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By Retro Styles Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:10 pm
I have a question
Let's say I make a beat in my mpc and pan some pad sounds, then when I track out the channels from the 8 outs into a console /DAW in mono chanels, the pan would exist still or then I must pan the channel at the pan section of the console/DAW?
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By Lampdog Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:16 pm
Setup your channels in your daw.

Stereo sounds in mpc will need 2 mono channels.
MPC will only give you choice of 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8 for stereo sounds.
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By Retro Styles Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:30 pm
My use of language sucks
From the biginning
I make the beat
Then I pan a pad sound that contains a sample's chop hard left for example to make an effect and asign all the pads that contains samples through the first output
So if I want to "transfer" the paned sound I must asign the sample to two outputs to make it stereo and record stereo into the DAW
OR
just in one output and then record it into the DAW in a mono chanell

I WANT TO HEAR ONLY ONE PANED NOTE HARD LEFT, NOT THE ENTIRE CHANEL
By dr4track Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:45 pm
Yes if it is only one note or one chop in a sequence of chops u d want to set it up in stereo. But u d prob b better to record the one note on a mono track, unless ure trying to conserve tracks in ure daw, that way if down the line u don't like the pan effect down the line u can still change it without tracking the whole thing again.
By dr4track Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:17 pm
^ ???? Do you have a hard time with the abbreviations or was it the double "down the line" that u r confused by. English is my first language I'm not sure what was confusing about my response but I ll try again. You have a sequence of chops on a stereo channel pairing that you want to track , correct?
In said sequence one of the chops is panned hard left , correct? U want to track this into your DAW while conserving the hard left pan, correct? Then yes u assign said chops to a stereo pair coming out of the mpc to a stereo track in your DAW and u will hear the result with the hard left pan. But my suggestion was to assign the one chop to a mono channel by itself and track it seperately from the other chops in the DAW, that way if down the line, or in the future, you end up not liking the pan or want it less hard left, u can just adjust the panning in the DAW as opposed to b stuck with a stereo image u can't change without tracking again.
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By SimonInAustralia Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:39 pm
Is it a mono sample to begin with?

Guessing it is, you can pan it in the DAW after recording it, which you will have to do anyway if you want to record the sound as a mono/separate input into the DAW.

Send it to an individual output in the MPC Individual Outputs/Echo Send Mixer, record that output into the DAW, pan it where you want it in the DAW.

If you want to record that mono channel, from an MPC individual output, at the same time as other samples from the MPC stereo output, turn the volume for that pad/sample all the way down in the MPC Stereo Output Mixer.