Discuss the various methods you use in music production, from compressor settings to equipment type.
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By soyo Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:55 pm
No Joke!

Tired of hitting your pads?

Just found out this awesome thing! I found out that you can make the mpc trigger a sound when you make a sound with your mouth. You can make some crazyass rhythm's this way. As for example if you go "Brrrrr" in the microphone, the sample goes brrrr. You can actually record this in to a sequence. Nice for drum rolls etc.

Here's what you do.

1. Take a microphone
2. Plug it in to your mixer or preamp to get the signal strength up.
3. Take a cable from the preamp and plug it in to the foot switch jack 1 or 2 in your mpc.
4. Press "mode" and "Pad 10" and go to "other" then select so that foot-switch 1 is to react on for example pad 13 where you have your sample that you want to trigger with your voice.

Press REC and voila!
Tell me how it works for you people!

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By kingquota Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:59 pm
what the heck,

so you can only trigger one sample this way?

that be sick for kicks/snares. i'd just beat box'em in
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By laban Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:06 pm
HAHA :lol:

Shyt is stupid but funny! :lol: Its truly working :shock:

By kingquota Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:21 pm
yeah man
thats sick
you REALLY gotta amp it up

thats really funny

try doing a drumroll with your tongue, now thats note repeat

By kingquota Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:44 pm
see with limitations people find way to max hardware out. we dont even need os2, we just need soe creativity...

























well, i lied, i could really use zoning, thats all
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By M.ic P.ro C.rusher Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:26 pm
soyo wrote:3. Take a cable from the preamp and plug it in to the foot switch jack 1 or 2 in your mpc.


What kind of cable? 1/4"? From where on my pre-amp? Just off the stereo outs?

Think this would work in my MIDI controller keyboard's footswitch socket?
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By psitech Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:54 pm
cool find!!!!!

i know you can trigger a sound with a pedal, but is it possible to at the same time use a mic to trigger another sound?

pedal for kick and a mic for snare
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By soyo Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:42 pm
psitech wrote:cool find!!!!!

i know you can trigger a sound with a pedal, but is it possible to at the same time use a mic to trigger another sound?

pedal for kick and a mic for snare


jag tror fan det asså, eller jag menade, yeah i think so man. You have got 2 foot ins so that should not be a problem
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By soyo Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:48 pm
M.ic P.ro C.rusher wrote:
soyo wrote:3. Take a cable from the preamp and plug it in to the foot switch jack 1 or 2 in your mpc.


What kind of cable? 1/4"? From where on my pre-amp? Just off the stereo outs?

Think this would work in my MIDI controller keyboard's footswitch socket?


The main thing is that you have to make the signal strong from your microphone..
But yeah, you only need one cable. So from the L out is good. Or Right if you prefer that.

By firemongers Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:26 am
Sounds great

Could you hook up a microphone directly into the MPC footswitch plug to make this work (via an xlr to jack cable)?

Or would the signal be too low?

By kingquota Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:40 am
wayyyyyyyy too low based on what i tried. i had my pre-amp almost full, and the levels at a line output.