Discuss the various methods you use in music production, from compressor settings to equipment type.
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By saltmcgault Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:19 pm
What's up? I was trying to multi track a beat last night and I ran into an issue please excuse the **** as I try to explain how I had the settings hoping that you may see what I may be doing wrong. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance for any advice.
I was recording
8 tracks no fx's on any of the tracks.
I believe all samples are in stereo.
I had 2 samples that I had a low pass filter on and they are on their own separate track. tracks 5 & 7.
I pitched the sample on track 7 when I first sampled it.
I went to record in ableton and everything was good until I reached a sequence in song mode where 7out of 8 tracks were playing. Then all of the sudden the kick on track 5 sounds like a fart noise :lol: If I mute 1 or 2 tracks then it would be fine. I thought that maybe I sampled the kick maybe to hot that wasn't the case. I turned the lpf settings on both samples off and no luck. I turned down the volume on tracks 5 & 7 still no luck.
Is it because I just have too many samples playing? maybe convert all samples to mono? I'll do some more trouble shooting and update this post if I figure it out. Thanks.
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By saltmcgault Tue Feb 05, 2019 5:01 am
CharlesRandolph wrote:Sounds like you're running out polyphony. What sampler are you using?


I'm using the MPC2500. I went out of town last weekend so I haven't had a chance to check if all my samples were converted to mono or not. I might do that now while i wait to bid on some equipment on eBay.
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By saltmcgault Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:05 am
i converted all the samples to mono and also took all the filters etc i had off as well. Still sounding a janked. i think im just gonna abort the project i was trying it with and start brand new on something else and try it again something simple and see how it goes.
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By saltmcgault Tue Feb 05, 2019 7:17 am
CharlesRandolph wrote:Sounds like your running out of voices. MPC2500 only has 32 voices. Try trimming up your samples and play sounds in mono.


yea i get lazy sometimes and won’t discard some parts of samples due to maybe using another part of that section i sampled. i’ll try that tomorrow. thanks for the advice! :smoker:
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By Lampdog Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:34 pm
Polyphony.
By CharlesRandolph Tue Feb 05, 2019 5:19 pm
saltmcgault wrote:yea i get lazy sometimes and won’t discard some parts of samples due to maybe using another part of that section i sampled. i’ll try that tomorrow. thanks for the advice! :smoker:


Yes, chop those samples up and do some house cleaning. :lol:


Lampdog wrote:Polyphony.

Chop and Discard. I still do that and my projects load extra fast.
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By Lampdog Tue Feb 05, 2019 5:35 pm
Yep.
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By saltmcgault Wed Feb 06, 2019 5:03 pm
I aborted re-tracking out that beat and I started from scratch on something else with all samples trimmed and converted to mono. Everything seemed to be recording in just fine. I guess I just had a lot of sloppy **** in stereo going on with that beat. Thanks for the advice y'all.
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By Lampdog Wed Feb 06, 2019 5:34 pm
A clean house is a good house.
By CharlesRandolph Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:34 pm
saltmcgault wrote:I aborted re-tracking out that beat and I started from scratch on something else with all samples trimmed and converted to mono. Everything seemed to be recording in just fine. I guess I just had a lot of sloppy **** in stereo going on with that beat. Thanks for the advice y'all.



Nice....now throw some of those synths and drums on the Beat Campling. :lol:
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By saltmcgault Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:25 pm
CharlesRandolph wrote:
saltmcgault wrote:I aborted re-tracking out that beat and I started from scratch on something else with all samples trimmed and converted to mono. Everything seemed to be recording in just fine. I guess I just had a lot of sloppy **** in stereo going on with that beat. Thanks for the advice y'all.



Nice....now throw some of those synths and drums on the Beat Campling. :lol:


For sure! I've been skimming through some of them while at work. There is a lot of dope material to be used. I sampled a lot of drums a while back trimmed them up nice n neat went to save and my mpc started rebooting over and over again. With the help of some cats on here I found out my RAM was jacked, I have a new one and everything seems to be working as it should. Thanks for not cutting me out of the camp ground. :worthy: I appreciate it. I was crate digging and found some old sound effects record with trains, crowds, traffic, airplanes.. etc. etc. I can throw those in there if you think anybody would want to use them. I have a paul nice lost archive vol 1 with a bunch of drum breaks on it.
By CharlesRandolph Thu Feb 07, 2019 1:51 am
saltmcgault wrote:For sure! I've been skimming through some of them while at work. There is a lot of dope material to be used. I sampled a lot of drums a while back trimmed them up nice n neat went to save and my mpc started rebooting over and over again. With the help of some cats on here I found out my RAM was jacked, I have a new one and everything seems to be working as it should.

Thanks for not cutting me out of the camp ground. :worthy: I appreciate it. I was crate digging and found some old sound effects record with trains, crowds, traffic, airplanes.. etc. etc. I can throw those in there if you think anybody would want to use them. I have a paul nice lost archive vol 1 with a bunch of drum breaks on it.


Were they theses records? As far as the cut off, it was for those who put 2 sounds and never put any in. Just want to keep the sharing ground fair. They are welcomed back, they just need to deposit. It's for the active!
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By saltmcgault Thu Feb 07, 2019 4:05 pm
No. I'll post a pic this evening of them.