By
trupro
Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:03 pm
Smoove got it right. You also had a good answr within your original question. If everything don;t sound good the way it is, try keeping kick/snare/hat & bass center, and various levels of stereo wideness on synths and keyboards. Samples should be panned the way they came from the record, which is 100 wide on both sides for a true stereo field, or else you may have phasing occur. Sometimes, you can create space if the sample sounds good panned dead center on L & R, as long as it don;t phaze out. Also, smoove touched on the writing having alot to do with the pocket. Like, the beat may not require a complex bassline, but you put one in, and then it's od'ing. That being said, a huge cause for the clutter is also poor tuning. COuld be one, or many, instruments or samples, and they could be a little or alot off. But if so, you gonna get a hank-shocklee-public-enemy-on-crack-supermess that needs some cleaning up. Do what he say. Start wit dat panning, and truncation. Also, chops in a succession on the same outputs should cut eachother off. Pad1 plays, then you het pad 2, and you want it to cut the previous, and so-on down the line. To do that, go to parameters, hit a pad, open window on the mono/poly/note off field, and move th cursor down to one of the two slots. Hit the pad before it, and it appears as one of two that can be cut off with the pad you are editing. DOn;t forget to move to the top feild again before hitting another pad to make it a cuttof, or you change the one it's having this effect on, rather than the one that executes it. I'm rambling. Check the manual if you use the MPC. This is the ish tho', and you can skip being anal about the end points of truncation, long as you know what order you wanna paly them out and cut them off in.
