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By EnochLight Thu Jul 21, 2022 8:09 pm
JeanLive wrote:I have a 8 step wave sequence which I want to use in a keygroup 'cyc' & 'rnd'... but I can only have 4 samples per keygroup - is there a work around for this?

Thanks in advance


MPC-Tutor wrote:No, 4 is the maximum


But... :hmmm:

https://www.mpc-tutor.com/creating-8-la ... kai-force/
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By MPC-Tutor Thu Jul 21, 2022 10:38 pm
He's asking specifically for a 'cycle' or 'random' configuration, while the article I wrote is about a 'velocity' configuration. You can increase available velocity layers by using multiple keygroups per note range ( for example, keygroup one covers note C1, velocity 0 to 60, keygroup 2 covers note C1, velocities 61 to 127 = 8 layers 0-127).

But if you set the two keygroups to 'cycle', then the velocity ranges are ignored and the keygroups just all play together simultaneously (i.e. the MPC will simultaneously play one layer from keygroup 1 and one layer from keygroup 2).

EnochLight wrote:
JeanLive wrote:I have a 8 step wave sequence which I want to use in a keygroup 'cyc' & 'rnd'... but I can only have 4 samples per keygroup - is there a work around for this?

Thanks in advance


MPC-Tutor wrote:No, 4 is the maximum


But... :hmmm:

https://www.mpc-tutor.com/creating-8-la ... kai-force/
By JeanLive Fri Jul 22, 2022 10:24 am
Thanks for the replies & ideas, I have come up with a couple of other options.
The first of which is to split the midi seq across 2 channels and therefore use 2 keygroups with 4 samples and the other is to have one sample for note on & one for note off, i.e. hold the the first note/sample (set amp decay to get the right note length) then trigger the next note/sample on note off - of course, the same 2 samples always follow each other but I am getting the 8 samples in one keygroup.