Can you load your own samples across the LPD8 pads to make y

Ok, I asked this over at GS but I'm not getting any bites over there.

Short and sweet, I want to know if I can load my own samples across the LPD8's pads to make your own drum kit? I guess via the LPD8 editor? I'm using Reaper with Reapers SamplOmatic, and/or Kontakt Player to do this. I don't actually have the LPD8 in my possession yet so I can't test what I'm asking.

Can somebody please break it down for me step by step?

Gracious for any input!

yes but i think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the lpd8 is - it is not a sampler you assign samples to, it is just a controller.

so you would load up the samples into a sampler like something in reaper or logic or ableton or kontakt or whatever, and then either assign them to the keys that the lpd8 maps to, or use the lpd8 editor to change the lpd8 keys to map to the keys where your samples are loaded.

though it will vary with different samplers.

but yes, you can use the 8 lpd8 pads to trigger your samples.

Hey thanks for taking the time to reply tapedeck. I know it's just a midi controller I was just unsure how loading your own samples all worked from a software sampler. After working with it today I finally grasped it.

I was using my current lpk25 for testing. I loaded up Samplomatic in reaper and basically just as you said, mapped out my drum samples onto the corresponding notes. So i just set a note beginning/end in samplomatic to 48 (C3) for my kick drum. then 50 note beginning/end for the snare, 54 for the hihat etc... until I had my drum kit. As far as the lpd8's editor I would imagine that you have to change the pad note assignment that you want a particular sample on as the same value that your vst sampler is on. For example if I want my lpd8's pad 1 to be a my kick drum sample i have loaded up in Samplomatic that's on 48 (C3) i change the value to C3 on the LPD8 as well and bang.

Cicatrix wrote: As far as the lpd8's editor I would imagine that you have to change the pad note assignment that you want a particular sample on as the same value that your vst sampler is on. For example if I want my lpd8's pad 1 to be a my kick drum sample i have loaded up in Samplomatic that's on 48 (C3) i change the value to C3 on the LPD8 as well and bang.

correct - or just assign the sample to the note already assigned...either way works.

personally, i would put more effort into assigning my samples properly vs having to load up new lpd8 setups for each different project. basically find an lpd8 setup that works and keep it.

glad you figured it out and thanks for posting the details of your solution

Yeah I was ampered up all day when I finally figured it all out.

Thanks again for the tips!

I use all my MIDI pad controllers and MPC's interchangeably to control sounds in the PC. I've generally found that if you want to make templates starting at MIDI note 36 on pad 1 and going chromatically from there gets you the most instant compatibility with various software. Kong, Live Drum Racks, most drum VST's and so on.

Metatron72 wrote:I've generally found that if you want to make templates starting at MIDI note 36 on pad 1 and going chromatically from there gets you the most instant compatibility with various software.

knowledge!
it still baffles me why the midi note assignments on the xl are so f'd up and seemingly random.

tapedeck wrote:

Metatron72 wrote:I've generally found that if you want to make templates starting at MIDI note 36 on pad 1 and going chromatically from there gets you the most instant compatibility with various software.

knowledge!
it still baffles me why the midi note assignments on the xl are so f'd up and seemingly random.

Far as I can tell it's just a carryover from the General MIDI 80's mappings. Likely a concession to the first multi timbral boards so a guy could do his cover band with no drummer.

It's funny you still occasionally see it in software like MOTU's BPM. When I got it I looked at the mapping and thought, "uhh cool it maps perfectly to my 2000XL's layout, that's not particularly useful when most software maps chromatically."

I suppose Battery goes the GM mapped route as well. On that one I just make four rows color coded and start at note 36. One of these days I'll re-drag the factory cells and save those. But for my samples it's great because any MPC here as well as the MPD I have, the bank switches work from jump with the template. Come to think of it that template was my first post here. Link went down with Megaupload.