why isnt my midi keyboard playing my mpc notes right?

so you know how you can have the pads loaded up with samples? alright so if you connect your midi keyboard and you want to trigger the samples already on the pad with your midi keyboard..its supposed to work right?

it works for me but the problem im having is the order is all messed up.. like pad one would be the C key and Pad two would be the E key an octave above the pad1/C key.. how come it doesnt go in order? you know pad 1= C on the midi.. pad 2= D or say d flat.. etc etc

its all jumbled up.. and also if you assign the whole "sixteen level" thing on the mpc wherein a single sample is pitched in all the different pads chromatically how come the keyboard doesnt recorgnize that??

like if i've set my mpc to 16 levels and i press the pads it works but if i press my keyboard it only plays the original sampe in only the key that it used to play the sample....i was thinking if the original sample used to be triggered by the C key then the D , E , F should be a pitch increase accordingly..but when i press d, e , and F nothing happens.

i have an Xboard61 with only one midi output. no midi input slot. but i dont think that should have any impact on it..

First of all, it's always like that, that pads are not chromatically put together from bank A pad 1 to bank D pad 16. You have to create an empty program that has all notes assigned to each pad in the same order like keyboard has. So it would be bank A pad 1 - note 37, bank A pad 2 - note 38... and so on.
Save this program as a template and you can always reuse it when you want to play samples from your midi keyboard.
You can always use autochromatic function in the Program screen, it does the same job.

As for the 16 levels function, it won't work like you want it to. As by switching 16 levels tuning ON you are only changing the pitch of a sample and spread it on the 16 pads. But you are not creating a new program. So every different pitched sound from pad 1 to pad 16 will be the same NOTE but on different PAD with different pitch you know. That's the way I see it anyway. So your midi keyboard won't know, that it is suppose to play the same sample in a different pitch, as it can only see the same NOTE on each of 16 pads.
If you want to play the same sample in different pitch from your keyboard, you have to use auto chromatic function in the Program screen.

Just a note: Akai OS does not have autochromatic.

elektrik_muz wrote:Just a note: Akai OS does not have autochromatic.

My bad, I was talking about 2kxl.

The more I dive into MIDI the more I am disappointed by it..... But I truly think my expectations were a bit too high..... Oh well....

SHWELL wrote:The more I dive into MIDI the more I am disappointed by it..... But I truly think my expectations were a bit too high..... Oh well....

Well to be fair MIDI is a pretty all encompassing term. Everything that happens in the MPC as far as playback and sequencing goes is a MIDI event.

With any standard format there are going to be challenges and limitations depending on your gear and level of expertise. IMO it's pretty important to treat learning a new piece of gear as a project, you have to take it very seriously.

SHWELL wrote:The more I dive into MIDI the more I am disappointed by it..... But I truly think my expectations were a bit too high..... Oh well....

you clearly haven't dived far enough.

MIDI is pretty freakin amazing.



seriously - do some homework.

you clearly haven't dived far enough.

MIDI is pretty freakin amazing.



seriously - do some homework.

co sign