Pads assigned to different tracks?

Hey all,

I'm new to hardware samplers/sequencers. Been using software exclusively for all sequencing/recording/sampling. I've always wanted a MPC and the new price drop of the 2500 finally justified a purchase. I'm having a **** of a time adjusting my Ableton Live workflow to the MPC... things that are super easy with Live and Vsts take a lot of manual work on the MPC, but ultimately i'm having fun with it.

My question, can I assign each pad to a different track? I like to record drum lives, the entire kit at once. I've noticed that a lot of Youtube videos show the recording process being done one track at a time... e.g record HHs on track 1, record snares on track 2, kicks on track 3, and so on. If I can't assign pads to different tracks, is there an easy way to separate the recorded midi onto different tracks? I'm using JJOS2 btw..

Hope I'm making sense. Peace

a lot of youtube videos show drums being recorded on different tracks...doesn't mean this is a good practice.

like you, i like to record all my drums live, the entire kit at once.
do it on 1 track. there's no reason to do it otherwise when you've got so many graphical edit modes to work in. i believe that the only reason myself and many others used to do 1 track at a time is because of Step Edit, which is an ugly tool to use if you've got a lot going on in it.

except for live muting, there's no point/added function when you record your different drums on different tracks. you can still route the outputs, perform individual level adjustments, etc when they're all in the same track. on top of this, you have the added bonus of being able to view them together in grid/midi edit.

right on, although i think i like the idea of being able to adjust each drum sound along with any other samples from the mixer rather than having to switch to the program bank.

you're youtube vids are dope. that divide and conquer vid helped a lot.

have you ever worked with software sequencers or samplers or do you work exclusively with the MPC? i thought it was really cool how you made instruments; i wasn't even awware the mpc could do that, but i cant help but think how much easier it is to do that on a software sampler.

i started with acid, moved to reaper, and in the middle i picked up reason, which i still use.

multisampling is way easier on softwares (basically cuz you can just use banks, rather than building your own inst pgms) but it's still very handy to have inst pgms on the mpc for prototyping and for stealing sounds off hardware romplers

thanks for the comment on the vids