Things I wish could be done on a 2000xl

There is no quick fix to your 'problem', other than becoming accustomed to memorising the order your track plays in or chaining it together in song mode. If I really wanted the order to progress numerically by sequence, I would probably leave the first 20 sequences blank and copy and paste the finished order together. That would take all of 2 minutes if you can spare it?

Coz:

Yeah that's more or less what I'm doing. It's not a 'problem', just a thought. I'm a bit surprised that people seem to think it's dumb or lazy or uninformed to speculate about the inclusion of easily automated tasks to the machine's repertoire.
Or that I'm hating on it or something.

Certainly this 'issue' is not a big deal, and a very minor criticism of a great machine, but isn't the whole point of the machine to be fluid and flexible to serve as a blank canvas for your musical ideas? And it is that. But wouldn't it be nice to have as many ways as possible to divide or assemble the sequenced sections, be they Tracks or Sequences?

Anyway, thanks for all your thoughts, I guess I'm the only one who would like these features and that's cool with me.

One feature I would like is to be able to use the NV slider as a continuous controller for the filter or pitch, instead of just for note on. That way I'd be able to record a nice filter sweep, or a little pitch bend lick on a bass line.

^^^Serious?


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the xl is a "blank canvas". you still have to use a certain type of brush to paint a certain type of line.

you're complaining because you want to use one "brush" to do everything. just get used to it. though being able to do what you describe would be nice. its not a big enough issue for anybody else but you.

i wish my xl had a microwave attached to it so i wouldnt have to pry myself away from it to eat but oh well. it's not gonna make me any less productive.

jonestown massacre wrote:^^^Serious?


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I take it by this you mean "Here's a newbie who doesn't know his gear and can't be bothered to read the manual"?

Well Jonestown, I'd like you to follow these steps:

1. Load a 2 bar sample into your 2000XL and assign the NV slider to alter the filter cutoff of this sample.

2. Trigger the 2 bar sample and try to use the NV to smoothly sweep the filter from closed to open, while the sample is playing.

3. Realise that this doesn't in fact perform a filter sweep, and heed your own advice and RTFM yourself.

4. Upon reading the manual you discover that although not entirely clear, it suggests that the aforementioned filter sweep isn't possible.

5. Read the following thread http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=50610 (paying particular attention to McSmooth's post) and realise that other people agree with me that the filter sweep is indeed not possible.

6. Feel quite humbled and silly in front of your peers that, as an "expert member" and after dismissing my original post with a RTFM reply, realise that you yourself do not actually know your own gear, or read the manual.

A lot of people round here wouldn't even know what a filter sweep is, let alone be able to impart good advice. I'm hearing you on this with the xl, although I assume my new 2500 will be able to do this... I just haven't had time to RTFM as yet!

its song mode dude then save the song as a seq, but what u seq all 8 measures? I do seq 1as 4 measures for my intro and vamps, then seq 2 is 8 measures for my chorus then 16 measures for my verses . The when I create my song based off those patterns insert 1,2,3,2,3,1,3,2,2,1 <--- then I save my seq orders as a seq file I don't leave them as patterns. Or just create all 8 measure patterns because an intro is not usually 8 its for and a verse is 16 thats how songs are created be it hiphop, rock, rnb or jazz. Master your craft dunn