I took the jump to the good old mpc 1000, currently running jjos 3.16 - but I’ll upgrade to to jjos2xl someday.
I like the workflow, but at the moment everything is still going slow. Currently I’m only using samples and loops from my RY30, and cutting them up. It’s seems pretty nice everything, but I need some tips to get everything to the next level, when it comes to manipulation. The style I’m into is like ol skool 90’s idm beats, I would like to manipulate my samples further after I transfered them to the mpc. I like the vel-samplestart, it’s nice to get some weird idm-style cuts going - but I need more tricks, and since ze elektrons are beasts at mashin stuff up I’m thinking this is the right place to ask
What are you go to techniques, when it comes to manipulating and glitching out samples on the mpc jjos?
I dunno what exists on the free OS anymore, but one very powerful thing on 2xl and 3 (3 is the currently actively developed version, and is free to 2xl owners) is the non-destructive chop.
You can assign a sample to a pad, go to pad edit in trim mode, and give each pad its own start/end point in the same sample.
(2xl works slightly differently, where in trim mode you define all the non-destructive chops, and then in program mode you assign chops to pads. Just a slightly different workflow, same effect in the end)
So easy manipulation there (not the level I’ve heard of in the Octatrack, but it’s something)
You can also assign start/end point to the real-time q-link sliders, and record that, but I think within the mpc, non destructive chop is your ticket
Upgrade to osxl, The free JJ is just ok. All the good stuff is in osxl.
More Slider destinations for real time tweaks
Non destructive chop
Pad hold / Latch
Pad aftertouch
Pattern mode
Arpeggiator
Chord mode
Pad to MIDi CC
Pad cycle
Audio track
Looper
Lazy chop in OS 3
Quantized pad hold OS3
To be specific it’s a program type. Chords are selected via the chord bank and assigned to pads. Pads send chord data out to MIDI. OS3 makes it possible to save chords to the pads via MIDi keyboard
Thanks for the reply.
So you can choose a chord type from a bank (like maj7, dom7 minor9th etc), assign it to a pad to trigger an external synth? Does it allow you to pick the root key and keep everything in scale?
