Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
By cutbeat Wed Feb 05, 2003 9:00 am
for earthmorphosis and all mpc4k users!

sorry it's been a while i've been busy!we talked about creating mpc groove templates for p.tools or logic! this is a simple thing and you can do it yourself!on the mpc create a seq and on trk 1 play a sixteenth hi-hat pattern and copy that trk 21 times,one for each swing quantize of the mpc!now proceed to quantize each trk with the swing quantizes!e.g. trk 1, 50% swing,trk 2, 51% swing,trk 3, 52% swing etc,till you get to 70% swing,this should take up 21 traks!save that seq to a folder on the mpc and then drag it on your mac desktop via aksy. now import that as a midi file to p.tools or logic!each of those traks now has the swing info from the mpc!in logic all you have to do in your autoload is bring up the midi file as a new song and drag the midi info on the autoload page! now highlight trk one and name it mpc 50% and go to groove templates and select new groove template!thats it!now this gets added to your quantize parameters on your left!proceed to do the same for each swing quantize and it will keep adding to the list! now save your autoload and when you boot up the program you have your mpc swing templates ready to go! not sure how all this is done on p.tools if your still using p.tools! but i would imagine it shouldn't be to complicated! it works well and saves alot of time guessing!

hope this helps you earthmorphosis and all the mpc4k users who also use a pc to program keys!

when the beat is fat and it swings it's an mpc.

cutbeat

By earthmorphosis Wed Feb 05, 2003 9:20 pm
Thanks a lot Cutbeat! I will try it out this weekend. I am planning to get Logic in a couple months...I know its better for MIDI than Pro Tools.

By the way, I love Sydney. I was there for New Years 2000 trippin my nuts off. I stayed in Oz for 3 months and traveled up the coast. I miss it! I'll trade citizenship with you bro! It's cold as f*ck here in NYC. :(

By cutbeat Fri Feb 07, 2003 4:50 am
no problems earthmorphosis, if you get stuck anywhere just post and i'll get back to you!

australia is a great place to live but in a music sense it's limiting because of the size of the market! i love rnb/hip hop and good pop but the industry is to small to support more than one or two artists per label! then there is the quality of artist to consider! so most of the time i'm doing pop to scrape by a living! i think your in the right place earth! come to australia for a holiday and go nuts it's a great place but the u.s. is the place for music!

By kid christou Fri Oct 17, 2003 10:12 am
does anybody know how you create mpc groove templates on the mpc 2000 and then export them into logic?

it sounds so easy on the mpc4k, but won't have mine for another 6 months.

any step by step instructions would be most appreciated?
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By Blue Haze Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:07 pm
Another Great tips thru the board. To use with your DAW. :idea:

By Paul Oakenfold Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:38 pm
Hey cool tip. I've been wondering about this for a while - running aksys on PC and was wondering how to import akai arrangements into cubase.

Can anyone offer any advice? I've tried almost everything but can't get any action out of it.

I've got as far as pulling the folder/file over to the PC, then trying to import the .ALL file as midi. Cubase seems to do something, and doesn't report any errors, but nothing appears.

Can anyone help?

By renegadebliss Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:10 pm
kid christou wrote:does anybody know how you create mpc groove templates on the mpc 2000 and then export them into logic?

it sounds so easy on the mpc4k, but won't have mine for another 6 months.

any step by step instructions would be most appreciated?



Do the exact same set of steps as he listed, other then instead of using
Ak.Sys to get it to your computer, you would need to use a zip or floppy
disk to get it to your computer. Other then that, you can still
create a 21 track sequence with all of the Swing settings as described above.

By fasterbeats Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:11 am
Paul Oakenfold wrote:Hey cool tip. I've been wondering about this for a while - running aksys on PC and was wondering how to import akai arrangements into cubase.

Can anyone offer any advice? I've tried almost everything but can't get any action out of it.

I've got as far as pulling the folder/file over to the PC, then trying to import the .ALL file as midi. Cubase seems to do something, and doesn't report any errors, but nothing appears.

Can anyone help?



try importing just 1 sequence as this is a midi file that cubase will import.
Youll have to set up your instuments on each track after you import it or get your program numbers and midi routing to the mpc right :wink:
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By Mohammed Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:13 pm
Now i would like the possibility to import groove-templates into the MPC,
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By Freedom Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:00 pm
You can how do you think tuttor made his beats groove like that in the loops....

All a midi groove template is ... Is a midi file with swing and delay settings telling it where to hit the qauntization...
So
example...
Go into protools open up a james brown drum loop
Tempo map it by setting up the tempo on the 1234 count until youve got about 4 bars mapped out...
U do this by Identifying the beat. Command I in mac...So I dentify BAr1 step 1 etc. etc..
Then when you are done export the file as a midi file...
With tempo settings...
So what you did was take the groove of james brown and put his timing into the midi file...
Now you load that midi file up into the akai mpc....
Put the overdub on and you should hear the metronome following the timing you indetified in pro tools...
Now lay down a drum and youve got the soul and groove of james brown with differnet drums...

This is the secret for big name studios programming tracks they will always lay a groove template over a stale beat to open things up..

Aight peace