Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By hoodsheep Productions Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:33 pm
Watup Folks...This is my first post so bear with me...I just started working with the 2000xl and had a question with MIDI assignements and making programs.... I have a Yamaha keyboard hooked up via MIDI in and out to the MPC....I also have 2 sound modules (EMU Planet Phatt and a Peavy Spectrum) daisey chained from the MPC's second MIDI out port...

Lets say I have created a 4 bar sequence....I have the kick on track one (S:MIDI-10b-device10)...the snare on track 2 (S:MIDI-11b-device11)....the hi-hat on track 3 (S:MIDI-12b-device12) and so one for a total of five tracks...I am using the MPC to trigger the Planet phat module which I have set up to correspond with the proper midi channels (i.e. Ch10 - Kicks, CH11 - Snare, CH12 - Hi Hat, etc..)...When i tap the pads on the MPC for the respective channel I hear nothing but the respective sound (64 kicks or 64 snares, etc)...

I was wondering how could I put both the snare, hi hat, and kick drum in the same Bank?...to actually hear the respective sound, I have to actually switch the track to what sound i want to hear or play...im sure there is an easier way...On the planet phatt it has GM beat kits and what not, but I have shaped and molded my own kicks, snares, and hats and saved them to individual presets...I want to use those presets on individual MIDI channels that way i can control the paramaters of that individual sound...How would I create a new program where i could per se, have the Kick on A1, Snare on A2, hi-hat on A3, and so on...any insight or suggestions would be appreciated

By nanoloop Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:21 am
assign the sounds to note number in the module then switch the first few pad to the corresponding midi note on the mpc. if you set your module to omni you should be able to play all the assigned sounds from the one midi track. and say have programed a drum loop. you can spread the sounds across multiple seq/track's but still use the same midi channel.