Need A Little Help

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Need A Little Help

By DJ Straxger Sun Dec 22, 2013 1:55 pm
Well obviously I'm new here. I'm a producer and DJ I've been producing for five years now but new to the MPC. I come from using FL Studio (by force not choice I hated FL just couldn't afford a MPC).

Finally able to get one so I got the Ren.

Here's my problem, hopefully it's an easy fix. When I first got my Ren I went right in and made a beat, feeling my way around. I like the beat a lot, a local rapper also liked it and I gave it to him. Problem is, I made the WHOLE beat on one track. Is there a way I can go in and put each sound on a different track? Help would be greatly appreciated.

One other question, is there an alternative way to make my song besides song mode and sequence? The way that I like doing it is track by track placing each track where I want it. Maybe I'm just not used to using the sequence. That's the ONLY thing that I liked about FL Studio. I could put all my sounds on a separate track and place them in the song where I wanted them.

I hope I posted this in the right thread and help would be greatly appreciated. I've got to say that I'm LOVING my MPC. It's everything I thought it would be.

Re: Need A Little Help

By mastasteez Sun Dec 22, 2013 2:15 pm
You could solo each pad and record your internal input on to each track. Don't own a Ren so not sure which menus you need but he manual should definitely cover this.
Good luck
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Re: Need A Little Help

By DJ Straxger Sun Dec 22, 2013 2:17 pm
Thanks for the reply I will try that.

I apologize somehow I missed the getting started forum. Hopefully my topic can be moved. My mistake.
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Re: Need A Little Help

By Kaia Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:37 pm
you can also copy the track to a new track and erease all the notes except the hi hat for example so repeat this step for each pad and the job is done

Re: Need A Little Help

By mastasteez Sun Dec 22, 2013 9:05 pm
Kaia wrote:you can also copy the track to a new track and erease all the notes except the hi hat for example so repeat this step for each pad and the job is done


This way is much more efficient than mine :oops:
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Re: Need A Little Help

By Lampdog Sun Dec 22, 2013 10:58 pm
Alot of people, including me sometimes use that copy track method.
Your on a roll, putting everything on 1 track, then later on you can separate it, it works.
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Re: Need A Little Help

By Lampdog Sun Dec 22, 2013 11:32 pm
No, why would you do that for each sequence, think.
Get that 1st sequence all propered out, then copy that and make seq2.
Throw some edits changes on seq2.

Copy 1st (main) seq again and make seq3.
Throw some edits/changes on seq3.

Copy 1st (main) seq again and make seq4.
Throw some edits/changes on seq4.

Copy 1st (main) seq again and make seq5.
Throw some edits/changes on seq5.

Copy 1st (main) seq again and make seq6.
Throw some edits/changes on seq6.

This will have all your sequences looking the same trackwise. They NEED to be
the same or you will problems later and you'll be back here asking about it. We've covered that scenario several times, you'll have to search it out though.
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Re: Need A Little Help

By DJ Straxger Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:26 am
My bad that was a stupid question. I got it thanks for the help everyone. I knew it was going to be a simple solution.

I agree, this might be a better work flow. Do everything on one track and seperate it later.
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Re: Need A Little Help

By Lampdog Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:35 am
... Or a hybrid of that method plus the way you should be doing it in the first place.

Seq1 trk1 record kik and snare in there just to get the feel of banging on 2 pads at the same time.

Copy trk1 to trk2, erase snr fm trk1 and erase kik fm trk2.
Trk2 will be the separated snr trk.

Seq1 trk3 record only hhat.

Seq1 trk4 record only closehat.

It makes the copy track thing a shorter process cause there's only kik and snr.
I do this all the time.
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Re: Need A Little Help

By DJ Straxger Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:40 am
That sounds smooth especially laying the kick and snare together. I think I'm going to incorporate that into my workflow that I am still working on.
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Re: Need A Little Help

By Lampdog Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:56 am
There's a bunch of different ways to do things and even combine stuff to make the machine do what it wsn't designed to do (Somtimes, not always. Some things are just impossible for an mpc). Once you know what your mpc can do you'll figure out alot more stuff. Manuals give the basics, it's up to you combine those basics and make magic.
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