TIPS TRICKS & INSPIRATION

Upright wrote:

King_Vitamin wrote:

Also if you've never seen this cat, check him out:

Divinci
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bCzD_QY ... ch=divinci

Pretty cool stuff, looks like he was on an mcp 2000xl and a roland sp404....I wonder? What style of music is that, some sort of trance maybe goa with some hip hop flavor mixed in?

i think that was a kaoss pad, not a 404.

udenjoe wrote:After some experimenting I've come to realize I don't need my Virus. I'm thinking of getting rid of that and replacing with a midi controller and an audio interface.

how much you want for the virus?

Here's my top tip:

To use the Q-Link sliders to adjust filter on an ENTIRE Pad Bank (or even an entire program).

Lets say you have a chopped drum beat on Pad Bank A:

1. Go to Mixer Mode (Shift Pad 8 ) and press L/Out. Assign all outputs for Bank A to 8 (shift A to quickly assign all pads).
2. On the rear panel, connect a jack cable from MPC Output 8 to the Left input.
3. Go to Input Thru, turn it ON, source: Analog, Mode: L,
4. Assign Filter 1 Type to Low Pass and put the Freq at 50. If all has gone well so far, your beat should now be coming back muffled (if it's distorted, turn down the Rec Gain).

5. Now go to Slider Mode (Shift Pad 1) and change Assign Pad to IN (scroll to the end of the list of pads).
6. Make sure Parameter is set to Cutoff1.

That's it. Q-Link Slider 1 will now control the filter cutoff for your entire drum beat (or anything you route to Output 8 ). You could just as easily use a stereo signal, using 2 of the outputs, and input Thru Mode set to ST(ereo).

For more fun, you can resample your beat whilst getting jiggy with the filter, and rechop the resulting loop. Notice that you can also apply effects to the Input Thru signal aswell.

Lots of fun

Brilliant!!!

PS: LFO'S rule.

rozzer - that kicks ass. nice thinking. finally a reason to use input thru on my 1000. opens up a lot of cool possibilities.

Sidechaining chopped drums through a compressor wih soundscapish noise underneath fills silent gaps very nicely and adds a layer of depth.

I've been tring to do something that was possible in Ableton live. I'm trying to layer samples with auto chromatic. But I'd like to tune the different samples to make it like a muti osc digital synth.

So have pad A1 with three parts set to note on all looped.
Leave the first sample at its current tune.
Set the second layer 5 semitones higher.
Set the third sample 7 semitones higher.

Unfortunately autochrom will set all the samples on one pad together. So it'll set the tune for all samples together on the one pad. This would be a great feature request. I tried using pitch shift for the individual pads in trim mode. I got close to the effect I was after.

udenjoe wrote:I've been tring to do something that was possible in Ableton live. I'm trying to layer samples with auto chromatic. But I'd like to tune the different samples to make it like a muti osc digital synth.

So have pad A1 with three parts set to note on all looped.
Leave the first sample at its current tune.
Set the second layer 5 semitones higher.
Set the third sample 7 semitones higher.

Unfortunately autochrom will set all the samples on one pad together.

So what is the main problem doing it this way? The relative tuning between the samples not being correct anymore?

Yes, that is what I'm trying to get. I'd like to keep the other samples 5 or 7 or 12 tones off.