Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
By jigzelmnt Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:33 pm
Ok, quick question. I know the potential answer, but would like to see if there is an easier way than having to create double programs. I had always used reason and would have one sampler and a few different tracks for that sampler. This allowed me to record a sample progression on one track, then click on track two, and layer some of those same samples over the progression already created in track one. It seems that on the mpc2500, once I create a program as mono where one sample stops when another starts, and I record a progression of chops into say track 1, when I try to use that same program on track two to layer some of the samples, it comletely does not like that. The samples from program one stop and get all screwed up. Is there any type of setting or anyway around making copies of those same samples and creating a new program?
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By Lampdog Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:57 pm
Change that 1 program to poly maybe.

Or if you need the new samples to act poly then make a 2nd poly.
By jigzelmnt Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:24 pm
Well the thing is, if I change them to poly, the samples within that same track will overlap and will not cut off as one starts to play. Then I will have a big mess of a sound rather than a nice sequence lol.
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By bicedidit Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:28 pm
phx_chronic wrote:just copy the program and use that one to layer


yea. just make a new program or use another pad bank
By jigzelmnt Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:22 pm
if I put them in the same program but in a different pad bank that issue will still persists as the overall type of the program is mono which will remain if those samples are within that same program, but on a different bank.

Yea, as I stated originally, I know creating or copying another program would resolve this issue, but wanted to see if there was another suggestion. Mute groups may actually resolve this, but I am not 100% of that. If I maybe make the global value poly, and make the first samples in sequence #1 individually mono in mute group 1, and then do the same for the layered samples, but put them in mute group #2, maybe I will have the result I want. Does anyone know if this will work? Just kind of thinking out loud here.