Christ Almighty! Why are my loops decaying?

I have a drum loop that I want to play infinitely as a one-shot! it loops but then on the second pass it starts to decay. I have messed with all of the amp envelope settings. Tried decay on/off, tried bumping up the decay in the amp env.. no love.

any help?

I have a drum loop that I want to play infinitely as a one-shot!

here's the problem. mpcs don't do that.
you've gotta use your sequencer.

lame. god it's a nightmare trying to get my MPC set up for live performace.

Do you know if it's possible to sync the MPC as a master so that it doesn't send song pointer positions during "next seq" mode? You see I'm slaving my DAW sequencer to it. My sequencer is running full tracks. Every time I jump to a new sequence in "next seq" it sends my DAW back to 1:1:1.

Any ideas here?

oops!..double post!

amazing, so i upgraded to JJos 2 to limit my live set ability.... just great...

I don't know, I'm beginning to think that the MPC might not be the way to go for song based performance. Maybe I should just go the boring route of Ableton Live with an MPD controller...

To bad because I hate performing live with a computer. It makes me nervous. I have to get a live set together in the next 2 weeks and I'm only encountering limitations with the MPC. I feel like I've learned it inside out.

the akai os 2.11 has a cool feature id like JJ to include that does just this.

basically you can set a patch phrase sample to loop and it will play continually as you describe without fading away.

Nym wrote:

I have a drum loop that I want to play infinitely as a one-shot!

here's the problem. mpcs don't do that.
you've gotta use your sequencer.

Thats true nym (prior to 2.11) but JJ has added loads of stuff that mpc's dont do.
I wouldnt use patch phrase loops for composition purposes but it'd cool for playing around with for live sets.

considering how many people post here asking "how do i trigger a loop and play it continually" and its also in the current akai os. I dont think it be a bad idea for JJ to add it too. Id definitely find a use for roland sp type loop triggers alongside all JJ's other additions.

^^^
apologies

i should of said akai 2.12 at the beginning of that message.

Nym wrote:here's the problem. mpcs don't do that.
you've gotta use your sequencer.

+1

I don´t care how many people ask for this, it´s got nothing to do with the concept of the mpc. It would be another little gadget with no real use when sequencing.

Oh, the akai os does that with patchphrases? Wow, a gimmick + a gimmick

haha true. the loop gimmick does make the feature more usable though... like i said , for using the mpc live rather than composition, i wouldnt use patch phrase for any thing else.

also given how many things JJOS adds to the mpc which arent "what mpc's do".. people said the same when JJ brought in proper ADSR ! admittedly ADSR is a more powerful feature, and consequently a lot more effort on JJ's part.. but looping a patch phrase seems like a minor tweak to me.... if akai can do it!