Is there an alternating option for loops in mp1k?

In the earliest samplers, even Akai's own first S612, there were several options for looping. One-shot, forward, reverse, reverse one-shot, and alternating. It seems like most machines no longer have an alternating option. Is there any way to do this on the 1k?

yup! go to mode/ hit program/ then you should see the window key
glow. hit the window key and PRESTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One-shot
Yes, it's in there.

forward
Yes, it's in there.

reverse
Yes, it's in there.

one-shot
Yes, it's in there.

You need to read up on the machine capabilities.

I guess I didn't ask this right. Is there any version that has an alternating option?

sounds like you are looking for crossfade looping, and no the mpc1000 does not have that feature. my s950 has it and it looks like fun, unfortunatly i don't have my midi setup and haven't had a chance to use it yet. soon though.

pad-ophiliac wrote:sounds like you are looking for crossfade looping

No, he's looking for alternate looping

And that's something the 950 actually has as well, playing the loop back forwards, then backwards, then forwards again and so on...

I've never seen another sampler with that option - but I'm sure I heard that effect in one or two DJ Shadow tracks already.

It was also an option on my old Roland S-550. For some reason, the newer samplers don't have this option. (The Fantom X doesn't have it either.) It just seems strange to me that they would get rid of it, especially since it would be such a simple program. It also effects a lot of older samples that used this option. You can fake it of course by combining two of the same samples. One forward and the other reversed. The main difference being that you can't minipulate the loop point. You basically have to splice them over and over untill you get the loop point where you want it. Anyone else miss this option?

Obviously it wasn't deemed to be such a valuable function to have, so it vanished from the OSs again - also given the fact that you can always emulate it with a reverse copy of the sample, which is standard on every sampler still.

But even if you don't need to have a dedicated function to do it - such functions can serve as a creative input, meaning you wouldn't get the idea to do this if you never got this function.

Try Reason, the nnxt sampler has it.