By ssnedden
Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:06 pm
That I thought I would share. Tried it on a 1000 and it doesn't work. Because it's a glitch in the 500, but it sounds good.
This is for the style of programming where you make a sequence out of different tracks and turn them off and on via mute track. It can be changed to fit other programming styles.
So you have a long sample chopped into (4,8,12,16,whatever) pieces, right?
On the same mute group, right?
And a track with chops being played at 16ths on timing correct. So the track is telling the MPC to trigger A1, A5, A1, A10, A1, A2, etc... on Timing Correct. You know, rearranging the chops or just playing them out in order to get a better control of the tempo and alignment of sounds. Standard stuff.
THEN
Make a track with a blank pad (no sample attached to the pad) on the same mute group as the chops. So that it works as an off button for your samples that are chopped; it stops the playback of them. Put timing correct on (for both tracks, sample and off button) and hold note repeat on 1/16ths with this blank pad and program it on a separate track.
When you turn this track on on playback, without turning off the sample track, it won't not make your sample play, but rather play the slightest, slightest sliver of it and then stop it.
I got some pianos to sound like the mouth-clicks from Snoop's Drop it like it's hot. I got a drum break to sound like bongos.
It's a nice variation to throw in there on a beat because everything else you programmed stays, and the slivers are going to fit in the beat because they're in the same key as the sample you built the beat around or whatever.
It's really just a glitch with the 500 but it sounds cool.
I'll upload a sample or two of it if someone wants to hear what I'm talking about.
This is for the style of programming where you make a sequence out of different tracks and turn them off and on via mute track. It can be changed to fit other programming styles.
So you have a long sample chopped into (4,8,12,16,whatever) pieces, right?
On the same mute group, right?
And a track with chops being played at 16ths on timing correct. So the track is telling the MPC to trigger A1, A5, A1, A10, A1, A2, etc... on Timing Correct. You know, rearranging the chops or just playing them out in order to get a better control of the tempo and alignment of sounds. Standard stuff.
THEN
Make a track with a blank pad (no sample attached to the pad) on the same mute group as the chops. So that it works as an off button for your samples that are chopped; it stops the playback of them. Put timing correct on (for both tracks, sample and off button) and hold note repeat on 1/16ths with this blank pad and program it on a separate track.
When you turn this track on on playback, without turning off the sample track, it won't not make your sample play, but rather play the slightest, slightest sliver of it and then stop it.
I got some pianos to sound like the mouth-clicks from Snoop's Drop it like it's hot. I got a drum break to sound like bongos.
It's a nice variation to throw in there on a beat because everything else you programmed stays, and the slivers are going to fit in the beat because they're in the same key as the sample you built the beat around or whatever.
It's really just a glitch with the 500 but it sounds cool.
I'll upload a sample or two of it if someone wants to hear what I'm talking about.
ssnedden, I'm gonna try that when I get off work.
Hahaha! 