out of the way mpc tips

Thanx a lot Rinseout! I'm gonna try thes out later today!

rinseout wrote:I got links to german tutorials, only thing in english is this: http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/

Hope that helps

Scales....and it plays...

wookjr wrote:

rinseout wrote:I got links to german tutorials, only thing in english is this: http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/

Hope that helps

Scales....and it plays...

Thats tight! I was actually talking about someone doing a tutorial on how to setup the MPC to do that trick with the selected keys in the scale only. But thanx again for that website, it was really cool.

I found a way of making a pretty basic Lil Jon-esque unison synth sound. Maybe a lil obvious but.

Load the Arp_Wave file from the MPC's internal memory and assign it to a pad on two levels. Set the second an octave higher than the first and bam, synthy goodness - use the fine tune to act as a "unison detune" function to fatten it up a little. I like to set these to note on - if you press note repeat while holding a pad the note repeat will play under the constant pad sound, making sort of sample and hold LFO like sound. combine this with some effects and throw your microkorg out the window!

not really, but still. kinda neat

hereo wrote:

wookjr wrote:

rinseout wrote:I got links to german tutorials, only thing in english is this: http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/

Hope that helps

Scales....and it plays...

Thats tight! I was actually talking about someone doing a tutorial on how to setup the MPC to do that trick with the selected keys in the scale only. But thanx again for that website, it was really cool.

Dope!

And hereo, to make programs that are just scales like that, use that website, pick a scale, create a program, then go in the note screen and set the note values accordingly.

Instant scale programs. Like for instance, C Minor Pentatonic would be

Pad 1: C
Pad 2: E flat
Pad 3: F
Pad 4: G
Pad 5: B flat
Pad 6: C

Then just keep going up in octaves for the remaining pads

According to that website. Although I would actually start at B flat for that one, because when playing minor pentatonic on guitar you always start a whole step down from the root note.

Edit: well you can't actually start lower than the lowest C because of MIDI (forgot about that) but with some other scales you could start one half step down if you wanted. However, if you just make one program starting at C, then go into global pad edit (Pad11) on JJ, you can just use the WHOLE key on the note parameter and keep bringing it up to go from C to C# to D, etc. etc. and have a program for each key. Or you could just make one program and adjust it accordingly.

Half-ass wavetable synthesis modulations:

Grab some wave cycle samples. These are really short waveforms usually tuned to A-440. (maybe I'll post up the Prophet vs and Waldorf microwave ones).

Import a bunch and loop em all.

Find one you like.

Assign 1 to a pad in a program.

Set to "note on" and fiddle w/ the envelope.

Create a new program with the "auto chromatic" function (set your root note accordingly).

Either make a new seq, or utilize a pre existing file. Assign your waveform program to the seq track(s).

Assign a q link slider or knob to note on/ sample start. Apply this to your entire new program.

Note repeat-shift and set the resolution to 32 triplets (this works way better w/ your clock is in "doubletime".

Make sure to hit the "after" button on the q link. Now play back your seq while turning/ sliding your sample start assigned qlink.

Yay! halfassed wave scanning!!!

rinseout wrote:I got links to german tutorials

post them...

Alright ... heres one that I think will work, but I haven't been able to try it. I don't own a PadKontrol or an MPD24, or an MPC1000 yet lol (picking it up in a few hours)


There is a dude with way more time on his hands than me who made a bunch of scenes (templates) for the Korg PK that are a bunch of different scales. I think the guy posts on FP and goes by Trusty.

Anyways I loaded a bunch of the scenes into the PK and would run it into my Ensoniq SQ-1 and Roland MC303 and it worked great. I don't see why this wouldn't work by running it into an MPC1000 using the Auto-chromatic assignment.

Basically this turns the Korg PK into a keyboard with a bunch of keys that are all in tune with the same scale. It feels like cheating. It's hard to play a wrong note. When I first did this using Reason I was laughing my ass off that I could actually play these great sounding chords... totally cheating. I do suggest using a Korg PK rather than the MPD24 for this, partially because Trusty already made the scenes for the Korg. But also because the Korg PK is much better at playing keys because the touch is so light. I would even say its better at playing keys than real weighted keys.



Once I get my hands on another PK I will be trying this for sure. If you guys want to hear the results of what I was able to do in Reason with this you can hear my weak little track on my Myspace page. www.myspace.com/wax808



Good luck, I hope and pray this works as well on the MPC1000.

thedvs01 wrote:

hereo wrote:

wookjr wrote:

rinseout wrote:I got links to german tutorials, only thing in english is this: http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/

Hope that helps

Scales....and it plays...

Thats tight! I was actually talking about someone doing a tutorial on how to setup the MPC to do that trick with the selected keys in the scale only. But thanx again for that website, it was really cool.

Dope!

And hereo, to make programs that are just scales like that, use that website, pick a scale, create a program, then go in the note screen and set the note values accordingly.

Instant scale programs. Like for instance, C Minor Pentatonic would be

Pad 1: C
Pad 2: E flat
Pad 3: F
Pad 4: G
Pad 5: B flat
Pad 6: C

Then just keep going up in octaves for the remaining pads

According to that website. Although I would actually start at B flat for that one, because when playing minor pentatonic on guitar you always start a whole step down from the root note.

Edit: well you can't actually start lower than the lowest C because of MIDI (forgot about that) but with some other scales you could start one half step down if you wanted. However, if you just make one program starting at C, then go into global pad edit (Pad11) on JJ, you can just use the WHOLE key on the note parameter and keep bringing it up to go from C to C# to D, etc. etc. and have a program for each key. Or you could just make one program and adjust it accordingly.

Good Look DVS!

wax808 wrote:Myspace page. www.myspace.com/wax808

dope glasswork

Thanks

HAHAHAHAHA

I don't know how out of the way this is, it might be basic but it helped me a great deal.

If you ever have two competing frequencies (like a bassline and an 808 kick) and its making your music muddy, make about 4-5 tracks of the same sound (like the kick) and 4-5 tracks of the conflicting sound (like the bassline) with each track actuating a different pad, but with the same sample on the different pads. Then use the bandpass filter like a notch filter, but alternating the frequency ranges (70 for the 808 on pad A1, 71 for the bassline on pad A2, 72 for the kick on B1 and so on and so forth). I've gotten some cool sounding effects that way.

Here is a weird one... not really MPC specific.


If you have an Ipod with a screen you can load up an OS called Rockbox. Besides all the cool things like different GUI's and tools it makes your Ipod the way it should be.

How does this compliment the MPC? Well Rockbox has a great folder interface for storing samples. It will read WAV, FLAC, OGG, all the lossless formats. This is great for recording and archiving vinyl to and then sampling it later on the road. You can also hook it up to a laptop and drag and drop samples to and from it. It is a great way to backup and store samples on multiple machines.

does roxbox allow you to bypass itunes?