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By Ex: John Doe Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:02 pm
Hello MPC Forums,

First time on the forum, hope I'm asking this in the right section.

New to the MPC. Working on my first track as a way of learning the ropes. Just wondering if there's a way to get the sounds from 2 or more plugin keygroups in a track. It seems you can't have individual, unique plugin instances running at the same time so wondered if there was a workaround. The parts I want to use are 8 bars long. Thinking it's a case of recording it as a sample then somehow having it loop in a sequence? What's the most efficient way of achieving this?

Thanks for your time.
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By EnochLight Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:17 pm
Ex: John Doe wrote:Hello MPC Forums,

First time on the forum, hope I'm asking this in the right section.

New to the MPC. Working on my first track as a way of learning the ropes. Just wondering if there's a way to get the sounds from 2 or more plugin keygroups in a track. It seems you can't have individual, unique plugin instances running at the same time so wondered if there was a workaround. The parts I want to use are 8 bars long. Thinking it's a case of recording it as a sample then somehow having it loop in a sequence? What's the most efficient way of achieving this?

Thanks for your time.


You can have multiple instances of each plugin (such as Bassline or TubeSynth, etc), up to a total of 8 in standalone, but each requires its own track. Create 8 tracks and assign each their own plugin instance. Fin.

As an aside, each Sequence can have up to 128 tracks (though you're obviously limited to 8 tracks of Plugins in standalone).
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By MPC-Tutor Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:20 pm
Each sequencer track can hold only 1 program (be it plugin, MIDI, keygroup, DRUM or clip etc). Just use additional tracks for each different program that you require. If you want to use different patches of the same plugin make sure you create a different program for that other patch (use the + icon on the program row).