By clocks
Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:14 am
Aye all,
I've been an MPC enthusiast for 16+ years, I used to have an account here ages ago, but in recent years have solely been a guest who stops by for some quick reads and matching inquiries.
Thanks everyone for helping keeping the AKAI dream alive!
Now, for the thought / question I have at hand:
I have in recent years fooled around with different sorts of looping hardware and software and while I will forever be most fluent with the MPC I have come to realize there are some very hands on ways of recording methods with substantially faster fluid workflow when compared to the composition style of MPC sequencing.
In my experiments I have had thoughts which I think would take my somewhat newly found methods on other hardware and bring them back home to the MPC.
This is regarding Punch In / Punch Out methods frequently (almost always) standard with loop stations and loop pedals.
I currently have an MPC One after finally moving on from the 2500 and while diving a bit into AKAIs (new?) Audio looper I have discovered they have indeed been able to implement manual punch In / Out for recording audio loops... but not MIDI?
Basically what I am trying to do is somehow negate the MPC's default setting which automatically jumps from REC mode to OVERDUB mode as soon as a sequence loops so that it will stay in REC mode until I manually decide to either turn REC off or change it to OVERDUB on my own. Like I said, I know this can be done with Audio but is there no way (either in menu settings or through a little MIDI sorcery) that I can implement this into MIDI sequence recording? Funny to me that after all these years using the MPC I never thought of this idea and I feel like it would have really helped my workflow and kept things moving in many cases.
I saw someone mention about how they had used to do this on their MPC1000 but inserting a midi note at the beginning of their sequence and mapping it to either the REC function or the OVERDUB function to essentially act as an extra finger to press the button for them when the sequence comes around to 1:1:1:1... I guess I could do it this way (if I knew how). Any other ideas?
Thanks again all.
Cheers.
I've been an MPC enthusiast for 16+ years, I used to have an account here ages ago, but in recent years have solely been a guest who stops by for some quick reads and matching inquiries.
Thanks everyone for helping keeping the AKAI dream alive!
Now, for the thought / question I have at hand:
I have in recent years fooled around with different sorts of looping hardware and software and while I will forever be most fluent with the MPC I have come to realize there are some very hands on ways of recording methods with substantially faster fluid workflow when compared to the composition style of MPC sequencing.
In my experiments I have had thoughts which I think would take my somewhat newly found methods on other hardware and bring them back home to the MPC.
This is regarding Punch In / Punch Out methods frequently (almost always) standard with loop stations and loop pedals.
I currently have an MPC One after finally moving on from the 2500 and while diving a bit into AKAIs (new?) Audio looper I have discovered they have indeed been able to implement manual punch In / Out for recording audio loops... but not MIDI?
Basically what I am trying to do is somehow negate the MPC's default setting which automatically jumps from REC mode to OVERDUB mode as soon as a sequence loops so that it will stay in REC mode until I manually decide to either turn REC off or change it to OVERDUB on my own. Like I said, I know this can be done with Audio but is there no way (either in menu settings or through a little MIDI sorcery) that I can implement this into MIDI sequence recording? Funny to me that after all these years using the MPC I never thought of this idea and I feel like it would have really helped my workflow and kept things moving in many cases.
I saw someone mention about how they had used to do this on their MPC1000 but inserting a midi note at the beginning of their sequence and mapping it to either the REC function or the OVERDUB function to essentially act as an extra finger to press the button for them when the sequence comes around to 1:1:1:1... I guess I could do it this way (if I knew how). Any other ideas?
Thanks again all.
Cheers.