Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Damo303 Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:47 am
Hello there, I have had an MPC2000Xl for a few months now and 2 things puzzle me and haven’t come across how to do it yet:

Can anyone tell me how I switch from one sequence to the next whilst running in midi clock mode with Cubase? And is there a program change command to do this in Cubase?

After creating a sequence on the MPC I have discovered that I think one hit of a bass drum is too loud or I want to move the drum kick to a different position in the groove, how do I do this finer detailed editing on the MPC? Which menu should I be looking for?

Any help appreciated!

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Byharlej Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:25 pm
After creating a sequence on the MPC I have discovered that I think one hit of a bass drum is too loud or I want to move the drum kick to a different position in the groove, how do I do this finer detailed editing on the MPC? Which menu should I be looking for?


Step edit mode in main screen.

Can anyone tell me how I switch from one sequence to the next whilst running in midi clock mode with Cubase?


You didin't tell us what's the master.
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By Perks Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:29 pm
for the loud bass drum you could go to the mixer and turn down the volume. you could also lover the velocity in the main screen.

the moving part can be done in step edit like dude said above

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By Damo303 Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:33 pm
harlej wrote:
After creating a sequence on the MPC I have discovered that I think one hit of a bass drum is too loud or I want to move the drum kick to a different position in the groove, how do I do this finer detailed editing on the MPC? Which menu should I be looking for?


Step edit mode in main screen.

Can anyone tell me how I switch from one sequence to the next whilst running in midi clock mode with Cubase?


You didin't tell us what's the master.


Cubase, can you send Program chgange commands from Cubase to teh MPC to tell it to play teh next sequence, i've tried and it doesn't work.
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By Lampdog Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:41 pm
Perks wrote:for the loud bass drum you could go to the mixer and turn down the volume.

That would be prefect IF the samples were separated to pads right, turn down each individual pad
on the mixer right. What if all the samples are on the same track?!?! Step edit.


Perks wrote:you could also lover the velocity in the main screen.

Would that affect the whole track? Doing this might be perfect if like said above, the samples were separated to their own tracks/pads. right?!?!

@ Damo303
Are samples on their own tracks separated, ie, kick=trk1, snr=trk2, hhat=trk3, etc?
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By Lampdog Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:39 pm
Each sample should be on it's own track, so that you can mix each pad in the mixer screen.
Each sample will get it's own volume that way.

Copy that original trk to trk2, then delete all samples except snr.
Copy that original trk to trk3, then delete all samples except kick.
Copy that original trk to trk4, then delete all samples except hhat.
Copy that original trk to trk5, then delete all samples except tom, etc, you get what I'm saying.

Then in your mixer you can control the mix of each pad individually.
Do not put everything on 1 track, I understand people do that for feel at first, I do too.
I separate the samples later on just like I'm telling you now for this exact reason, mixer control.
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By Lampdog Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:46 pm
Jean Claude Trans Am wrote:I thought you could still control the mixer even if you're only using one track, doesn't the mixer correspond with the pads, not the tracks?

Mixer with pads, yeah, your right, I was thinking pad/mixer/track separation and mixed some stuff up, sorry for the confusion.

Track separation is good for tracking out individually.
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By DJ JEFF Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:03 am
Lampdog wrote:Each sample should be on it's own track, so that you can mix each pad in the mixer screen.
Each sample will get it's own volume that way.

Copy that original trk to trk2, then delete all samples except snr.
Copy that original trk to trk3, then delete all samples except kick.
Copy that original trk to trk4, then delete all samples except hhat.
Copy that original trk to trk5, then delete all samples except tom, etc, you get what I'm saying.

Then in your mixer you can control the mix of each pad individually.
Do not put everything on 1 track, I understand people do that for feel at first, I do too.
I separate the samples later on just like I'm telling you now for this exact reason, mixer control.


?? if you delete the samples the copied tracks will be empty

just delete the track and put the same samples on seperate tracks is my advice
By Jean Claude Trans Am Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:02 pm
DJ JEFF wrote:
Lampdog wrote:Each sample should be on it's own track, so that you can mix each pad in the mixer screen.
Each sample will get it's own volume that way.

Copy that original trk to trk2, then delete all samples except snr.
Copy that original trk to trk3, then delete all samples except kick.
Copy that original trk to trk4, then delete all samples except hhat.
Copy that original trk to trk5, then delete all samples except tom, etc, you get what I'm saying.

Then in your mixer you can control the mix of each pad individually.
Do not put everything on 1 track, I understand people do that for feel at first, I do too.
I separate the samples later on just like I'm telling you now for this exact reason, mixer control.


?? if you delete the samples the copied tracks will be empty

just delete the track and put the same samples on seperate tracks is my advice

That's not what he's telling him to do, he said delete the samples from the track not from the mpc, as in delete the samples in step edit and move them to their own track
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By Lampdog Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:14 pm
For track separation, sigh, copy your original "all samples on 1 trk" to another, then on the
copied track only leave 1 sample.

Repeat this until all samples have their own tracks.

@Damo303, did you look into the mixer and correct the volume?
By Damo303 Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:00 pm
Correct me if i'm wrong but if I turn down the mixer channels for a pad wont that affect every drum hit in that sequence on that pad?

What if I want to amend the volume of only one drum hit in a sequence of 8 beats?

So for example I tap 8 kick drums in, all with different velocity. Only one of the kick drums I dont like the volume level, I want to adjust just that one kick and not affect the other 7 in the sequence.

I dont want to have to copy the same kick drum to 8 diferent Tracks, so I was thinking there must be a editing page for simple velocity changes of such kind?

I can get around this, i'm more interested in if you can send program changes from your master sequencer (Cubase or Live) so that the MPC changes Sequence number when playing?

I can do this with a Korg Electribe but doesn't seem to work with the MPC.
By Jean Claude Trans Am Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:09 pm
Damo303 wrote:Correct me if i'm wrong but if I turn down the mixer channels for a pad wont that affect every drum hit in that sequence on that pad?

What if I want to amend the volume of only one drum hit in a sequence of 8 beats?

So for example I tap 8 kick drums in, all with different velocity. Only one of the kick drums I dont like the volume level, I want to adjust just that one kick and not affect the other 7 in the sequence.

I dont want to have to copy the same kick drum to 8 diferent Tracks, so I was thinking there must be a editing page for simple velocity changes of such kind?

I can get around this, i'm more interested in if you can send program changes from your master sequencer (Cubase or Live) so that the MPC changes Sequence number when playing?

I can do this with a Korg Electribe but doesn't seem to work with the MPC.

Go to step edit and find the kick you want to change and change the velocity.

I'm not sure about the program changes though, sorry I can't help