By chez2000xl
Sat Sep 13, 2003 6:36 am
Yo Graff, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt since from what I have been reading I'm guessing that you have not have your MPC for a while. First of all you asked how many beats can you make on your MPC. The answer is as many as you want!!!!!!!!!. Me personally have so many I lost count. All you have to do is start from scratch every time. For example this is what I do. Instead of loading every beat you have before you make a new one (I don't know why would you do that anyways) I just load up my Kick, Snare, Hats, Bass or take drum loops off songs that I like and chop up the individuals sounds to play them my way this does 2 things 1) allows you to do your own original thing for your beat and 2) It saves memory because when you have long sounds loaded the longer the sound the more memory it takes. So whenever you can avoid having a long sound that can be chopped loaded chop it up. Now once you got your basic drum sounds in start sampling for your elements. Now on the elements part of the house if you can use the same concept as with the drums do it!!!!!. For example of you got a piano loop that plays with gaps in the middle of the sounds chop them up to get rid of those little gaps with no sound in it and then take every individual sound and assign it to a bad so if the piano loop consisted of 4 sections spread them out on pads 1,2,3,4. That way when you play them in that order it will keep the loop intact while at the same time saving you more time to sample more if needed for this particular beat. The other beautiful part about this is that it also allows you to be more creative with your beat because now you can take this piano loop and play it on your own way if you want to by just playing it in a different order or playing certain ones with a different tuning and things like that. You can also have certain ones mute the other one when played a certain way. I mean the possibilities are endless!!!!!!!!. Now once you are done with your beat since you have a zip drive make sure that you name all the sounds different from the sounds you already have in your zip because for example if you have a sound in your zip named kick and you try to save a sound from your new beat that's named kick it will replace the original one on your zip and that would messed up the other beat on your zip that used that kick that got erased because now the beat would sound different. What I do to avoid that problem lets say I made my beat with the main elements of my samples being the Magnum PI theme song for the show. I name all my sound this certain way, Kick Magnum, Snare Magnum, Hat 1 Magnum, Hat 2 Magnum, Bass Magnum, Long Hat Magnum, Magnum sample 1, Magnum Sample 2, Magnum sample 3. Then I name my sequences Magnum Seq 1, Magnum Seq 2, Magnum Seq 3. And then I name my program Magnum Gram. The when I go to save I select my zip drive and go to SAVE A SEQUENCE scroll through and find my first sequence and save it then go to the next on until I save however many I had. Then I go to SAVE A PROGRAM and scroll thru and find Magnum Gram and save it when it does this it saves all my sound plus my program settings. What all this allows me to do in the future is for example when I have a MC come to my studio looking for beats instead of having to load one beat at a time I can load up as many programs and sequences as my memory on the MPC allows me to and since I chop up my sounds just right I have been able to load up quite a few at one time. The all I have to do is select the right program for the right sequence and press play. Is also good to save time because specially with rappers if they liked the first beat and want to listen to it again after you are playing beat#8 all you have to do is select the program for the beat in question and select the sequence and that's it rather than having to load the whole beat again. Well I hope that I was of any help and I also hope you keep progressing in the music production business. Peace
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