Copying track for layering purposes

Hello all,

I've been using a DAW for years, and just bought a 2500. I'm still trying to figure out how to replicate DAW MIDI techniques on the MPC, so please bear with me.

Let's say I want to layer two kick drum samples to get a beefier sound. I have a program with my two kick samples on separate pads. If I have a kick drum pattern programmed on track 1 using kick sample 1, how do I copy the track 1 MIDI data to track 2 in order to trigger kick sample 2?

I'm guessing I can use grid edit to copy the first kick drum pattern to the separate (kick 2) pad. Is this right?

What I'm getting at is I want the two tracks to have the same feel (velocity, timing), but have them trigger separate kick samples. That way the MIDI data is identical.

Thanks.

Lampdog wrote:What about copy track maybe? 2500 pg 23 os1.0 manual

Maybe in the later os's there is a simult function like in 2kxl that lets you trigger 2 more pads w/ one pad, I don't know. Maybe someone else can answer that one. I have a 2kxl, not a 2500.

Lampdog, thanks for the reply. This got me thinking - in the 2500 program page you can assign 4 different samples to each pad. So I should be able to assign both kick samples to a single pad, and leave the velocity setting at 1-127 for both samples (so any velocity will trigger each sample simultaneously). That way both kicks would sound when that pad is triggered. Right?