Oh yes. Of course. That can be a good idea. I never try it, cause at the time I had not the MnM. But I used the mpc pads to trig MD patterns. It’s the same with MnM (++ arp!)
When preparing your MD patterns in view to use the instant start (thanks to multimap), try to not always begin your patterns by a kick. Have in mind to create patterns that begin by snares, or rolls, or hit hat, or crash+snares and also silents.
The reason for that is due to the fact that multimap can’t permit offset (it would be great). So if you build all your patterns in a classical way (begining by kick), you will have to much kicks (can be also a kind of music and the result could be unsatisfying. Also your snares breaks will be hard to play and improvise.
The procedure I often used was to create an unique pattern for a specific song, and slice it on several patterns. A kind of slice spreads over several patterns. It permit to achieved two goals :
- really dig the Amen technic to create good drums (it’s the same thing than I explain, ie to dispose of differents type of pattern begining) that must be the center of your song. Then you’ll be able to tweak them, in live performance (fnction+extended), or have loooong rolls on wich you can apply pitch and filter motions.
-second, that unique original pattern will give a real identity to your song, it will be a more coherent construction (that often lacks on breakcore productions).
This kind of “slicing” is a bit long to prepare, but gratification will be au rendez-vous.
Don’t forget the more important : Havfun