Forum to discuss all matters relating to the MPC1000 and MPC2500 operating systems created by 'JJ' (all versions).
By HelgenX Fri Dec 16, 2016 9:05 pm
Hey all, nice forum!

Here's the deal. I've been recently using my MPC 1000XL with JJOS off the bat, never used the original. I have been tirelessly looking at faqs and videos daily and I'm getting the hang of sample and chopping and what not.

Only real problem I have right now is that let's say I record a sample then assign the pads from a drum loop, I chop the hats and kicks and snares down to get each of them on the pad and go to record the sequence.
I start with the hats. I record the hats on track 1 or 2, either one. Now when I go to use the kicks and snares while playing the hat sequence, the kick and snare (or basically any other sound from this same sample) get cut off and I can't hear them fully.

I heard I should set it to poly, but there happens to be a sound at the end of my snare I want to keep but don't want it to always overlap every time I press it.

How can I prevent this from happening? Am I doing something wrong?
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By Bugfix Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:01 am
HelgenX wrote:How can I prevent this from happening?


sample in mono (unless there is stereo content you want to hold)
trim your samples tight
make separate drums (hats, kicks) mono (vs polyphonic) in program menu
program upper right corner - POLY (unless it's a monohponic program for purpose)
AMP envelope - set up short release (0-12)

If you do that^^^ you can play samples as one-shots not killing all voices.
also
try to set up some samples as "note on" rather than strictly relaying on "one-shots "