Beats sound slow on play back

Question,
In record mode I would tap my pads fast and it sounds ok, but on play back a rapid tap sounds slowed down to a tap-tap-tap instead of a roll type of sound (if im making sense)

why is this?
I have updated the os to 1.31
I have installed 128ram expansion

Check what the Tuning is on the Pad your are assigning the sample to. If you have autoload set to ON, and the MPC is loading the factory demos sequences, the Tuning will be adjusted from +00:00 to something like -06:00. If you then assign your sample to this pad, your sample will sound slower.

Or if you are recording a sequence, turn the Timing Correct to OFF.

jasonmilligan91 wrote:Or if you are recording a sequence, turn the Timing Correct to OFF.

True, but that may not be needed.

Chances are your Timing correct is set to =8th's or =16th's. Increase it to =32nd's and you may be able to do what you want while still keeping perfect sequence time. If you turn TC off completely your going to be off unless your a ninja-funky-drummer.

If your trying to tap your pads to create a drum-roll effect, try using "note repeat" function instead.

It is good practice to record with TC off... but be prepared to do a lot more takes.

good looking out people,
those steps worked. i preciate it alot.

next question, which youtube users got the best mcp500 tutorials, or wheres another site i can hit for free videos on how-to's and what not?

This guy Rios has some pretty good vids that should be helpfull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cBPu5SwdPM

Another question,
I understand how to sample from via turntable, and have the sample auto-spread across pads so as it's automatically chopped up.

But how do I go about doing this via USB/CF Card and pc?
I loaded a sample, but is there a way to have it auto chopped n spread?

Just a heads up: If i ask a question and find out the answer before one of u guys post it, i'll just post it in here incase someone else new to the 500 harbor the same question.
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I found out how to chop them and map them the hard way on the mpc.
*You have to goto trim, and copy the sample to how ever many pads u plan on using.
*from there you then find out the end time for that sample
*then u use division against the pads u plan on using example...
Sample ends in = 708287
You want to use = 12 pads
You end up mapping each trim to be about 59023 in seconds
the beginning time after the first pad will be the end of the previous pad, I.E.

Pad 1
Begin = 0
End = 59023

Pad 2
Begin = 59023
End = 118046

Pad 3
Begin = 118046
End = 177069

and so on and so forth

Interesting.

You can also try some of the software mpc apps like mpcmaid which has its own built in autochop. Not sure if it auto assigns, but its probably pretty easy to drag and drop your chops to the pads in the gui and then create a program.

i had downloaded it and tried it but it told me that the first sample i tried chopping was too large, then when i finally had a smaller sample it wouldn't even chop. so i said f* it

It is kinda wobbly.
It works sometimes for some people.
The pad assignment and program creation functions are separate from the chopping function though and can be quite useful if you ever feel like giving it another try.

yea i probably will try it again, but i wanna perfect this mpc from hardware level before getting into 3rd party programs, lmao i know it wasnt nothing major but i felt good finding a way to do something that wasnt in the manual.

Yeah that's one way to chop. Still though, you can use this as a starting place, but you'll really want to learn to do this by ear as well. As with anything else, practice will make perfect and you'll find plenty of loops that you can't split on a 4 to the floor or other standard easily divisible time frame.

NearTao wrote:Yeah that's one way to chop. Still though, you can use this as a starting place, but you'll really want to learn to do this by ear as well. As with anything else, practice will make perfect and you'll find plenty of loops that you can't split on a 4 to the floor or other standard easily divisible time frame.

Ight NearTao, forgive the complete n00b'ness of the question but I gotta ask
"4 to the floor" means 4 bars to what?