Good when hitting pads, sounds like slight bitcrush playing

ShengTao wrote:Could playback be at a higher velocity than you are achieving when hitting the pads manually?

Pads are in full level mode and the track midi is all 127 velocity. Should be exactly the same.

Elijah wrote:The problem can be reproduced on my MPC One. It seems to depend on the number of samples or channels in a pad.

1. Place the stereo(original) 808 sample on layer 1 of the pad = With noise

2. Place the mono(stereo>mono) 808 sample on layer 1 of the pad = Without noise

3. Place the mono 808 sample on layer 1 and silenced sample on layer 2 = With noise

Hi Elijah, can you try this with 2.11.2? At step 2, the noise is now still there. But after I added another kick sample on Pad 02 the noise is gone. It definitely behaves differently now. Not better, more confusing in fact.

Elijah wrote:2. Place the mono(stereo>mono) 808 sample on layer 1 of the pad = Without noise

In 2.11, it seems that step 2 have the noise...

Elijah wrote:

Elijah wrote:2. Place the mono(stereo>mono) 808 sample on layer 1 of the pad = Without noise

In 2.11, it seems that step 2 have the noise...

How do you report bugs to the developers? I've always thought the decay was wrong - most of the 0 to 50 range causes a click on low sinewave type sounds. This is another aspect of it.

Hello there,

Does anybody have some news on this, or are having the same problem ?

I'm having the same issue (MPC Live 2), basically when I want to either soften the start by having a longer attack, or when I want the end cutting fast. It's either I have the same bitcrushed sound that the OP is talking about, or a "zip" sound, but with the 2 issues I'm having a really hard time with the amp envelope.

Do you mean playback just the single sound playing back or an entire track with other sounds. If the latter, have you checked if the track or entire sequence is clipping?

I think the issue is the resolution of fast envelopes is lower when playing a sequence on the hardware, causing a zippered or bit crushed sound. You can get that zippering with short decays (less than say 55) in software too. But when you adjust short envelopes for no zippering while hitting pads on the LIVE II, then zippering can become audible when playing those pads in a pattern. Its both short slopes and playing in a pattern in hardware.

Settings > Program Defaults > Default Program Filter > None ? if its set to sp, 60 or 3000 you'll hear the noise effect of those filters on your kits.

I've never changed that setting from None.