Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
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By MoreBuck$ Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:22 pm
Hey,
Putting together an A/V performance to submit to the British Film Institutes festival, ONEDOTZERO.
Using my 4000 to send MIDI notes to Resolume Avenue via an M-Audio 2x2 MIDIsport.
The audio is routed to my sound system out of the MPC and the Video is sent to a projector from the PC.
I have no trouble syncing the video to audio, as the MIDI setup is rock solid with no delay. Setting up Resolume was easy too, would happily talk anyone through a basic config.

What i want to know is,
1. Could i plug a midi keyboard into my MPC and the MIDI notes it sends go THRU to the PC, E.G. pitch bend etc. thru the MPC and routed to an effect parameter on Resolume?

2. Can i use the Q-Links to simultaneously control a filter on the MPC and a Fade/effect wet/dry in Resolume? Does Q-Link send MIDI information?

3. Do the internal LFOs on the MPC send any sort of midi information? Is there any way to setup the modulation-matrix so LFO's affect MIDI. For example, send LFO affected midi so, say a video fade will go up and down in time with the LFO on a corresponding pad/sample
(Edit:Kinda solved this bit but any help still would be nice)

Couldn't find any info about this through search really, only a few pages about the 1000.
Not got my setup rigged up today so it's all theory until i can test it out later.
Cheers!! :o
Last edited by MoreBuck$ on Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.