Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
By oraziodelcore Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:21 am
whats your way to multitrack out of the 500?

I turn the volume down inside programmode on every single sound except the component(ex. kickdrum or drumloop) I'm tracking.

when I continue to the next sound I load up the project agin and turn everything down except the next component I want to track next(ex. Bassline)

feels like its a reallybig process to go thru, but I haven't thought of any other way..

*note:
I multitrack from songmode, where its note possible to solo a track, without entering everysingle seq and changing it from there.
ByErgg Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:25 pm
I haven't tracked out anything yet but I was planning to do it like this:

From sequence mode, using the solo option and by syncing the MPC500 thru midi with Logic 8.

I figure I could record each MPC track to a Logic track and do the processing there on the audio.

I don't use Song mode too often, but for your way of working I would like to suggest to convert your song to a sequence and then mute/solo the tracks. There is an option to create a single sequence from your song in song mode! (I believe you do lose tempo changes in your song).

Snerg
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By fatkyle Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:11 pm
track solo is the way to go on this one. i'm not familiar with song mode, but if you need a sequence to use track mute, then it's a good the mpc has the capability to convert a song into a sequence.
By oraziodelcore Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:41 pm
I'm tracking off of a different beat this time and now the mpc dosen't hang whenever performing seq convert...

I wonder why? I have the same OS as on the latest beat a tracked... (currently using 1.3.1 OS)

I wonder if It has anything to do with th eamount of mididata recorded on each sequencetrack....


but hey! it works this time so I shouldn't complain