Matching Bar length to recording time.

Hey all

When recording my pad playing into the mpc, i am always constrained to the bar length. I play rather free rhythms, which often don't align at all with the bar length. Using the tap tempo button doesn't help me much, I have difficulty to think in quarters with many of my beats. What I'm looking for is a function which starts recording when I hit the record button and stops recording when I hit the record button a second time. The time inbetween the button press is simply the length of the bar, so the tempo gets adjusted accordingly.


Hope somebody understands what I'm after... Do any of the alternative OS's out there offer a function like this?

you are going to have a hard time using the MPC if you don't want to stick to a tempo/time signature.

Sounds like you might want something more like a looper pedal or something along those lines. If you don't want to stick to a time signature though, why not just use Sound Forge, Audacity or Cool Edit or something like that?

Still... if you use JJOS you might be happy with the audio track implementation...

What he said, or just record straight into a DAW program such as Logic, Cubase, Pro Tools etc.