Discuss the various methods you use in music production, from compressor settings to equipment type.
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By mullethed Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:11 am
Ive recently been diggin in them crates and was wondering if it is possible to chop up drums and put them back together perfectly with just the mpc??

I seem to find a hot break or take apart a classic like "skull snaps" (into hats kik, snare 1 +2 etc) and when I put it back togther it has lost that certain somethin?

:cry:

now I dont pretend to know a lot, but could it be the swing? how do I get my hats to swing like those on the track when quantise regiments everyting?

someone put me out of my misery!

cheers

btw: anyone wanna trade classic drum breaks? - the line is open people...

m*
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By mullethed Fri Jun 20, 2003 5:46 pm
c'mon someone must have a fair Idea ..... :cry:

By elmacaco Fri Jun 20, 2003 5:48 pm
well, you are cutting away the silence between the hits, which isn't really silence,

also make sure your quantizing isn't interfering.
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By MPC-Tutor Fri Jun 20, 2003 6:34 pm
It is possible on the MPC - but once you've used Recycle, you'l realise how primitive the MPC is for this sort of stuff. Recycle not olny chops the break into hits, it adds artificial decay to stretch out the hit (hence no audio gaps) and then creates a MIDI file to recreate the loop exactly.

Once you've exported the MIDI file and chops you can recreate the loop in your MPC - I might do a tutorial about this - it's how I did all the loops in Breaks n Bass and Tripped Out Beats
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By Dr.Foo Fri Jun 20, 2003 7:14 pm
Yo tutor. I've been workin with recycle too, and whnever I load up the midi file, parts of the beat are there, but not the whole beat, what gives?
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By Gambles Fri Jun 20, 2003 7:27 pm
Tutor,

That sounds like a great tutorial fo sure!

Uno/1

gams
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By MPC-Tutor Fri Jun 20, 2003 8:52 pm
Dr Foo

The beats disappear because the MIDI file generated by Recycle starts at note 36 and runs in order (36, 37, 38, etc). The note numbers on the MPC pads unfortunately do not, they go 37, 36, 42, 82 etc. To remedy this, I have a blank program I use that has the notes re-numbered in order - I load this up before I assign anything.

I'll look into doing this tutorial ASAP
By puke Fri Jun 20, 2003 9:55 pm
i would greatly appreciate a recycle tutorial..

GREATLY APPRECIATE IT.

wordup.

By BreakMyFever Sat Jun 21, 2003 5:53 pm
I would also greatly appreciate a ReCycle tutorial.