hwo come when speeding up tempo...

the samples dont speed up also, it just cuts them off.

i swear when using my friends triton LE, when you sped the tempo up, the samples stayed the same length, but the pitched changed to accomadate the faster/slower tempo

now if i ever decide to speed it up or slow it down, i have to go into step recording and change the duration of the sample, and sometimes im finding im having to scrap some samples if i cant make them flow properly, even using decay and TRIM.

so whats goign on, am i wrong, is my memory using the triton LE and when speeding up the tempo wrong?

actually, the tempo is only the rhythm of a track, it's measured in beats per bar or measure, which the click track(metranome) represents, so that has nothing to do with the sample which has it's own rhythm. the key is how you want to use the sample, if you need the rhythm to match your sample, either chop up the sample because its too long for the bars based on the tempo u've selected, or go to your slider pg and adjust the sample with tuning, which will change the tune but may work with your rhythm. But if u change the tempo, remember what you sequenced is based on the other tempo, so fcku wit the tune and see if that helps, cool! 100....

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This is the whole concept of timestretch...change the length of the sample without changing the pitch.

The other way around is to use a real pitch shift engine (see recent posts about SoX and chromatic tuning)...which changes pitch without changing length.

one-up wrote:the samples dont speed up also, it just cuts them off.

This is perfectly normal as the samples are only triggered.
None of the MPC's has "on the fly" timestretching functionality.

The Roland MC-909 does this with amazing quality. Roland
calls it "Variphrase Technology". You can easily drop the tempo
50% or make it 100% faster. The only drawback is that the
polyphony from a sample is counted double as long as the function
is activated. (MC-909 polyphony is 64 voices)

It also adjusts the tempo of drumloops or percussionloops automatically.

.... if only the MC-909 had MPC groove .... (':wink:')