highly effective technique - "lightning assign"

this is something you'd benefit from, no question.

say you have a song loaded that uses 137 wav files. it's a big song, you've been working on it since december, and there is a lot going on.

now say you load a folder of 16 samples, NOT already in a pgm
this means you have to make a pgm, correct? correct.

so, make the program. what do you do normally? go into OPE, start at A01, and start spinning, spinning, spinning the dial?

no. not today.

enter GPE, go to the SAMPLE column, hit the WHOLE button, select A01-A16, and turn all the samples to the first of the last 16 samples in your list.

next, go back to the whole, and now set it to A02-A16

back to sample - nudge them all 1 over.

back to WHOLE, set to A03-A16

back to sample, nudge them all 1 over. you get into the groove of it, and it saves your data wheel from spinning, spinning spinning. saves you time and sanity, too.

you're still in a sense assigning them 1 at a time, but as you go, you're pushing/dragging the rest of the pads with you, so you don't have to go through all 137 samples on memory EVERY TIME just to get to the pertinent ones.

hereo's alternate explanation:

1) MODE+Pad 11 (GPE)
2) Cusor over to sample
3) Press WHOLE button
4) scroll and select sample
5) after sample is selected, Press and HOLD F4 (A01) and scroll clockwise to A02
6) select next sample.
7) repeat process until you've selected all your samples

Antonym wrote:hereo's alternate explanation:

1) MODE+Pad 11 (GPE)
2) Cusor over to sample
3) Press WHOLE button
4) scroll and select sample
5) after sample is selected, Press and HOLD F4 (A01) and scroll clockwise to A02
6) select next sample.
7) repeat process until you've selected all your samples

>> yep, better

Antonym wrote:
now say you load a folder of 16 samples, NOT already in a pgm
this means you have to make a pgm, correct? correct.

so, make the program. what do you do normally? go into OPE, start at A01, and start spinning, spinning, spinning the dial?

or you could use my suggestion from the other thread and just do it all from the load screen. i mean you have to load them anyway, why not just do it all from the "load" screen?

layers, for one reason. can only assign to the topmost layer from the load screen

this also applies if you have chopped additional samples that you want put into the same program as your previously chopped sample, not a new pgm

THANK YOu

so obvious, so simple.. but i never realized it was possible

I'm glad you made a thread about this Nym. This will help a lot of people.

wellsir it's just another one of those great things that makes GPE a superior PGM mode to its developmentally disabled little brother.

haha glad to share.

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Great tip nym. makes perfect sense

pad-ophiliac wrote:
or you could use my suggestion from the other thread and just do it all from the load screen. i mean you have to load them anyway, why not just do it all from the "load" screen?

You could do that, but if you just chopped the beat and its in your RAM now, than its already loaded up and you don't have the option of the Assign Pad to Window screen. So Nym's method is the best when dealing with samples/chops already loaded in the memory.

pad-ophiliac wrote:
or you could use my suggestion from the other thread and just do it all from the load screen. i mean you have to load them anyway, why not just do it all from the "load" screen?

You could do that, but if you just chopped the beat and its in your RAM now, than its already loaded up and you don't have the option of the Assign Pad to Window screen. So Nym's method is the best when dealing with samples/chops already loaded in the memory.

Nice tip Antonym. Keep em' comin!

Thx for this 1
thought the pad assign process was mad gloomy

Niiiice. Good work. How many hrs a week do you dig in that machine?