New MPC One owner with a couple of questions

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New MPC One owner with a couple of questions

By bliss000 Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:18 pm
Hey,

Just added an MPC One as the centre of my new setup (Abyss + Nyx). Two questions:

1 - So far I have sequenced and then sampled 3, 8 bar performances. I'm now trying to create a 16 bar part. How is it best to do this? I thought I could select sequence 2 and make it 16 bars whilst sequence 1 plays in the background, but it seems only 1 sequence will play at once. Copy and pasting the 8 bar parts into 16 bars seems like a fiddly solution.

2 - Any way to set the two inputs as 2 mono inputs instead of a stereo pair?

Thanks for any help :smoker:

Re: New MPC One owner with a couple of questions

By Wardner Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:02 pm
In response to your first question, MPCs have a unique workflow which you just need to read up on. The MPC Bible is what you need, otherwise you're going to have loads of similar questions.

Re: New MPC One owner with a couple of questions

By bliss000 Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:57 pm
Thanks for the replies. Yes, just after posting I decided to take the desperate measure of reading/skimming the manual :-D

I think I have a basic understanding of sequence/track/program. Sequences can't overlap with each other. As I'm making Ambient music I will have to get out of the software DAW habit of starting with 4/8 bar loops, then expanding and instead make my sequences 32/64 bars long to allow for long jams/drones.

Any idea how to make the inputs mono for monitoring? My Nyx is panned hard right and my Abyss hard left. When I set record for one input the recording is panned dead centre, which is great.
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Re: New MPC One owner with a couple of questions

By Lampdog Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:59 am
bliss000 wrote:I decided to take the desperate measure of reading/skimming the manual.....

It should have been the FIRST thing to check after purchasing the gear. :evil:
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Re: New MPC One owner with a couple of questions

By antic604 Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:40 am
Lampdog wrote:
bliss000 wrote:I decided to take the desperate measure of reading/skimming the manual.....

It should have been the FIRST thing to check after purchasing the gear. :evil:


It's actually the first thing to do BEFORE purchasing any gear :)

Re: New MPC One owner with a couple of questions

By solrac Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:16 am
bliss000 wrote:Hey,

Just added an MPC One as the centre of my new setup (Abyss + Nyx). Two questions:

1 - So far I have sequenced and then sampled 3, 8 bar performances. I'm now trying to create a 16 bar part. How is it best to do this? I thought I could select sequence 2 and make it 16 bars whilst sequence 1 plays in the background, but it seems only 1 sequence will play at once. Copy and pasting the 8 bar parts into 16 bars seems like a fiddly solution.

Thanks for any help :smoker:


Tube Digga has some good techniques on this... check out his 1 sequence workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Uet3zSUq8

Or he also does a good job of explaining the concept of sequences, tracks, programs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSjsWS7Nj00
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