I’ve put a request for lfo linking to sample start. I hope more people do it.
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I’ll put in a request for both LFO to sample start/end as well as midi to both. Huge potential there.
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did you try layering, Fx, freezing, and resampling before you came up basic?
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I haven’t tried the one yet, should have it tomorrow, and my only experience with an MPC was the 1000 when I was 12 or 13. I do have, and love, a Force, though. The Force was dead simple, I had a beat made and exported to an Ableton Set 30 minutes after turning it on. The whole system just made sense to me, so it clearly just has to depend on how our brains are wired. I hear people talk about how things ‘should’ work, such as the file management, rather than just rolling with how it does work, and I think that is their major issue. The OT, in the other hand, took about 24 hours before I made and arranged a full sampled beat. 48 hours before I sequenced my midi gear, sampled it in and made and arranged a track.
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Love this! It just goes to show with a little imagination you can take any machine way past it’s intended use.
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Hi!
Are the new MPC’s still terrible at being MIDI slaves? I think that has been an issue for a very long time now, and is actually right now a huge thing for me, and have tried googling, but the wealth of info on the matter with little recent opinions is a bit unsettling… Any knowledge?
Thanks!
I actually tried a bunch of stuff, and although he shows a bunch of cool stuff, none of it can be mapped to MIDI control or to LFO (or even Q-Link for that matter), which is what @Kingtiers was asking about.
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Yeah, I do plenty of mangling and resampling. I’m wanting LFO/MIDI to sample start/end to explore more generative possibilities.
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…and since this is MPC, there are a million ways to design the thing you want to do.
One idea for a pseudo-granular thingy:
Assign sample to Pad
put a noise gate or filter gate on a pad insert.
follow it up with a multi-tap delay
follow up with yet another gate.
Top off with an auto-panner.
All the parameters here are mappable to CC and you can also draw in your automation to act like an LFO, or send in a MIDI LFO from an external source.
On another pad, do the same with a reverse of the same sample.
Add non-linear reverb on the Program (also mappable to MIDI), set note repeats and offsets as shown in the video above and granularize to your heart’s content.
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If this is your absolute main concern then maybe you want a little Elektron to go with your MPC. That’s what I did…
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Well, it’s not really a concern, just a nice to have. I use Iris to do a lot of more crazy sample-based sound design stuff, anyway, but I’d love to be able to experiment with some granular stuff in the MPC.
This sounds pretty interesting. Going to try that out this week.
I think this can be done if you switch the MPC Live into controller mode and program it via the MPC software (not by my setup atm so can’t confirm). There’s a whole bunch of midi parameters that are only accessible this way - I believe to protect the MPC X’s tiering. Quite annoying.
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Okay, that’s interesting. I’ll five that a shot.
interesting,
so will the mappings still work when I disconnect and go back to standalone?
yeah I understood that and agree with wanting those things, but the mpc is a massive mangler so I was just suggesting some things to try out if you hadn’t already
Anyone use this as a MIDI slave? Is it working without hitches? Good sync?
I have it slaved to Studio One via USB (also tried with a midi cable from my interface). Works great. The only hiccups I’ve had are if I stop the MPC then try to start it again while S1 is running. It takes a bar to get back in sync.
I have it slaved, sending midi to a synth, and sending CV and it’s all working great.
Thanks 
sounds good!
Does this have MTC?