How many track will be preferable when...

I am going to record the beat from the MPC 1000 to my pc in multitracks? I have 4 inputs on my (future) soundcard, which is a M-Audio Delta 44. And as well known, the MPC1000 has 4 assignable outs. I thought I might transfer the beat in four tracks, and have the kick on track one, snare on two, hat on three, and the rest of the samples on track four. But is this to few tracks? How many tracks would you recommend, and what to be on which track?

Thank you


-Orjan.

you wont be able to do what you suggested as the outputs are 2 stereo pairs. so you can only route the each pad to either the main outs, outs 1&2 or outs 3&4

Ahum,
What about if you hard pan your kick to the left , your snare to the right , then your hat to output 1/2 hard left and sounds hard right?
You get four mono tracks.
It aint stereo ,but for drums it ain't that big of a problem , you can still convert it to stereo later on if you need panning.
Just my way of working tho.
Greetz...

Also you can use the main outputs for two more tracks so you have 6 in total. But really you can have as many tracks as you want if you sync your MPC up to the multitrack and record multiple passes with different output assignments/track mutes. I've recorded 16 tracks into ProTools through my M-Box which only has 2 inputs.

morgan wrote:Also you can use the main outputs for two more tracks so you have 6 in total. But really you can have as many tracks as you want if you sync your MPC up to the multitrack and record multiple passes with different output assignments/track mutes. I've recorded 16 tracks into ProTools through my M-Box which only has 2 inputs.

There it is.

Okey thanks to you all, but what will be the preferred amount of tracks then, and what to put on which track?

orjanbs wrote:Okey thanks to you all, but what will be the preferred amount of tracks then, and what to put on which track?

I see that your english is a bit out...so lets just say this....

Use a track for each sound you use, KICK, SNR, etc. samples with very differnet freq's seperate tracks for them also.

I use a track for each sound too, but you could get the levels of your hihats at the appropriate level inside the mpc and record them on one track , cause like penfold said , they work in the same frequency.
Greetz...

Fasttracker wrote:I use a track for each sound too, but you could get the levels of your hihats at the appropriate level inside the mpc and record them on one track , cause like penfold said , they work in the same frequency.
Greetz...

Someone needs to post a tutorial for this topic. Multitracking.........everybody seems to have this problem

Jenre wrote:you wont be able to do what you suggested as the outputs are 2 stereo pairs. so you can only route the each pad to either the main outs, outs 1&2 or outs 3&4

i'm no way trying to start any e-beef but if i read this correctly you thought you can only use 2 stereo outs/main outs and not be able to break that up into 6 individule outs? if that's the case my question to you is did you read the manual?

just curious

orjanbs wrote:Okey thanks to you all, but what will be the preferred amount of tracks then, and what to put on which track?

This question doesn't have a right/wrong answer. It is totally up to you and how you want to work once you have it tracked out. some ppl like to put there kicks and snares on one track and the hats on another. some ppl like to separate everything (lik me) to give you the freedom to mix every sound. where you also have some ppl that put all of their drums on one track and samples on another.

that is totally up to you. try tracking different ways and see which works best for you. it's all a matter of comfort and ease for you