform.ProgressionName" val="0-ATYW"/>
<VALUE name="TouchStripResponder.Behaviour" val="TouchFX"/>
<VALUE name="TouchStripProjectModeProvider.Target" val="{&#10; &quot;target&quot;: {&#10; &quot;parameter&quot;: 2147483647,&#10; &quot;programName&quot;: &quot;&quot;,&#10; &quot;midiTrackIndex&quot;: {&#10; &quot;initialized&quot;: false&#10; },&#10; &quot;instrumentIndex&quot;: [],&#10; &quot;momentary&quot;: false&#10; }&#10;}"/>
<VALUE name="TouchStripNoteProvider.NumNotes" val="8"/>
<VALUE name="TouchStripPitchBendProvider.Relative" val="0"/>
<VALUE name="Quantiser.TimeDivision" val="1/16"/>

Any ideas? Please help :)
Thanks!