blaster18 wrote:Also, "NearTao", what do you mean it only mutes the note events not the actual audio...? I dunno this, Im a newb bro.
Im looking for the best way to do this mute thing, don't wanna develop no dumb ass way when there is probably a way that is so much more convenient through the mpc. PLus Im against software bros.
When you record in the sequencer on the MPC you are only recording an event, like you hit a pad or move a slider. You are not recording the actual sound in the sequencer. So if you have a sample that has a long play time, like a cymbal crash then in track mute, if you mute before the cymbal crash plays it won't play. If however you mute a little after the cymbal crash plays then your mute won't mute the cymbal crash because the MIDI event has already occurred.
I'm not sure I can give you a great work flow for the mute thing, but there are two ways that strike me as valid for what you want to do, but the first isn't reproducible.
1) You could work as is and use your track mutes and record your audio out to a computer, tape recorder or whatever you could end up with a pretty awesome live feel to it. This however isn't something you could easily go back to and make adjustments to later if you needed to tweak the volume of your bass or drums or whatever.
2) This is what a lot of people on here do, learn how to copy/duplicate your sequence (window -> copy) to another sequence. Do this for each variation that you need, and then you can string your sequences together in song mode. You'll lose that live feel, but it is 100% reproducible and easy to edit/tweak parts of the performance as necessary.
I'll end with what you had mentioned...
3) You could make your sequence very very long and then copy and paste your bars as needed. This will allow you to mute/unmute as needed for each part of your track and get that live/reproducible feel. The concern I have with doing this myself all the time is that it makes it much harder to go back and add or remove a section of the song. You'll end up doing a lot of copy/pasting and I haven't found this to be terribly efficient to do when you have more than one or two tracks. While fun and reproducible (and perhaps a decent middle ground to #2), you'll be limiting yourself to how much you can edit your song later without having to redo the entire performance from scratch.
