MPC 3 - no time signature option...?

Beta versions are for ironing out bugs, well I presumed?

No time signatures is an absolute JOKE.

6/8 (slow ballads) as we call it, pretty much an absolute necessity for popular music let alone the more advanced signatures.

MPCX going on ebay.

MPC 3 is unusable for many poeple, like me, without proper time signatures options.

Akaï should communicate clearly about that

Rialas wrote:No time signatures is an absolute JOKE.

6/8 (slow ballads) as we call it, pretty much an absolute necessity for popular music let alone the more advanced signatures.

If you need 6/8 for a slow ballad, the joke is on you. Activate the TRIPLET option and do your slow ballad. Even the Force supports that, it will give you a 12-steps-per-bar step sequencer with 1/8 triplet TC, or 24 steps per bar for 1/16T.

MPCX going on ebay.

Yeah right.

HouseWithoutMouse wrote:

Rialas wrote:No time signatures is an absolute JOKE.

6/8 (slow ballads) as we call it, pretty much an absolute necessity for popular music let alone the more advanced signatures.

If you need 6/8 for a slow ballad, the joke is on you. Activate the TRIPLET option and do your slow ballad. Even the Force supports that, it will give you a 12-steps-per-bar step sequencer with 1/8 triplet TC, or 24 steps per bar for 1/16T.

MPCX going on ebay.

Yeah right.

Ok, that would work. Can you help me with the 7/8 5/8 an 9/4 ie the Greek stuff we play. I thought this was an advanced machine?

Rialas wrote:that would work. Can you help me with the 7/8 5/8 an 9/4 ie the Greek stuff we play. I thought this was an advanced machine?

the machine is advanced its your math skills that arent. its not 9/4 its 9/16ths.. you cant fit 9 into 4 or 8... cant you read a ruler?

Ultros wrote:

Rialas wrote:that would work. Can you help me with the 7/8 5/8 an 9/4 ie the Greek stuff we play. I thought this was an advanced machine?

the machine is advanced its your math skills that arent. its not 9/4 its 9/16ths.. you cant fit 9 into 4 or 8... cant you read a ruler?

This is something I usually say to my cat but, Ooooh big stretch!

5 doesn't go into 4, but there's 5/4 time. I don't think Notation works like an imperial ruler.

you're right i'm having a glitch. assuming all timing is to the power of 2.

Ultros wrote:

Rialas wrote:that would work. Can you help me with the 7/8 5/8 an 9/4 ie the Greek stuff we play. I thought this was an advanced machine?

the machine is advanced its your math skills that arent. its not 9/4 its 9/16ths.. you cant fit 9 into 4 or 8... cant you read a ruler?

My goodness me, I’ve been playing 9/4 patterns for 40 years. It’s a Greek traditional pattern. Google it and educate yourself before putting others down.

The inch ruler logic and 9/16ths is complete made-up rubbish. It's incredible what sort of nonsense people claim on the internet. Why study and learn when you can simply make stuff up?!

On the Force you can kind of do odd meters with the scene/clip launch matrix, if you trim your clips to the desired length, for example 7*4*2 beats for 2 measures of 7/4, and then set Launch Quantize to 1/4. The only problem is, you'll have to press the scene launch button very precisely on time, during the last beat before the next scene should start.

meh

Yeah i'm definitely trippin. sorry guys. been a weird day, locked myself into a strange train of thought. i gotta lay off the ooo eeee for a bit its turning my brains to mush.

Ultros wrote:Yeah i'm definitely trippin. sorry guys. been a weird day, locked myself into a strange train of thought. i gotta lay off the ooo eeee for a bit its turning my brains to mush.

No worries, the joys of the internet.
Apologies too.

When Ultros is talking about linux and custom firmware he can stick the landing...

Once he's off ranting about imperial measurement systems and rulers... well... let's just say, get the ten foot pole.

So I tried getting some clarity on Time Signatures in 3 directly from Akai support. Needless to say the reply doesn't clear anything up at all. In fact the lack of transparency makes me more convinced that things are not headed in the direction of time signatures returning to MPC 3 any time soon.

Hi Michael,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

While we look forward to providing full support for MPC 3 upon its official public release, however currently, support is limited due to the OS' Beta status.

However, your input is highly valued, and our public beta testers are crucial to the success of this platform!

If you have any general feedback about MPC 3 Beta, please send it to the Akai Professional team directly using this link:

Akai Professional MPC 3 Public Beta - General Feedback Form https://forms.office.com/r/Dc08HSutAV

If you discover any issues with the update, please use the link below to send this information to the Akai Professional team directly:

Akai Professional MPC 3 Public Beta - Issue Reporting https://forms.office.com/r/zfb7GymJGp

General workflow questions should be answered in the video featured at the start of this article.