JJ OS Feature Requests (ARCHIVE)

Quantize current Track Events to Events on another Track

Explanation:

Say I've banged out a kick, snare and hat live, then I spend a while tweaking the position of each event to get a nice groove.
I now have my base groove and for all intents and purposes my 'user quantize'.
Now I add bass, synth, fx, extra snare, extra kick Tracks etc, etc.
I now spend ages tweaking these new Tracks to fit with my 'user quantize' of my original kick, snare, hats Track (I do split this eventually into separate tracks btw).
I go back and forth between my 'user groove/user quantize Track' and the new tracks to find out the time position of my base groove so I can shift the events in my new Tracks accordingly. Obv I don't always position the events exactly the same because it depends on the sample, envelope settings and particular sound I want, but I always start from the same position as my groove if the events are near the same point in time.
If there was a function to quantize new tracks with another Track that would be awesome sauce and save me tons of time.

Also, if events are a certain distance away from the quantize position of the 'user groove', say more than 000.00.22, then they are not affected by the 'quantize to another Track' function and stay in place; maybe a Strength function.

^^when things like this pop up i always wish i could understand. especially seeing as it is more-than-likely going to be a key part of the beat-making process.

I posted this in another thread yesterday but I think it would be more appropriate to have it here.

One thing I've always wanted to see added was a "pattern chain" mode, it would look similar to grid edit. It could look something like this (looks a little crazy but you get the point)...

Pattern 1 []----------[]
Pattern 2 []
Pattern 3 --[][]--------[][]
Pattern 4 --[][]--------[][]
Pattern 5 ------[][]
Pattern 6 ----------[][]
Pattern 7 ----------[][]

When you'd go into "pattern chain" mode you'd be able to edit the order of how the sequences would play in real-time (similar to how you add/remove notes in grid edit) and if you wanted to you could also have more than two sequences playing at the same time, not sure if that's possible though (playing more than two sequences at the same time might make our MPC's explode ). There could also be a marker kinda like the one in trim mode that would follow the progress of the song and let you see where you're at. Of course you'd be able to rename "pattern" to read "drums", "hook" or whatever.

It would be really easy to put a song together this way and see what's going on, it would be similar to the FL studio's pattern chain mode for those of you familiar with FL. I used FL for about a year some ten years ago and this is something that I still remember and miss. I also had a Roland MV-8800 for about a month a few months back and it had a very similar way of putting songs together and if I remember correctly it also had a song mode similar to the one we already have on the mpc (you could do both). What do you guys think, do you think it would be useful?

Input Thru annoyance (almost a bug):

After a sample is recorded in Input Thru screen, the incoming signal cuts out for a second while the sample is processed (during the "Wait......" screen). I wonder, would it be possible to make the signal pass through completely uninterrupted during the sample processing?

I'm using the MPC for sampling of live instruments and vocals, constructing loops on the spot. The small gap in audio is most irritating, so at the moment I have to use my MPC in connection with an old Yamaha SU200. That's one sampler that lets the signal pass through while processing the sample, and it is basically a cheap toy... I guess the MPC should be able to do the same, no?

I'm using mpc2500_xl216.osx.

emceewhiterabbit wrote:^^when things like this pop up i always wish i could understand. especially seeing as it is more-than-likely going to be a key part of the beat-making process.

yeah this is a feature we see often in DAW programs, where if user creates 'beat' that is slightly off grid, and that feels to the user like a good groove 'template' - it can be applied to other 'beats' grids, then its saved as a quantizastion grid complete with info of HOW off the events are from the straight grid. as a result , any new 'beat' that has this user template applied to it, will change to 'feel' like it has the same groove.

very good way of getting a unified feel to all the quantised tracks. and can in some ways become a stamp of a certain user's style.

i think it would be fly to have groove templates in JJos. a nice request btw.

Request: Ability to name tracks, sequences, programs etc WHILE STILL PLAYING!!

Going through the list of reason why I stop and start my MPC all the time, this is number one for me...


I have to imagine it is harder than it seams or it would already be this way

maybe this was mentioned already, but here it goes:

1. ability to record analog and digital ins simultaneously, (to 4 audio tracks). Not sure if the hardware would allow that.

2. Ability to set the pads to TOGGLE NOTE ON/OFF

arebee wrote:

emceewhiterabbit wrote:^^when things like this pop up i always wish i could understand. especially seeing as it is more-than-likely going to be a key part of the beat-making process.

yeah this is a feature we see often in DAW programs, where if user creates 'beat' that is slightly off grid, and that feels to the user like a good groove 'template' - it can be applied to other 'beats' grids, then its saved as a quantizastion grid complete with info of HOW off the events are from the straight grid. as a result , any new 'beat' that has this user template applied to it, will change to 'feel' like it has the same groove.

very good way of getting a unified feel to all the quantised tracks. and can in some ways become a stamp of a certain user's style.

i think it would be fly to have groove templates in JJos. a nice request btw.

thank you very much for taking the time to help me understand this better. i appreciate it

It would be nice to be able to set for any assignable OUT as an AUX send

Is it possible to 'mute' your SIMULT SEQUENCE by 'solo'ing a track? So when you hit 'mute' your track mutes, but your simult Sequence still plays, and then when you hit 'solo' your track plays but your simult sequence mutes?

This would be great for fading in one track into another, and being able to swap back and forth between the two tracks..

Non-Destructive bitcrusher in program mode:
Could be added the same way non-destructive mono/stereo and non-destructive reverse were added. This way we can non-destructively choose between 12-bit, 10-bit, 8-bit, etc. without having to leave program mode so that we can preview the sound without having to commit to the change like we do in trim mode now. This would save a lot of time and give us more possibilities.

EQ boost/cut in program mode (sweepable):
I remember that before in the filter area of program mode we were able to choose between EQ low and EQ hi and boost or cut the frequencies, I haven't seen it for a while. Would be nice to have it back with sweepable frequencies, the lows could be boost or cut anywhere from 20hz to 140hz, mids from 150 hz to 900 hz, highs from 1 kHz to 20 kHz (or whatever the proper frequencies are).

B.A. wrote:Non-Destructive bitcrusher in program mode:
Could be added the same way non-destructive mono/stereo and non-destructive reverse were added. This way we can non-destructively choose between 12-bit, 10-bit, 8-bit, etc. without having to leave program mode so that we can preview the sound without having to commit to the change like we do in trim mode now. This would save a lot of time and give us more possibilities.

EQ boost/cut in program mode (sweepable):
I remember that before in the filter area of program mode we were able to choose between EQ low and EQ hi and boost or cut the frequencies, I haven't seen it for a while. Would be nice to have it back with sweepable frequencies, the lows could be boost or cut anywhere from 20hz to 140hz, mids from 150 hz to 900 hz, highs from 1 kHz to 20 kHz (or whatever the proper frequencies are).

+1 on the eq thing. would love to see that. maybe dedicated eq section track/pad in mixer mode?

+1 on non destructive bit crush.

would like to see L+R (Vocal Cut) added to the non-destructive playback in program mode

Hey JJ!

A great addition would be a 'master out', so you can set your main out to L, R, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.. so that when playing live in a mono setting you don't have to individually change each track to mono. (ie - playing in a mono setting, all my drums on the right side are now more quiet, and the drums on the left side are more loud)

not sure if some1 mentioned the following but here it goes:

1.) a way to SAVE all progs/samples/sequences without having to go through the menus, something like CTRL+S on a pc.

2.) PAD COPY without the MPC1000 going to the Program to which the pad was copied. :

I was creating a program yesterday.... Loaded about 5-6 programs and in PROGRAM MODE was hitting the pads, if I liked a sample I did COPY PAD to program I was creating, but the MPC kept going to that program, so every time I did a copy I had to use the data wheel to go back to the program was coping from, a bit frustrating.

astronaut wrote:not sure if some1 mentioned the following but here it goes:

1.) a way to SAVE all progs/samples/sequences without having to go through the menus, something like CTRL+S on a pc.

2.) PAD COPY without the MPC1000 going to the Program to which the pad was copied. :

I was creating a program yesterday.... Loaded about 5-6 programs and in PROGRAM MODE was hitting the pads, if I liked a sample I did COPY PAD to program I was creating, but the MPC kept going to that program, so every time I did a copy I had to use the data wheel to go back to the program was coping from, a bit frustrating.

yes, a sorter way for pad copy. it would seriously be sweet if you could from the main screen hit a pad, hit shift, select cop pad from a soft key (f2 key), then it would copy pad, then you could go to any track, any program, hit a pad, then hit shift and hit paste pad (f3)...something like that.....maybe a simpler way?????