By Blue Haze
Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:58 pm
Blue Haze wrote:Once you chop up or recycle a drum loop tightly you can get the drummer's timing aka groove. Live drum playing is way funkier than any mpc swing or shift. Old school way to do this was to turn mpc timing off, load up funky drummer loop, play your own drum kit over the top to get the midi pattern down, then simply turn the funky drummer loop off while retaining the pattern with your drums. Recycle came out and made it easier to just save the pattern and insert your drums.
Thence alot of mpc functions came from this Pad Assign anyone, midi sequence exports and imports, separate tracks in a midi file. Each time the artists were doing creative functions for the art, akai added these later additional workflows to the mpc line.
Nowadays most DAWs have a build in slicer like logic where I can take like Kool and the Gang's NT drum loop, get the midi timing as a groove template that I can apply to not only to my Ren drums midi file exported into logic but the baseline, keys, and other parts. I can do it in logic, Live, and so on just that it would be nice in drum machine.
