KaoticShock wrote:SuperKonquer wrote:Oh man i can only imagine the incredible instruments expansions Tutor is going to create with 8 layers and disk streaming. I can foresee Kontakt quality sound expansions for real.
Unfortunately, the MPC is not kontakt, and it is also not a workstation (Fantom, Motif, Triton/Kronos/Nautilus). Maybe 8 layer keygroups are useful for some, but I have found that the MPC hardware is not optimized for these type of sounds, and all it does it use up the very little and highly valuable sample memory. It is better to just sample directly from a VST, synth or plugin instead of using keygroups. I have a lot of the aforementioned expansions, but I would rather sample a trumpet from my MC-101 than use the "MPC Orchestra" to get a more realistic sound. My friends said the expansions sound cheezy and lame compared to the same beat with hardware sounds or VSTs.
You don't really really understand the implications of the added functionality. You can have the greatest sound in the world or a crappy one, its a sample player, that has never changed. What makes amazing thing possible now is not only can you have 8 layers, but every layer can actually be a longer audio file, and that audio file can be sliced to only play a section of that audio file on a press.
You can round Robin it or random play it. So essentially you can do all sort of things to spice up a sound. Different harmonics, time shifting, detuning pitch, articulations and that's just the start. Imagine putting a chord progression on layer one, guitar articulations on layer 2 and hi hat on layer 3 and having combinations of that round robining and random playing, plus using velocity layer triggers etc etc etc.
For clarity I'm talking about long er audio files that have different chord and different articulations spread out over the wave and then sliced. There can hardly be a reason that one couldn't create amazing eargasiming instruments with this, now that it can be handled by disk streaming.
You are right about the current way the MPC handles keygroups. I don't really find them that useful either due to the high memory impact, but disk streaming a keygroup changes a lot. This shouldn't eat a massive chunk of memory. It opens up a vast amount of possibilities sound creation wise and especially performance wise.
