Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000

By adrian Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:15 am
I have found that by closing unnecessary programs running on my PC has allowed AkSys to run without crashing as often.

By renegadebliss Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:57 am
I think the ability to burn a cd from within Ak.Sys would be cool. Currently as far as
I can tell (new user, so feel to correct me if I'm wrong), the only way to burn to the internal
cd-r/cd-rw is to load what you want in memory and then use the Save -> Utility > Save Memory
to CD-R

I think it would be cool to be able to burn to cd in the Ak.Sys folder display , so that
once can organize one's burns a bit better. I have my HD organized into several folders for
various things and it would be nice to be able to retain the organization in the burns.

That way I can drag several folders onto the CD-R and have them burned from the harddrive
retaining their oranization (folder hierarchy).

By Altopiano Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:46 pm
what about aksys being able to copy whole banks? like if i have 16 sounds on bank a and i want to have exactly the same sounds and order in the same program on banks b,c,d,e or f? somethin like multiple sounds (16 or more or less) copiing from one place in a program to another ...
User avatar

By Iceberg-Slim Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:08 am
A Cool ability or feature would be like a little option to merge all DRUM tracks togethor into one track that way you would be able to program much easier
, hit it again and it would restore, or instead of actually moving, just some way so you can just see every drum hit at once

Just a thought that ran thru my head as I was programming my drums this evening :)
User avatar

By cyborgoe Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:49 pm
idd like to see the whole screen of ur mpc transferd too ur pc screen. just enlarge it..and all the ft. with it
thatz better 4 my eyez ....after alot off jointz and cuttin up samplez..

aaight laterz

Byhawaii Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:20 am
FX manipulation could be great !

By glide Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:52 pm
Well I'd like to see akai sys become soething like Ablenton Live 4 :)

In anycase it is my answer to roland VGA output for the mw, has anybody seen this realtime pattern/sequencing audio lastik editing realtime performance features program ect ect … it’s amazing!!!

So what you do is sample all your vinyl in the mpc dump it into live 4 do all the tempo/pitch aligning audio editing/swing/streach ect dump it back into the mpc, do your magic! Dump your main patterns to live try multiple versions of your patterns for arrangement, (its so fast as every track per pattern has it’s individual playback and pattern location), and I really hope akai will be inspired by this pattern based software and ether develop it into akaisys or start a colibration with albenton.

A new feature for the wish list:
There is a crossfader function in live 4 that be wicked to see on the 4k whereas the fader can act as a crossfader between selectable programs so you could say mix tracks together with full creative control over witch programs come in on the fly !!!!