can anyone help?

got my 1000 and microkorg all linked up and going into the back of my mixer. no problems here.
when i play the synth it is a normal volume, however, when i try to put some drum sounds down all of the mpc sounds are really quiet. does anyone know why this might be?
another thing, once i've put a synth line down on a sequence how do i use a different synth sound on another track? when i select a new track and a new sound this automatically changes the sound of what i have just recorded to the type of sound i've just selected, if ya get me? does anyone know how to stop this from happening?
any advice would be cool. peace.

Your going to hear this over and over again till u do it!!

Read the manual!

If you know anything about MIDI you will know that its about channels, wnad basically you have to set each sound to its own MIDI CHANNEL. there are 32 all together on a mpc, 1A-16A and 1B-16B

So lets apply some common sense to the situation

On the MPC you have a MIDI Device TracK set to 1A on the KORG it will be 1A with the sound u want.

Then on the MPC again if u want another sound we choose 2A then on the KORG...get it? 2A as well!! you can do this for as many up to 32 depending if your KORG goes up to 32 channels.

This simple midi explaination works FOR ALL SYNTHS!

I suggest reading what MIDI IS and how it works to get a better understanding of it potential, cause it can aid in a whole heap of other ways as well.

i do try to read the manual mate and i hear what you're saying. but sometimes it just doesn't make sense like it does like when someone on hear, such as yourself, gives an explanation in laymans terms. your explanation you've just given has helped my understanding of the problem no ends in just 2 mins..
any idea about the differences in volume between the mickorg and the mpc drum sounds?
cheers.

Manual Dont make sense? I'm not even going to say nuttin except ..I lent my one to a mate considering buying one and he said after smoking some u know what it started to make sense to him... I'm not one for such methods but maybe you could try this too.

With regards to the volume, that can be so many things so I would not know how to answer that question. but I will give u some ideas ...

If your using a mixer, mabye your gains aint right and are to low,
or you sample your drums to low,
the volume on the MPC outs are too low
the volumes on the korg are to high
remember each midi track has its own volume control 1-127 you can control this in the MPC or the KORG.

Penfold wrote:Manual Dont make sense? I'm not even going to say nuttin except ..I lent my one to a mate considering buying one and he said after smoking some u know what it started to make sense to him... I'm not one for such methods but maybe you could try this too.

With regards to the volume, that can be so many things so I would not know how to answer that question. but I will give u some ideas ...

If your using a mixer, mabye your gains aint right and are to low,
or you sample your drums to low,
the volume on the MPC outs are too low
the volumes on the korg are to high
remember each midi track has its own volume control 1-127 you can control this in the MPC or the KORG.

it's probably that method that is making it harder to read! saying it don't make sense is prob not what i was looking to say, what i mean is that sometimes coming on here gives you that element of interactivity that helps me understand. like i just said before, your reply to this post has just helped me understand a prob i've been fretting about all weekend. it's true what your saying tho, i've got to read up more generally on midi i'll admit.
as for the volume problem i think my gains are set up ok, it could be the mpc outs being too low. i might try another mixer, just to make sure it's not just that the one i'm using at the mo is broke (it's fair old).
why is it when i turn my korg off, anything i have recorded onto sequence on the mpc gets wiped? i thought it would be recorded onto the mpc if u get what i'm saying? i'm sure the answer to this is going to be some kind of midi issue or something that i should find in the manual, but if u could point me in the right direction that would be sound..

Admiral Dirtbag wrote:"it's probably that method that is making it harder to read! saying it don't make sense is prob not what i was looking to say, what i mean is that sometimes coming on here gives you that element of interactivity that helps me understand"..... "but if u could point me in the right direction that would be sound.."

Come on now lets be honest now bruv, its lazyness! Everyone hates reading the manual its part of our culture and psyche to just get straight in, and when problems occur we ask someone straight away who might know. Thats just how we are.

Anyway to point you in the right direction...on the Korg you want to save your setup, i beleive they are called PRESETS or PROGRAMS.
I use a Proteus 2000 and I save them as erm.. cant remember the name but basically it remembers all the outputs midi settings everything, but what its not good for is saving a Program for each song cause you might make 1000 tracks but can only save 100 Presets.

The way around this is making default presets that you can adjust over time. secondly what most people do not do is LABEL there tracks on the MPC, the KORG will never remember the sounds u have chosen but the mpc will remember the channels, so everytime u turn the korg on u just turn the bank number, or instrument not the channel cause the mpc is already telling the korg but the korg needs to know the bank area.

so ...label the tracks u use for midi with the names of the korg instruments. that way you will not get lost!

cheers blood, i'll take a look at it. appreciate it.

also one good way to remember the voice is to save the voice as a preset in the korg and at the start of the sequence in the mpc record the corresponding program change for the preset and do this for all your midi tracks and you wont have to touch anything, just press play! try this you guys and let me know how it goes, peace.

i dont think the microkorg is multitimbral. you would need a multitimbral board to play different voices on different tracks. yeah barefoot, i make a seq that only has the program and control changes that the song needs to start with...then i play that sequence first to cue up everything and i dont send program changes everytime it loops. some of my equipment likes to stutter when they change programs - even if theyre just returning to the same program.