'Track Mute' Use?

Ok, I've got a house groove going.. Now I want to mute and be able to bring in different elements of the tune.

I press Track Mute and it brings up the 16 tracks, But instead of the tracks reflecting the different pads and samples it just has the one 'Track-01' on pad 1.. If I mute that the whole track stops.. Basically they are not all seperate.

Why? And how do I change this?!

Devontodetroit wrote:Ok, I've got a house groove going.. Now I want to mute and be able to bring in different elements of the tune.

I press Track Mute and it brings up the 16 tracks, But instead of the tracks reflecting the different pads and samples it just has the one 'Track-01' on pad 1.. If I mute that the whole track stops.. Basically they are not all seperate.

Why? And how do I change this?!

record your different elements on different tracks.

you can use the selective copy/paste (only selecting one note at a time) to copy your already recorded sequence to new tracks.

I've looked everywhere on how to do that, what menu is that in?

main screen -> edit.

time to bust out the manual.

here's how it's gonna work:
lets say for example you got a kick on pad 1, snare on pad 2, hat on pad 3, and key on pad 4. you've made an entire sequence using that, and you mistakenly did it all on track 1. now you want to break it up into other tracks so you can mute the individual pieces.

go to main screen.
select track 1.
hit 'edit' button.
make sure the operation up top is set to 'copy'.
on the bottom it will say 'all notes'. scroll down to this, and hit pad 1. now you have selected to only process pad 1.
go to the top right, and set the destination to track 2. make sure it is on REPLACE.
hit do it.
now only your kick drum (pad 1) has been copied to track 2.

now repeat the process from track 1, for each pad / instrument. copy each sound to a different track (snare on trk3, hat trk4, key trk5, etc...).

if you want to get fancy with it, you can make use of the MERGE function instead of replace. so for example, if you have two layered snares, you would copy the first one to a new track using replace, then copy the second one to the same track using merge.

finally, mute your original track (containing all sounds) so you don't hear it doubled with your new, separate tracks.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain that to me mate..

I've still got loads to learn about this machine!

tapedeck wrote:record your different elements on different tracks

Start again and follow tapedecks advice.

For example:

Track 1= 909 Kick
Track 2= 808 Snare
Track 3= 808 Closed high hat
Track 4= 808 Open high hat
Track 5= 808 Clap
Track 6= Sample A
Track 7= Sample B
Track 8= Bass

Track 9= 909 Kick 2
Track 10= Snare 2
Track 11= 808 Cowbell
Track 12= Shaker
Track 13= Cymbal

Some people prefer to program all their drums onto a single track and then split the elements onto seperate tracks afterwards.

Once you know what you're doing just do whatever suits your workflow, the end result will be the same.

If you have the 8 outputs arranging your elements in groups of 8 tracks makes tracking out a breeze.

one thing I often try to do in order to keep the project tidy.. is .. record each pad's sound on it's own track and the same track number the pad is... so kick is on pad 1? well it will also be on track 1. high hat on pad 2? well high hat is track 2 as well then.

It can get tough though with the sample's track as it often is done with several sample chops from different pads but once you develop your own default system of what goes on what track it will become second nature when muting and unmuting things... I like to try and remember ahead of time to keep the same elements on the usual pads so the pad layout is the same from project to project.

Then I assume you can set each track to come out of a different output on the 8 out expansion board?

Devontodetroit wrote:Then I assume you can set each track to come out of a different output on the 8 out expansion board?

no.
you actually set each pad to come out a particular output.

it sounds backwards at first, but it's actually really useful. it basically means that, if you wanted, you could keep all your drum sounds on one track, then instead of using track mute, use an actual mixer.

even with the 8 outs, i still prefer to keep separate sounds on different tracks.

you should take an evening and read the manual front to back, you will learn a lot.

Yeah, I've read a lot of the manual.. I've also got the 'making beats on the mpc 2000' book too.

I've just bought a vintage 8 track Allen and Heath mixer so hopefully won't need to faff about so much with the tracks.

One last question tho, can you just make a blank program with all the tracks assigned already, like a template program so you could load it at the star of each session to save all the assigning each time?

that is a good idea actually... yeah you could do that.