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By calebnlbaker Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:49 pm
What I want to do:

-Map a bank of 16 mpc pads to 16 corresponding logic tracks

-apply logic effects to those tracks (like a compressor on one, a tape delay on another)

-be able to achieve side chain compression in this way using logic's compressor and side chaining capabilities

What I don't want to do:

-I am not interested in recording. I just want to play live.

-I don't need my mpc and logic synced so that I can hit play on either and the other will play too, that's not what I need.

What I am using:

-MPC 1000 running the most recent akai OS, not JJOS

-Logic Pro 8

-M-Audio MIDI interface


Thanks to anyone who can help me. I just want to be able to achieve side chain compression on my mpc, so that when I hit the kick and snare pads, the other samples on other pads duck down. Can't find any videos or threads that teach this.
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By SimonInAustralia Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:22 pm
Not sure if you have thought this through, or if I understand exactly what you are trying to achieve.

The MPC1000 only has 6 audio outputs.

How are you going to send audio from 16 MPC pads, to 16 Logic tracks, through only 6 audio outputs?

Or are you talking about sending MIDI into the 16 Logic tracks, and generating sounds from 16 instrument tracks in Logic?
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By SimonInAustralia Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:31 pm
Well, don't think that you can send 16 different MIDI channels from a single bank of 16 MPC1000 pads, as the MIDI channel assignment relates to the selected MPC1000 track, not to individual pads.

If you really want 16 MPC1000 pads to send a MIDI note to 16 Logic instrument tracks, you would probably need to re-route the MIDI within the Logic Environment, so that it splits out the MIDI note on/off messages to each separate Logic track, based on the MIDI note number of each pad.

Someone else might have an easier/better solution.
By calebnlbaker Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:48 pm
Ok Maybe I can simplify this a bit. I really only want to get side chain compression on the mpc. But the mpc 1000 doesnt have that. So then I got the idea of trying to use logics compressor in conjuction with the mpc.

So I don't really care whether its midi or audio or all sixteen pads or just a few. I just want to have a few samples on my mpc that will duck down when I hit the drum hits on mpc. I want it live too. That's the key part

It seems simple but I'm starting to think that I will never be able to have live side chain compression on any of my mpc productions.

Thanks for any more help you can give me.