The "Tips and Tricks" thread

actually ive been doing that recently quite abit. Time stretch the sample, then resample it. and then stretch the new sample back to the original tempo. It gives a really grainy messed up sound.

J.Daniels wrote:actually ive been doing that recently quite abit. Time stretch the sample, then resample it. and then stretch the new sample back to the original tempo. It gives a really grainy messed up sound.

Oh I see.... timestretch, that makes sense.

Thats also why alot of the tracks made on the sp1200 sound so dirty. because the vinyls would be sped up on the turntable so they could slow it down on the sp, in order to save sample time. In addition to the 12 bit converters ofcourse...


so thats something that all might wanna try - speeding up the turntable and then timestretch to the desired tempo on the mp. results are often very pleasing...

anyone know the "trick" to show all your tracks at once so you could easily mute tracks on an off instead of having to cycle through them all fast with the jogwheel?
my homie showed me once but i forgot how to do it.......{sighs}.

which mpc are you using?

i only have a 1k.. but there's a button near the top right called "track mute".. and, im pretty sure they're on EVERY mpc..

so, look for a button called "track mute"

yeah i know that,but theres a way to bring up all your tracks at once,so you could quickly mute them instead of just one at a time then having to cycle over to a different one.

when you hit the track mute button.. it brings up a screen that has every track on it, and each track has a "pad" assigned to it..

so.. lets say your song has 4 tracks.. track 1 will be on pad 1, track 2 on pad 2, etc..

you hit the pad, it mutes the track, press it again, it unmutes the track etc etc etc.. pretty simple

is that what you're tryin to find out?

not really..

es-k wrote: im pretty sure they're on EVERY mpc..

so, look for a button called "track mute"

i hear people talk about track mutes a lot on other sections of the forum.. just figured that it was on most mpc, seems like a basic function.

i know its ont he 2k and 1k... well i think so at least

**** i dunno..

anyways..

yeah.

yeah i got a mpc2000.

i found out how to do it tho...

Track mutes on the old 2000"

We all know the mpc2000xl has a track mute button,allowing you to mute out many tracks at once....but 2000 owners did you know your old mpc2000 dose it too..

Here is how

Go to your main screen while your seq is playing.

to the right of your track number you have "on" (or "off" if that track is muted) .Highlight "on" now open window...

There it is the same track mute screen the mpc2000xl has.

Now by pressing your drum pads is will mute out tracks.


good looking tho,my homie showed me awhile back an i always thought you could do it like that(all at once) but without assigning to pads.guess its been awhile.

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ah, sorry that i could help

a post by someone else - greaaaat tips here

i think the key to that spaciousness is all in the arrangement. what i mean is dre's beats are usually very simple, not a lot of seperate elements. this allows each element to take up more space in the mix. you can really pan things out to where they are really seperate from the others.

also, the use of very subtle delays can create a sense of space. usually very short delays. take a mono source, like a gtr for example, and pan that hard right. then take a very short delay, like 30ms or so, maybe more maybe less, and pan that hard left. play around with the delay time, feedback, and EQ, rouch of verb maybe, and it can be a cool effect.


another trick, sort of similar, is to take a stereo source, say an electric gtr lead and double. pan them left and right, but delay one side of the pair by 10-50ms. makes it sound like the sound is coming from outside the speakers.

but with these tricks you ALWAYS have to check them in mono, because your playing with the phase and you don't want the sound to cancel in mono.

using the qlink on the mpc when its assigned to start sample time thingy..

haha

if you hold down a sample on noterepeat and slowly move the slider up or down you get a realllllly cool effect

good for transitions and "filling" up empty space.

it just sounds too sick.

glad to see this thread still breathin. i say sticky this thang

simple ones, but useful (i'll admit i'm a not a pro user lol)

let the drums breathe (don't go mad with the drums). Keep them simple and don't add too much to them.

Read the manual! (i'm still finding shit i never knew existed lol)

Don't quantize just because everyone else does. It only works for some.

Get rid of the metronome!! For me it gets in the way. Gettin rid of it allows you to experiment more, but you need to be able to count bars!

Think like a musician, not a programmer. Don't look at the MPC like a drum machine. As a machine the MPC is a stupid. It only does what it's told.

Don't copy other producers, e.g. JDilla's drums, cos you're proving **** all and in my view it's just dumb. Simple things like: layering, ajusting pitch, sampling at different tempos, experimenting and digging can all improve your drums.