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If you own an AKAI MPC 2000XL or similar MPC, Increase Your Power to Produce. Learn how to Make Your Beats Stand Out. This DVD includes everything you need to know to start producing High Quality beats with your AKAI MPC 2000XL drum machine. In under an hour You Will Have all the tools you need to Produce a Professional Beat and much more.
Chapters include:
- 1. Getting to know your MPC
- 2. Saving & Loading
- 3. Production
- 4. Song Mode
- 5. Mixing
- 6. Recording with MIDI
- 7. Sampling
- 8. Programming Parameters
- 9. Installing Components
Total Running time 58:06
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so, I assign a midi pad for the whole wave sample of the electric guitar, press record and play button and hold the pad on which I assigned the sample. Lets say the sample is 10 seconds long. You see the midi pad pressed on the beginning of the midi track, and then nothing for other bars up to the 10 seconds. what if I want to lay down drums from fifth second, and the midi is not triggered since the time when I pressed the midi button is at the beginning of the track.
how do I overcome that, because I want to hear the other sample (of the electric guitar) even if I don’t start from the beginning of the loop everytime?
Btw, if you look at the bottom right hand corner of any samples filter page,
You will see a Depth / Pitch control..
If you switch on the Filter and turn that knob up or down, the ADSR there will now
Control the Pitch of the sample or loop in response to the ADSR shape. and we are talking about an 8 stage envelope here LOL. Groove manipulation here I come..
Assign long samples such as your electric guitar sample to an audio phrase instead of a patch.
Assign long samples such as your electric guitar to an audio phrase bank instead of a patch
When you press record on an audio track use DIRECT MODE for live mic input or anything plugged into the analog inputs or EVENT MODE for triggering audio phrases within the audio phrase bank.
Its only splitting the region , which creates a reference point for the MV. If your audio was already BPM synced nothing changes , it just keeps it from drifting over time.
Hi Mike. I wonder if you could try something on th MV… Keep the part of the phrase you had selected in this example and then run 2 commands. 1- copy and insert (to single track) 2- Cut. I have an idea that this should make a split without cutting any audio out.
There is NO audio being cut out. Your simply splitting 1 region into 2. In fact your not cutting anything out , its merely acting as a reference point for the MV to clock to. The audio tracks reside in RAM, thats why this works.
I think Cut does what it says. there aren’t any scissors or a split audio command in the MV. as far as I have tested so far, by selecting an audio phrase part and selecting cut, the MV then cuts that selection out and shunts what’s remaining to the end of the section before the song position where the cut was made. unless there is some other selections I have set which is making this happen. to get a split, I cut out one (ticks worth of audio phrase) 1/480 ppqn. then I move the part for timing.
Ive been using this machine for many years and have recorded countless audio tracks on it ranging from live vocals and guitar takes to live dj sets. I have never had a problem with it cutting out audio when i do this method for simply splitting a region.
Keep in mind this is designed by Japanese engineers and sometimes the translation may not always make sense to everyone. So just because it says CUT it doesnt mean it literally cuts audio out. This was something i stumbled onto and found that it worked for long audio tracks that began to drift over a period of time since the MV does not have word clock.
Obviously it works because im showing it in detail on the video with instructions on how to do it.
Inserting that slice on very long audio takes acts as if you were pressing the pad to trigger again ( an EVENT ) , only not from the start but from a mid point which allows the MV to keep it in sync.
sure Mike, I have taken a lot of tips from your knowledge of the MV. when you cut, I notice you cut at a point where a singer is not usually singing.. so you wouldn’t notice audio missing there. but I am pretty sure cut does that.. I will try again and in different ways on the MV. I did test a few things and I ended up using copy & insert followed by cut.. that turned out like a virtual undo and the Audio was cut but nothing was changed. I also did – one tick cut, copy & insert = a tiny gap.
Well ive done it both ways and havent had any issues typically i do seperate regions where there obviously is no audio. Im not sure what the whole point of this is now, it works and corrects any issues people have with long audio tracks such as live vocal takes drifting etc etc.
Long audio does the same in DAW’s too. if the original is metronome perfect then the MV should be able to track that perfectly without drift.. which it does.. I tested it and it was just like any regular sampler. in fact better!! the -Drift- is non matching metronome bpm sync. it usually always is that. but there is a way to get exact lock in the MV.. as long as the original audiofile is tempo precise. if you have a bpm accurate track and you cut something out then true bpm has gone too.
Hi. ok I just tested it again. cut is cutting. the audio phrase gets shorter. so it’s being removed. it shunts the audio up to the song position pointer so it looks like a split function. Erase, just removes the section. there is no dedicated split function. but you can still do everything you need by – copy & insert- untick -shift all tracks- then -cut-. that is the same as a split. it does -copy & insert- at the song position though, so don’t move the SSP.
Its not the same in DAW’s because if your running an interface that has wordclock and the DAW itself supports word clock , smpte and all is streaming from the disk ( which is standard ) then there is no drift ( only latency is you have heavy cpu based plug-ins with no PDC within the DAW like Protools LE
The MV tracks audio fine its the playback that begins to drift over long periods of time because the audio is residing in RAM and not streaming from the disk and theres no word clock. A very long audio track that has 2 or 3 verse n hook even though TEMPO PRECISE … WILL DRIFT in the MV without a split in the region acting as a marker or reference point
sure.. I can understand why something in RAM “could go out over long stretches” but clocks ticks and bmps and sample rates never are mathematically divisible anyhow. so those things always correct.
I don’t see why Roland would badly clock in any regard though. Roland have made every kind of audio digital device going.
I’m really unsure about this drift being anything to do with the internal digital clocking. I might test a long click track recording and see.
This is a Mac Tool for calculating samples, bpm, Timestretch, Delay taps & even SMPTE timecodes. Music Math 4 .. there must be something similar for Windows somewhere. if you get a section of audio looping in the MV sample editor you can subtract the start sample loop number from the end sample loop number. then you have the total samples.
This tool will tell you the BPM of those samples. eg. it says 88200 samples at 44.1 and 4 Bars = 120BPM. it’s a good by ear musical way to get close BPM.
Tested. Resampling as a sample seems to drop 68 samples at 102.90 BPM.
resample as an audio phrase drops about 38 samples. if the sample that lost 68 samples was in continuos loop mode it would creep forward in time by 0.1 BPM
every 24 Bars at 102.90 BPM. adding 68 samples of silence at the samples end should sort that out though. triggered every 4 bars as a regular loop you won’t even notice it. They start right so the MV is Zero latency.
Hey peeps I’m a beginner on the MV8800, I just recorded a pattern in pattern mode and I’m trying to make a song out of it in song mode..I cant seem to assign my different sound patterns on the velocity pads in song mode so that I can organize my sequence. When I go to pattern list i only see one pattern which is all my sound patterns playing simultaneously…but I trying to separate the different sound patterns and assign them to each pad for song creation…PLEASE HELP.
I think Mike already did a video on that strong. search youtube for ( mv-8000 pattern mode ).. you need to create a pattern track in the main song. also you can create a mute track in each pattern.
so copy the main pattern many times. setup your mute choices in each pattern. go to song.. select the pattern track. shift record for step mode then just hit the pads in the order you want the patterns to play. Bingo!! .. if you save project first, you can reload without a save if you mess up..
where did you get your mv customized at ?