Yes and if required you can map things differently.
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I canāt quite wrap my head around it. Iāve managed to map each pad to a chromatic note, easy to play from an external keyboard, but how can I address a single pad with multiple MIDI notes? Any tips?
The 16LEVELS Tune (chromatic) mode seems to send out SysEx messages instead of note-on messages.
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Thanks! Iām thinking of sequencing the MPC externally. But what you say might imply itās not possibleā¦ 
Use keygroup programs for that they respond to midi notes, the drum program pitches are not played with notes, the pads write tune offset automation instead. Keygroups are like traditional samplers with samples mapped across a midi keyboard.
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Okay, thanks everyone! Keygroups it is.
Does anyone know if thereās a way to have different scales/roots in pad perform mode on different sequences? It seems to be universal over the entire project from what I can tell.
My workaround is to record the MIDI of an idea with one scale or chord progression and then change it to something else when I switch to another program.
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Yeah that seems to be the way. Hopefully they can make it per sequence in the future.
So thereās one thing that bugs me with my MPC Live and itās not a ādeal-breakerā or any of that privileged nonsense. Itās probably an issue with my internal SSD. But when I export a recording made in the Looper and save to my SSD the PROGRESS dialogue box never disappears. It takes forever for the bar to fill (sometimes it never does) and most of the time after leaving it a couple of minutes the file has actually saved where I wanted it. But sometimes, especially if I become impatient, the file doesnāt save at all.
Does anyone else have this issue?
This is often the case when exporting from the looper or sampler. Use the KEEP button instead.
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I recently discovered this video featuring Mr G:
It has so much energy and looks like heās having a good time performing. It appears that heās sending individual outs from the MPC to his mixer. How is he likely using the MPC? Setting up lots of sequences (i.e. each sequence is a āsongā) and then somehow transitioning between them?
Yeah, itās great this set.
He uses a Mackie mixer with built in fx and takes 8 outs from the MPC.
Iād guess he just keeps all the tracks lined up consistently across sequences and switches between them. Amazing how much you can do with that set up, and I really dig howās heās consciously committed to that rig for 10+ years.
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Or he might have one massive sequence with tons of tracks and he just mutes/unmutes them to evolve the live set, this would allow him to somehow transition between tracks. Iām not a fan of that type of workflow but it is mighty flexible
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If you watch him he spends 95% of his time on the mixerā¦ most MPC action is on the jog wheel in between tracks. Iām not familiar with the MPC 2000 but Iād assume heās swapping seqs.
I like how he refers to his notebook too, man after my own heart there. 
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One of my favorite live sets of all times, super inspiring. Just prooves you donāt need much if youāre feeling the music.
This setup inspired my own live set, which is an MPC One, TR8S, and one monosynth. You can spend lifetimes on this setup aloneā¦
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Mutes on the MPC
And also performing on the mixer with mutes, sends, etc
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Is that soā¦ So would it be better to KEEP the sample then export it to my internal SSD that way? The Looper is amazing but this issue is driving me nuts! I conducted a Google search but couldnāt find anything on the subject.
This is why I still use separate tracks per drum sound even on the new MPC. Track mutes is the classic MPC workflow for me, and what he does a lot here.
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