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By Metatron72 Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:57 pm
Buy Melodyne or Live 9, or join an order that may confer magical powers as the others have suggested. :lol:

First two suggestion I made are slam dunks, the latter one your mileage may vary.
By TT_Lab Sun Jun 30, 2013 1:38 am
Hey mate!
I think you are asking for resampling (forgive me if I am wrong). Yo go to sample record and there where it puts external choose resample. then record then press play. stop when it finishes and you have your midi triggered instrument in a audio file.
Hope that is what you were asking for.
If not :Sigh:
By MiniDX Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:52 am
no he wants audio tracks and freezing midi tracks into audio.

Studio one does it for example.

You have your midi tracks with a hardware or a vst going on, you edit it and when you're happy you can convert into audio in 2 clicks. it will freeze the midi one, it will be greyed/muted and you could still raise it up if you needed to come back to it later.
It allows to unload cpu charge and use monotimbral hardware.
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By SimonInAustralia Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:37 pm
**** audio tracks, it is a sequence based MPC, not a linear time based DAW.

MPC Software already has tracks that play back audio, drum tracks and keygroup tracks.

It needs to be able to record new samples in sync with existing sequences.

The Direct Recording/Place Event feature seems more appropriate to the MPC sequence based workflow, and much easier to implement.

Akai should implement that before audio tracks.
By MiniDX Sun Nov 10, 2013 6:29 pm
Well what i want exactly is :

when i have a midi sequence playing with my hardware or software synth, have an option to create immediately a sample of the sequence (and only this one) onto the next unused track, and mute instantly the midi track.

Currently i have to mute all tracks except the midi sequence, go to sample rec, play it, edit it, back to main view, switch track mode, remove midi notes, place sample...

It could be so much easier only with this.
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By SimonInAustralia Sun Nov 10, 2013 9:03 pm
MiniDX wrote:Currently i have to mute all tracks except the midi sequence,

Can you solo the MIDI track, rather than muting everything else?


MiniDX wrote:go to sample rec, play it, edit it, back to main view, switch track mode, remove midi notes, place sample...

Previous hardware MPCs had a feature called Direct Recording/Place Event.

This automatically placed an event in the sequencer to trigger the newly recorded sample in sync with the sequence, in the same place in the sequence that the recording was started.

I think that an expanded Direct Recording/Place Event feature could be setup to do what you want.

It could have a trim mode, so that you could trim off the start of the sample, before placing the event into the sequencer to trigger it at the correct newly-trimmed location.

I would also like to see the trim mode be able to trim to sequence quantize points, and have a preset punch in/out setting.
By MiniDX Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:10 pm
SimonInAustralia wrote:
MiniDX wrote:Currently i have to mute all tracks except the midi sequence,

Can you solo the MIDI track, rather than muting everything else?


You can do that but it depends. Sometimes you want to record 2 midi tracks together from 2 instruments, or more.
And anyways, after your sample is up, you will mute the midi one or erase it so it doesn't matter. You have to do many steps.

What would be nice to implement is an easy and fast conversion. Say you have a "convert to sample" button on your midi track, and when you press it, it will :
- mute every other tracks
- create another track for a sample and a new program
- create instantly a sample of the midi track and your instrument and place it on the new one
- "freeze"/mute the midi track
- demute other tracks
- tell you "Sample X was assigned to program X", "Track X was created"

All that with one button. I don't wanna sound lazy, that's what studio one and cubase and many DAW actually do with "freeze" option, except they are creating audio tracks.


SimonInAustralia wrote:
MiniDX wrote:go to sample rec, play it, edit it, back to main view, switch track mode, remove midi notes, place sample...

Previous hardware MPCs had a feature called Direct Recording/Place Event.

This automatically placed an event in the sequencer to trigger the newly recorded sample in sync with the sequence, in the same place in the sequence that the recording was started.

I think that an expanded Direct Recording/Place Event feature could be setup to do what you want.

It could have a trim mode, so that you could trim off the start of the sample, before placing the event into the sequencer to trigger it at the correct newly-trimmed location.

I would also like to see the trim mode be able to trim to sequence quantize points, and have a preset punch in/out setting.


Yes thaat would be awesome! great idea.