Makin a sound stop when another comes in.

How do u do this?

i got a sample, and i want that sample to stop playing when the other one comes in

pez

on the XL: you go to the program screen, select the DRUM with the sound you need. press the sound, go to PARAMS and go to the field that says "Voice Overlap" press OPEN WINDOW and there you can select the sounds (2sounds) you want to mute by pressing the pad you are on.

thx alot

another question

aint it another way u can do this? in the step edit? if u want more then 2 sounds to stop playin?

you can always just cut your samples properly

yes, u can do this in step edit: first you need to put the "Voice Overlap" to NOTE OFF. then you play the pads and record. you stop and go into step edit and change the duration of the pads you play so that they dont overlap. (a calcutator can come in handy)

PS a nice thing to do with (for instance) a piano or flute is to make the sound have a "release". in the XL u do this by going into the TRIM screen, press LOOP and set this to "on". now you go the the PARAMS of the pad u have the sound assingend to and when you turn the "decay" to (example) 15 or 20. now, when you press the pad the sound wont stop so "hard", it will fade out when you let the pad go. !this only works when you set the loop on!

multiman

thanx alot for the second tips.

but I dont realy understand the first, could u please explain a little more?

well, its simple but u need to keep your head with it
1) you have two sounds (two pads) both on NOTE OFF (or more sounds)
2) you play a bit with the pads to find a combination you like
3) you take a fresh empty track to record your nice combination
4) after the recording you listen if everything hits at the right time (you can use quantising or none, it dont make a difference)
5) if everything hits at the right time you stop the playback and go to the "step edit" screen
6) you will see the combination you played like a timeline and you dont want no empty gaps in them so you look at the first note you played (probably on 001.01.00)
7) now you go and look for the second note you played (example: 001.02.48) -> an easy way is to press "locate" and "the right event arrow" that way you jump to the next event
the duration needs to be exact (or a bit more) to make a nice flow so you calcutate the duration. in this example you need a duration of 96+48=144, meaning from 001.01.00 to 001.02.00 is 96 and from 001.02.00 is 48
9) repeat step 7 and 8 for the rest of the notes you played

hope this helped... have fun with it!

PS: 1 BAR= 384 ; 1/2 BAR= 192 ; 1/4 BAR= 96 ; 1/8 BAR= 48 ; ...
you see why a calculator can come in handy

It is SUCH a pain that they didn't implement 'mute groups' on the 2000xl..
On other Akai samples you'd have 32 mute groups - each sample assigned to one mute group would cut every other sample in that group off. I SO miss that on the XL.

multiman thx!

I just make beats, I aint no mathematichan :-p

c.toon wrote:you can always just cut your samples properly

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