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 Aphter-Glo Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:37 am
So, I have an MPC Keys; never really thought to do it with my Live II or X, but most keyboards/synths I’ve owned that can have a master tuning (i.e.’s tuning that isn’t controlled by a single potentiometer or something similar; basically analog synths) have this feature. I realize we’re working with samples in a lot of cases not exclusively plugins, so maybe that chord sequence is in Cminor, or maybe isn’t even “tuned” in the equal temperament sense, and isn’t just a drum hit or sound tuned to C or some other single note in equal temperament that’s tuning would be relative to A=440hz, but something I’ve frequently made use of with keyboards is using a specific tuning for A that isn’t 440hz (and no it’s not some weird conspiracy thing, I just prefer a slightly off from most music’s tuning if I have it available on all the equipment I’m generating sounds with). I don’t think I typically use a tuning that’s frequently mentioned in obscure or batshit “no this is the right tuning” arguments. I digress though - a lot of samples I have are tuned to standard notes - the plugins are tuned to some sort of master tuning, even if it’s not adjustable. So I’m just hoping that’s something I can adjust and, let’s say I had a kick, snare, and hihat cymbal sample tuned to C relative to A=440hz, if I adjusted a master tuning, I wouldn’t have to mess around with tuning of the kick, hat, cymbal or individual plugins, the master tuning would just cause them to be detuned however many (preferably hertz, but even cents would be nice). I mean this would be nice if you were playing with various people with various instruments - maybe your guitarist normally tunes to A=428hz or something. Or somebody’s got some weird instrument that’s tuned to something weird. With the keys more or less being sold as a workstation, if this isn’t a feature it would be nice if Akai implemented this in the OS at some point. I really don’t want to manually detune every sample I use per track (let alone figure out where (if anywhere) and how to do this in each plugin).
By HouseWithoutMouse Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:41 am
You could try an external audio interface with a word clock input, and sync it to a clock that can do "varispeed", arbitrary audio clock rates. So it could do like 43210 Hz. Dunno if Akai has sanity checks to prevent this from happening. This would also support A=432 Hz, flat earth, angel dust and that sort of alternative world views.
By B-Wise Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:49 pm
MPC-Tutor wrote:Paragraphs makes it so much easier to read ;)

Exactly!
I Felt like I was watching the beginning of Star-Wars, but even that has paragraphs. :lol:

Seriously, paragraphs do help others to digest your message, especially when dealing with technical stuff. It also increases the amount of people that will commit to reading it. At least add a TL,DR version at the end.
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By Lampdog Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:44 pm
Q-Link edit.
Create a q-link that tunes the whole project (project q-link mode)
I do this AND make q-links to tune my entire program(s) (program q-link mode).
No default, master tune for the whole machine.

IMO q-link option is better anyway.
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By MPC-Tutor Thu Jan 18, 2024 3:12 pm
I can't see a project tune option, could you describe this in more detail? All I see under QLINK > Project are options to set Qlinks to target individual elements (e.g. 'Submix 1 > Pan')

Lampdog wrote:Q-Link edit.
Create a q-link that tunes the whole project (project q-link mode)
I do this AND make q-links to tune my entire program(s) (program q-link mode).
No default, master tune for the whole machine.

IMO q-link option is better anyway.
By Aphter-Glo Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:23 pm
Yeah, I would also be interested in that.

MPC-Tutor wrote:I can't see a project tune option, could you describe this in more detail? All I see under QLINK > Project are options to set Qlinks to target individual elements (e.g. 'Submix 1 > Pan')

Lampdog wrote:Q-Link edit.
Create a q-link that tunes the whole project (project q-link mode)
I do this AND make q-links to tune my entire program(s) (program q-link mode).
No default, master tune for the whole machine.

IMO q-link option is better anyway.
By Aphter-Glo Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:25 pm
MPC-Tutor wrote:Paragraphs makes it so much easier to read ;)

No global tune option for any mpc model, you can individually tune keygroup instruments and some plugins have a global tune, but for example Jura doesn’t




Apologies, it’s using the site interface on my phone, in part, just only so much space on the screen to see at a time. I’ll try to start doing a second read through as it would probably make length/breakpoints more obvious.
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By Lampdog Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:25 am
I may have meant Program tune.

Sorry for the confusion. Just got home, lemme go look


….yeah my bad, in project q-link mode, I assigned q-links for programs (multiple q-links, multiple programs) for global semi-tune.


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