Can MPC do a "chorder" (one note to chord)?

Hi folks,

When doing house and garage production, i often need to be able to play a chord by just hitting one key on my midi controller, or alternatively on an MPC pad.

So what i mean is, i would just hit C3, but it will play a C minor 7 chord.

This is useful because you can play in a chord live more percussively.

I know i could just play the chord, then quantize it, but this gives a different vibe when you're producing.

And of course i could also just sample the chord then play that sample. But this will sound different when transposing the chord, unless you multisample it. And doesn't give the option of messing around with different chords.

But is there any way to do this without the quantize or sample method?

It's something that's quite easy to set up in a DAW with a midi plugin!

Thanks!

Yes, you can play chords with one pad, load chord progressions and play them pad wise (tons of nice chord progressions out there,check the 2nd youtube channel in the links)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhK55pI3bu4
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVHa ... IjOZ0PsiVJ

elstebbano wrote:Yes, you can play chords with one pad, load chord progressions and play them pad wise (tons of nice chord progressions out there,check the 2nd youtube channel in the links)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhK55pI3bu4
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVHa ... IjOZ0PsiVJ

Thanks!

And is it possible to just manually choose the notes of each chord in standalone mode? I like to find chords I want to use on my midi keyboard so I don’t want to work with preset chord sequences.

You can create your own 'progressions' in addition to the preset chord progressions provided, just create the progression as a MIDI track and convert it to a progression file (MAIN > Track row pencil > Convert to Progression). Do a search in the manual for 'progressions' and come back if you need more help - the playlist linked to previously also has a guide to progressions in the first video.

It would take some preparation but you can create your own chord banks. You don't necessarily have to use the progressions as sequences. You could do one chord per progression for rapid scrolling or a chord with its inversions or multiple chords with inversions.

If you want the ability to arpeggiate your chords you could the map notes across pad 1 through 4.
For 5 note chords I like to use the L pattern. Depending on whether you want a left hand or right hand chord. Right hand arpeggiated 5 note chords are pad 1 5 6 7 8 and pad 9 13 14 15 16. Flip around for left hand.
You got 32 pads to use in bank A and bank B so you can have at least 4 chords this way. Or 8 chords if you are using 4. Or you can combine and have 5 note chords and 4 note chords etc etc....