Recording two sounds on one track (ie. Kick and Snare)

Thanks all! I just got back in town and was impressed to see the suggestions from headz that know the MPC better than I...... Thanks again!

Thanks all! I just got back in town and was impressed to see the suggestions from headz that know the MPC better than I...... Thanks again!

cooocooo1 wrote:I actually don't work this way but let me help anyone who doesn't understand why someone would work like this.
You sit down, turn the power on, load up some programs, hit record and start bangin' out some two handed drum patterns:
BOOM BAP BA BOOM BOOM BAP, hey that kick/snare pattern sounds nice, tick tick tick tick ti ti ti tick tick, cool, I'm feelin' that hi hat, I think that vocal sample on pad 10 and 11 will sound cool right ...............here! Now to bring in those bass samples on pads 13, 14, 15 and 16, ...........sounds good! Some percussion here, some more elements there, done. Don't look now but I damn near got a whole track done without stoppin' to switch tracks. WHY? Cuz you can put everything where it's supposed to be later when you're not feelin quite so creative.
This of course is an exageration of what soulz was trying to do but I think it gets the point across. Sorry if it came off a little agressive, that was not my intension.

You hit the nail on the head for me cause I put everything on one track just to get the feeling and complexity outta my system cause I can bang out junk with both hands. Afterwards, just like you said, I seperate tracks when I'm chillin in crusie control.

cooocooo1 wrote:I think this mainly applies to drum tracks.

exactly.
i pretty much always use this method. i'd rather actually bang out my drum pattern than construct it track by track, sound by sound. heh, it reminds me of when i was in school & the teachers would yell "STOP BANGING ON THE DESKS!"

yeah, it's just different ways of working. Cause you don't necessarily want to bang out the kick pattern, let it loop, switch track, okay now hi-hat, etc...being a drummer I'll have one finger doing the kick and snare, same time another finger doing the hi hat...sometimes 5 or six sounds at once...(ever see Future Man w/Bela Fleck?...kind of like that). Now to keep the vibe going and not have to copy and erase and yadda, I just leave the original track. Then switch to track 2, and just play the kick pattern along with original, same for the other sounds on other tracks. Sometimes it takes a second to be able to memorize how a complicated high-hat pattern goes, but when you do this, you're really training yourself as a drummer would. You also don't have to stop the machine to copy and erase. When you're done, just turn the first track off...there ya go.

If I am not mistaking... through the 8 out, you can assign sounds to the individual outputs by pad... therefore, even though you create a single midi track, you still have the ability to individually process the output signal of each channel.

right but for real editing you want each sound on it's own track. Like say you want to take out the hi-hat in sequence two, if it's all on one track, that's much more annoying than if you can just turn the track off...but still it's fun doing it all on one track, hence my suggestion.

descartes wrote:yeah... but you dont have to stop to switch tracks... you can change the track you are recording on without pressing stop. putting everything where its supposed to be is one thing, but that doesnt mean you should record an entire single track full of data when you dont gots to... sounds like making more work for yourself latter.

You have to put in work/creativity to get music to good quality anyway, what's the rush?

HipHop is based on whatever you want it be, minimal sounds or hard horn hits. It's up to your style really..

But please don't stop the music or stop to switch tracks, keep the feel going and seperate sounds to tracks later.