Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
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By selecta jo Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:07 pm
yes...

peace jo

(to get a suficient answer you have to ask in another way and show at least some effort to understand your machine before asking.
your manual tells you what about resampling? what about soloing/muting tracks? do you understand the basic theory of tracks and sequences?) 8)
By Don Blake Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:26 pm
Im not aware of a quick way of bouncing all the tracks down into waves(if someone tells me that there is id be happy to be wrong).
But i assume the only way is to solo one track at a time and then resample the main out!
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By selecta jo Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:09 am
peelnpuff wrote:Sorry for the rough opening, i forgot to say hello...


no problem, welcome to the forums...

ok here is a quick tip: copy the sequence with the tracks you want to bounce seperate to as much sequences as you have tracks.
now go to every sequence and solo one track. then go to song mode and make a song with all sequences (you can also let every sequence repeat a few times). now convert the song to a sequence. now you have one big wavefile with all your soloed tracks. transfer this to your daw using your prefered way (usb, cf card, burn cd) and cut it up.

peace jo
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By krush777 Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:47 pm
selecta jo wrote:
peelnpuff wrote:Sorry for the rough opening, i forgot to say hello...


no problem, welcome to the forums...

ok here is a quick tip: copy the sequence with the tracks you want to bounce seperate to as much sequences as you have tracks.
now go to every sequence and solo one track. then go to song mode and make a song with all sequences (you can also let every sequence repeat a few times). now convert the song to a sequence. now you have one big wavefile with all your soloed tracks. transfer this to your daw using your prefered way (usb, cf card, burn cd) and cut it up.

peace jo


And when you do this, you will have one long sequence with all of your tracks "end to end" that you will then chop up and re-align as tracks in your DAW?
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By selecta jo Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:25 pm
krush777 wrote:And when you do this, you will have one long sequence with all of your tracks "end to end" that you will then chop up and re-align as tracks in your DAW?


yes, but only in the mpc meaning of "track". that means the tracks of that one sequence regardless how long that sequence may be. not a track that is as long as a song made of sequences.
on the mpc a track made of several sequences in song mode is not "really" one long track but consists of tracks of several sequences.
if you want to be sure that your tracks are working fine from "end to end" in song mode you have to make every sequence the same stucture as the first sequence you use in that song. i.e. kick-track1, clap-track2, hihat-track3, bass-track4, etc. because the mpc is referencing to the first sequence. so it should also work like it was described by don blake above: solo your track in sequence1 -> then bounce your song to sequence and your songlong track is in a new wavefile. then you have to solo track2 and repeat.

on the mpc you can also make songs of sequences that are not refering to sequence1 and many people only make sequences without arranging them to a song so my tip was for these scenarios.

peace jo