Feature Suggestions: MPC Renaissance

pitchshift preview &undo

Please add a list edit of events like previous mpcs(step edit)
Can't understand wht this was taken out.

Top 5 new features I'd appreciate as highly as possible:

* 24 Bit sampling
* purge function
* pre-record for resampling
* possibility to handle multiple files (deleting / saving / ... programs, samples etc.)
* hardware zoom

I think it's a little annoying when step sequencing to have to go out of step sequencing, choose a pad and go to step sequencing again when you want to change the pad being used. I think it would be a little more intuitive if while you are in step seq mode, you press Shift + a pad to select that new pad (and play the sound of that pad when selecting). That way you don't have to leave step sequencing every time you want to sequence a new pad.

I don't ever think the Ren will have full DAW capability, but there should be some more improvments...

1. To have the abiliy to create AUX tracks if your using a large VST's such as KONTAKT. You would re-route 16 mutliple out to stereo/mono AUX tracks in the Rens Program Mixer.

IamEdGlass wrote:You would re-route 16 mutliple out to stereo/mono AUX tracks in the Rens Program Mixer.

YES should be implemented as a lot of plugins has multiple outputs ( Kontakt, trillian, omnisphere, stylus RMX etc... )

In sample EDIT pressing the pad "play loop" should play the entire loop and stop it if pressed a second time. Holding the Pad is a bit tiring and source of pain in arms.

Multiple sample selection in the sample edit applet, for multiple files delete and/or Purge unused sample.

In sample edit, A pad "play loop near from end" should be usefull and quicker as playing the entire loop ( If working with a 4bars loop, could be so cool ).

toxicc wrote:you press Shift + a pad to select that new pad (and play the sound of that pad when selecting). That way you don't have to leave step sequencing every time you want to sequence a new pad.

Nice idea, this is why I don't use the ren step sequencer, to complicated actually. Switching between bars from the hardware is heavy to while working in 1/16 TC.

I'm pretty sure the Ren will become sexy !

JAH wrote:I have been wondering if any of the Ren users have actually used MPCs in the past.

DO IT ! Can I feed the troll ? Select START on the hardware and turn the knob, look !


- One knob "auto dope beatmaking from hell" should be added for MCs !

I'd like to see something added to the MPC Song Mode, the ability to trigger sequences live (like a performance) and have the option to record that live triggering. As demonstrated here with Cakewalk's Project5 2.5

Not only would I like it to work similarly to what you see in the video, but I'd like to take that a step further to something possibly never done before. Lets say we create a 4 bar sequence, then we move to Song Mode with that single sequence.

From here, we Solo or Mute down to one or two tracks, which create the feel of our intro for this song. Hit Record/Play on the transport, trigger the Pad our sequence is assigned to and the MPC begins recording the playback of the 4 bar Sequence, (in its linear fashion), into a Measure recording which we will call our 'Song Track'.

As the MPC records this single 4 bar Sequence into what will be our 'Song Track', we would be able to bring in, or eliminate elements from our tracks simply by triggering Mutes and/or Solos. With that, we create our Verses, Hooks, Breaks...ect.

By Muting/Soloing, we would actually allow or prevent the Midi events in those tracks from being recorded to our new 'Song track' which again contains all those elements from the Sequence.

Further adding to the thought, Using Over Dub in Song Mode could be used to record overlaps/layers into the Song Track from other Banks and/or Sequences.

I think this recording method would allow us to create songs in a more than lightning fast way!

Another Cakewalk Program (Seen here) came close to doing this, but not quite. Even so, seeing it in action could give you a better picture of what I'm talking about doing here.

I'm truly new to the MPC, so I'm not sure if this is already possible; as far as I can tell it isn't.

Still, I think this would only add to the Beastly recording abilities MPC's are known for... while putting the ReN itself further into a world of its own and with nothing else even coming close to touching it!

We can call it the option to record in 'Nu Song Mode' or "The art of fighting without fighting" and still have the Classic Song Mode as well! Akai "Do It!"

A little fix, When closing a project, the software always ask for saving even if you just save your project, anyone noticed that detail ?

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yes very important would be that any changes of the qlinks edit for plug ins should be memorized with the plug in...

the idea to edit a softsynth with the qlinks is greate!!! please let us save the custom qlinks and export the custom mappings...[/quote]
this already works you just have to save it as presets

U sould be able to timestrech/pitchshift each slice individually by selecting that slice like on Kontakt. where the timestrech and pitchshift is a rottary button not a function button. this makes it more realtime and works like the normal pitching.

comtox wrote:A little fix, When closing a project, the software always ask for saving even if you just save your project, anyone noticed that detail ?

Yep!

Record automation on programmes/track fx etc
Not just individual pads - maybe something like groups on the 4k. Really frustrating that you can't record stuff filter automation across a whole chop, only one pad at a time...

Export from plugin in DAW

Midi out from plugin in DAW

Otherwise - amazing

I've only had my MPC R for a couple days now and here's the start of my list:
Native Instruments support - can't select sounds in Massive and FM8 from the MPC screen. I can easily get to the sounds in my Korg Legacy Collection.

So far, I've only experienced crashes when I use plugins. The larger the samples, the more unstable the system is.

Running an MacBook Pro i5 processor with 8Gb of RAM.

May I add the VST AU instrument feature is cool, but it seems I'm doing too many clicks to add a simple VST/AU instrument plugin. Surely this could be a simple drop down list of instruments or a wheel turn on the MPC Studio.