crisb1000 wrote:If i made one 4 bar loop in a 8 bar pattern, it kept playing!
i had to insert a rest to have it play only once.
It made more sense to me, and i every other sequencer I've used,
to create the loop, then paste or copy it a specified number of times.
What you describe here is EXACTLY what we are asking for with the Individual
Track per length.
1) the request shows that we want to be able to turn this feature on and off. Their are
reasons why you would want the 4 bar loop to play in the 1st 4 bars of an 8bar loop only,
but there are also reasons why you would want it to repeat.
2). Copying and pasting wastes notes. There's a limited amount of notes that the
MPC will hold.
3). The ability to have seperate tracklengths can provide a bunch of variety in a track.
For example you can have 1 track looping 3 bars and the other looping 13 bars. It will
be 39 bars until these 2 loops repeat each other. That's with just 2 Tracks with different
lenghts. Now throw in the ability to have 128 Tracks all with different lengths.
Can we say NOODLE
It could be quite sometime until any of these repeat themselves.
If you just copy and paste all the bars out to 1 big loop that are all the same length, then
it WILL sound more static.
The individual Track Length is is a great feature for Ambient music, but can be benefited
from all styles (Electro, Techno, Hip Hop, Jazz,House, etc... ).
Reptition is good, but tooo much repition is NOT
Here's what I've used this feature for (before the MPC), for an example:
Let's say that I'm trying to tweek my SE ATC-1, via Midi CC 105 which is the
ATC's Filter Cutoff Midid CC.
The actual Midi Notes that are triggering the ATC are probably 16 or 32 steps or 1 or 2 bars
as I usually use a Hardware StepSequence to program the notes for it.
Now I record those 1 or 2 bars into the MPC so that the ATC's notes are triggered from
the ATC.
I then go about on let's say 4 tracks, and record me tweaking Midi CC 105 on the same
midi channel as the ATC is set. I record 4 different Tweaks into the 4 MPC tracks and
set them to the same Mute Group. Now I have 4 completely different variations of the
acid line or bass line that I am using, Only problem with the current MPC design is:
1.) All the ATC's filter cutoff tracks have to be the same length. Not natural or necessary
except by the MPC's sequencer design.
2) Odd numbers don't paste well together. I end up having to figure out the Lowest Common Denominator. I really don't want to be doing Math while making music... Music is math as it is
If one tweak is 3 bars and another is 13, then I will have to copy and paste both tracks
out to 39 in order for them to be the same length. As you start adding more and more
tracks, this math becomes more complicated.
So with the above, we might have 1 filter tweak that's 3 bars, another that is 5 bars,
another that is 13 bars and another that is 128bars, plus the actual notes of the
instrument is a 2 bar loop.
That's a lot of copying and pasting and wasting space and time to do figure out and apply,
when one should be able to just turn on this feature and it's resolved.
Cheers...
Dave
