Discuss the various methods you use in music production, from compressor settings to equipment type.
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By thamessage Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:36 pm
is there a way to program a beat "off the grid" (no metronome) and then adjust tempo to fit the performance you just played?

meaning, not playing to a click and then telling the mpc ok what i just played is 2 bars now i need to adjust the sequence tempo so that those 2 bars i just played fit into the sequence tempo?
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By metafor Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:15 pm
meaning no quantize, and no metronome click. if so then just turn them off, and then from there adjust the length of the sequence, and bpm ,as its playin.
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By thamessage Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:18 pm
okay that makes sense easier than i thought..;

By K10 Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:28 pm
I don't think you can do that with MIDI (ie one shot drum hits triggered by the pads) as it would require a midi timestretch feature like that found in Cubase. If you're talking about recording audio loops then just follow what metafor says.

By DrunkenMonkey Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:47 pm
You could try resampling what you played, then load it as a wav and change the bpm to make it fit.
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By thamessage Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:21 pm
oh yes i was referring to midi ie one shot drum hits not audio sampling.. that sucks you can't do that.. add to the 2.1 wishlist. wouldn't be that hard for akai to program i think.
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By kja Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:45 am
dude i do it all the time. all you got to do is like make the sequence like 200 bars or watever and clip the ones you dont use,i.e. blank ones. hope this helps fam.