Looping shorter than 1 bar ?

Ok, my first attempt at a stupid OS question:

Is it possible to loop a sequence in the mpc shorter than 1 bar, e.g. for a 1/2 or 1/4 bar ?

I mangled around with the loop function but i found nothing.

i do this often in live when making more electronic music.

that would be a neat feature.

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your best bet would be to create a new sequence and double the tempo of whatever loop you are playing on it, that would mimick having a 1/2 bar in terms of your song.

I'd have to know what you are trying to do to be able to give you more information about the options available.

Lithion wrote:


your best bet would be to create a new sequence and double the tempo of whatever loop you are playing on it, that would mimick having a 1/2 bar in terms of your song.

Pretty much your only solution unless we are talking about something you could resample and then trigger.

Satoyo wrote:Ok, my first attempt at a stupid OS question:

Is it possible to loop a sequence in the mpc shorter than 1 bar, e.g. for a 1/2 or 1/4 bar ?

I mangled around with the loop function but i found nothing.

i do this often in live when making more electronic music.

that would be a neat feature.

change the time signature. Don't listen to the others in this thread, they don't have an idea.

hit the play start button

tag wrote:

Satoyo wrote:Ok, my first attempt at a stupid OS question:

Is it possible to loop a sequence in the mpc shorter than 1 bar, e.g. for a 1/2 or 1/4 bar ?

I mangled around with the loop function but i found nothing.

i do this often in live when making more electronic music.

that would be a neat feature.

change the time signature. Don't listen to the others in this thread, they don't have an idea.

If it was a loop that TS could take care of then the problem should not have existed in the first place.
That would be to obvious.
I would like to think the question was because he was using combinations of odds loops that wouldn't fit.
Then again maybe he wasn't.

doubletime would have been also a solution, but due to syncing, i'd like to keep original tempo.


Yeah, time signature can be changed to 1/4 and 2/4.
It works also fine with Simult Sequence and longer loops in the 2nd
sequence.

@ lithion:
i use it for more electronic sounding stuff (*cough* Minimal Techno *cough*). half or quarter bar loops have a more techy, repetitive groove and feel. but for hip hop it isn't that suited.

@ mkl:
...got it!

thanks for the help, folks