Feature Suggestions: MPC Renaissance

LMSW, have you ever worked with an mpc before? A lot of stuff you're asking about is normal mpc functioning. If all you used before was Maschine then I can understand but seems like the Ren is your first mpc, maybe just get familiar with the basics first.

InspectahEX wrote:LMSW, have you ever worked with an mpc before? A lot of stuff you're asking about is normal mpc functioning. If all you used before was Maschine then I can understand but seems like the Ren is your first mpc, maybe just get familiar with the basics first.

Yes--over 10 years with MPCs (2000 and 4000).

I thought Ren would be more of a hybrid between MPC technology and Maschine technology. Maschine caused me to stop using my MPC 4000. I have forgotten the drudgery of the 4000, but I guess it was a reason I was quick to put it down once I learned Maschine. I have to refamiliarize myself with the old way I used to work on my MPC 4000 if I want to use the MPC Ren, you are correct.

This is the process I and others were referring too.


A point to say in all of this is that this isn`t a recent request after the release of the Ren. No way!! The request was made back many months before the release and it was discuss and we thought at the time that it had been included until now.


The chop shop that Ren has now is very advanced and can do way more than any hardware mpc can and that is great news. No one is knocking that it is all good.

Now if you set up your mpc Ren in front of your computer and edit everything on the big screen that is excellent and the Ren excels. However if you set the Ren aside far from the computer and you are working just on the hardware duplicate is a very good option to have to edit by ear. It is a timesaver if you are working with long samples or you want to grab from different sections of a whole song.

That said those of you that have received your Ren congratulations and bang on.

But this isn`t a new subject case in point there is a reason you have pad copy on the front panel with the shift button instead of it just being a mode push within program edit like every mpc ever made in the past. Cuz it was discussed in length to be the duplicate button and since the lack of buttons for a dedicate function wasn`t there so Pad copy plus shift was decided instead.

No mpc has a pad copy button on the front panel before cuz that wasn`t an all important function before for users when sequencing a pattern or editing samples.

The pad copy was meant for duplicate not what is being told now as copying filters and envelope settings to the next pads. Cmon that option wouldn`t be necessary to have it`s own button? Anyways OS 1.0 doesn`t have it. And it isn`t a deal breaker I hope 1.1 does.

It will give the mpc Ren and Studio users just a great option for editing just on the hardware without the need for the computer monitor. But it is an request I hope again gets fulfilled.

Blue Haze wrote:A point to say in all of this is that this isn`t a recent request after the release of the Ren. No way!! The request was made back many months before the release and it was discuss and we thought at the time that it had been included until now.

Yes. And this is what came out of the conversation:

xparis001 wrote:

Luigi wrote:

copy pad copies the parameters of the pad and uses the same sample.

is this like filter, pan, velocity etc? or the sample start and end point?

when you chop a sample non-destructively, you get multiple copies of the same sample.

I know nothing about programing but whuldent it be less power consuming having just one sample, but using multiple and diffrent start and end points, instead of 16 samples of the same thing?

1. yes, exactly

2. multiple start / end points dont work if you want to, say, normalize one part, pitch it down, do a fade out, or whatever. this way, if you want to edit the sample of just one pad, you can.

I watched the threads unfold. I saw there was miscommunication no matter how many times it was explained. I got dissed/ignored when I gave my two cents.....the results?

MPCs copy pads and duplicate samples; two different functions

Maschine duplicates the entire pad (sound slot); it does not copy samples the way an MPC does as it is not necessary. Each sound slot is edited independently to include samples.

The easiest for Akai to accomplish what Maschine does in this aspect would be to:
Combine Pad Copy and Sample Copy into one function. Or combine Assign and Sample Copy into one function.

To re-write a core part of the MPC code to allow an identical sample (same name) to load multiple times and be assigned to multiple pads and then edited in Sample Edit Mode independently....will likely never happen.

Thanks again for your support with this Jah, you are the man! Now, back to my Ren.

lol.
Often imitated but never what?

b-righteous wrote:lol.
Often imitated but never what?

Taken time away from your other duties I see. I have the same sig in the other forum(s) that you have seen numerous times over the past 8 months.

What features requests do you have Mr. Righteous?

I haven't found a way to copy a track (all events, mixer settings, plugins, etc) to another sequence. I can copy the events of a track to another track on another sequence, and I can copy everything (all events, mixer settings, plugins, etc) on a track to another track in the same sequence.

Is this possible without copying the entire sequence?
If not, definitely think this would be a great add.

Would like to see the following:

1) Mouse scroll wheel horizontal zoom when sample editing
2) Vertical waveform zoom
3) Manual slice points in chopping
4) Controllable chop 'Release' similar to Recycle and MPC1000, which creates an additive decay at the end of each chop to eliminate 'choppiness'. Different to the release in ADSR.

Auto save would be nice

MPC-Tutor wrote:Would like to see the following:

1) Mouse scroll wheel horizontal zoom when sample editing
2) Vertical waveform zoom
3) Manual slice points in chopping
4) Controllable chop 'Release' similar to Recycle and MPC1000, which creates an additive decay at the end of each chop to eliminate 'choppiness'. Different to the release in ADSR.

When I get half an hour I will attempt to compile all suggestions so far into the first post so we can all see a summary of exactly what's been asked for.

Is it me or does the metronome click seem low (I have it all the way turned up on the software)?

Metronome seems fine to me

Is there a way to adjust the screen contrast? Just wondering, if not I wouldnt mind that feature