By ArKyve-31
Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:35 am
Hippotron wrote:I was working entirely on the MPC for a while (no DAW) and I wanted to emulate that side-chain sucking effect on some cymbals.
Here's what I did:
Put the same cymbal sample on two different pads.
Set both so they are mono and will mute each other.
Turn the attack up on one of your cymbal so that it fades in when triggered (adjust to taste).
Load a bass drum to another pad and set it to simult trigger the cymbal with the slow attack.
Now every time you hit the bass drum it will suck the cymbals to zero before the slow attack cymbal fades in.
Remember to use the cymbal with regular attack whenever the bass drum is not being triggered.
You might want to set up another pad that only triggers the bass drum.
Here's what it ended up as:
good post, nice beat too. thats a simple thing but still clever, maximizing the mpc's "outside the box" potential
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