Can Anyone Give Me Advice on the Problem?

Hey Guys- I'm new here but I'm sure I'll be asking more questions.

I have an MPC ONE with a Live 3 on the way.

I'm trying to do something kinda unusual, and wondering if anyone here who is more MPC experience can help or advise me on it.


I have some drums-only tracks that were created in Suno Studio. From Suno Studio, I can export the WAV file of the whole drum track and export the MIDI file of the whole drum track.

Suno Studio does not split drum tracks into individual stems like Snare, Kick, Ride, hats, etc.

So I am stuck with the whole file, either as audio or a midi pattern.


What I am trying to do is to get the Suno drum Track into a useable format on the MPC where I can alter the beat slightly (as in moving things in grid view)

and/or mixing and FXing individual parts of the drum track like Snare, Kick, etc.

So at first I thought, I'll just export the Suno dm track to midi, then import that to the MPC, assign a dum kit and edit from there.

Well, not so easy. The MIDI file imports, but when I select a drum kit, the suno midi track does not line up to the kit parts in the MPC drum kit. I kinda expected this, but it is a royal pain trying to figure out which line of midi from SUNO goes to which part of the drumkit (kick, snare, hats, etc) becuase they arent labeled and you really can't tell.


So I'm wondering if there is a better way to do this- is it possible to bring in the Audio WAV file of the drum track from Suno, then convert it to a sample , use it on a drum track and from there EXPLODE it to individual tracks?

Does the MPC work that way? IE.. does it do basical stem splitting where it can isolate the kick, snare, hats, etc?


Any other ideas on how I could attack this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Easiest way I can think of is to to duplicate the Suno track so that each one contains only one instrument.

You could convert the drum loop to MIDI in Ableton Live instead, although the accuracy isn’t very good.

Bring the wav file into the mpc
Sample edit and chop (threshold) or manual and create a chop for each drum hit
Convert to program but the key here is to select “create events” (make sure to set correct # of bars)

You’ll now have a track with the midi notes of each drum hit where you can move around and mix each chop accordingly

So....... this all depends on how much work you want to put into it... but the more time you are willing to invest... the more flexible the result.

I'm not familiar with Sono... so I can only guess at this... but my gut tells me...

Export the Midi from Sono, as this will give you the most flexibility *in* the MPC to manipulate the timing of drums further.

You can assign the Midi to a drum kit... and through Transpose you can then basically... tap a pad to select all notes for a particular drum... and with transpose move the notes up or done *if* you want to...

You'll also be able to use SAMPLE to record in each drum type to make a new kit. You can either drop the drum hit where the note is in Midi... or record to the pad you want, and then by transposing a group of notes you could move them to the appropriate drum hit.

As others have mentioned... Ableton (or similar DAWs) could help greatly here, as you could create some mappings to change the position of individual drum hits in the DAW... and once you've gotten a mapping together for Sonos, should work for all/most/many of your drum patterns.

As I said though... I'm not familiar with the plugin you're using... so I'm taking a complete guess.

Masi wrote:Easiest way I can think of is to to duplicate the Suno track so that each one contains only one instrument.

Yes that would be the best option, but you can't do that with Suno. It spits everything out into one track, and trying to get it to cut it up probably not possible, although maybe I'll try prompting that.

if suno let you split out the drum track to stems, that would be all I need, but nooo

Elijah wrote:You could convert the drum loop to MIDI in Ableton Live instead, although the accuracy isn’t very good.

I am able to export the Suno drum track (with all the drum parts) to a midi file, but the issue is that there is no standard for drum midi files, so depending on your drum kit used, the parts land in random midi channels and you don't know which part is which, so its a long slog to move it all around and try to put it in the right place.

J.O.BEATS wrote:Bring the wav file into the mpc
Sample edit and chop (threshold) or manual and create a chop for each drum hit
Convert to program but the key here is to select “create events” (make sure to set correct # of bars)

You’ll now have a track with the midi notes of each drum hit where you can move around and mix each chop accordingly

Its really the midi PATTERN that I want, not so much the sounds. will this method work for that?

I'm looking to import the full suno drum track into mpc as Midi, so i can move some parts/hits around and tweak it to my liking.

NearTao wrote:So....... this all depends on how much work you want to put into it... but the more time you are willing to invest... the more flexible the result.

I'm not familiar with Sono... so I can only guess at this... but my gut tells me...

Export the Midi from Sono, as this will give you the most flexibility *in* the MPC to manipulate the timing of drums further.

You can assign the Midi to a drum kit... and through Transpose you can then basically... tap a pad to select all notes for a particular drum... and with transpose move the notes up or done *if* you want to...

You'll also be able to use SAMPLE to record in each drum type to make a new kit. You can either drop the drum hit where the note is in Midi... or record to the pad you want, and then by transposing a group of notes you could move them to the appropriate drum hit.

As others have mentioned... Ableton (or similar DAWs) could help greatly here, as you could create some mappings to change the position of individual drum hits in the DAW... and once you've gotten a mapping together for Sonos, should work for all/most/many of your drum patterns.

As I said though... I'm not familiar with the plugin you're using... so I'm taking a complete guess.

This sounds promising, but i am not that experinced in mpc, so i dont know exactly what you are saying after exporting the midi from Suno.

I was able to import the suno midi file, but when I select a kit the midi lines in grid view are on random channels and don't line up with the right drum, hat, snare, etc.

is there an easy way to just tap a midi channel in grid view and set a sample (ex hi hat) to that channel?

while we are on the topic of the grid view, man it is hard to read what the drum kit parts are on the left hand column. I can zoom in a little but its still so TINY on that touchscreen.

is there a way to make the notations on the midi channel big enough to actually read without glasses?

shrimp wrote:

J.O.BEATS wrote:Bring the wav file into the mpc
Sample edit and chop (threshold) or manual and create a chop for each drum hit
Convert to program but the key here is to select “create events” (make sure to set correct # of bars)

You’ll now have a track with the midi notes of each drum hit where you can move around and mix each chop accordingly

Its really the midi PATTERN that I want, not so much the sounds. will this method work for that?

I'm looking to import the full suno drum track into mpc as Midi, so i can move some parts/hits around and tweak it to my liking.

Yes. This will give you the midi notes for the pattern.

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