In berlin i couldnt even play on my po 12 without getting attention af.
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however, this is a cool little tip that mostly only the OGās know about
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What is it usefull for? I always throw my clips in a empty miditrack to make a midiinstrument from a sample which seems to be faster.
itsā a does what it says on the tin kind of thing, more of a different way to do something than betterā¦ itās a really old feature and I remember being excited about it way back as something akin to 16 levels. Iāve been using ableton since the 1.0 days, I canāt remember if the feature was available from the start but it feels like it was or at least closeā¦ and as you know ableton has come a loooong way since
True. And it us usefull to have different ways. I love ableton the only thing thats sucks ass is the extremly limited busssystem
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DID I ever mention how much I love Retrospective Record for midi data?
Plug in the keystep, choose a plugin or a Keygroup or an external synth and just start playing.
Did that last 2 minutes sound awesome?
Shift + Record.
Bam. 187 bars of polyphonic midi, 4096 events, sitting on the piano roll.
So letās find that sweet bit. Delete the noodling. Nudge things around. Letās play that back. Cool. Letās edit some parameters. Try a different patch.
Dunno what to do with it? Letās just record 100 bars, save the project and drop it in a folder for another day.
I know itās not an 8 bar loop style of working, but it saves archiving hundreds of hours of wav files with no associated midi, just on the off chance.
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Yeah, itās a super smart feature. Perfect for piano noodling.
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Fantastic, I wasnāt aware of this feature. Thanks!
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I was mainly using the MPC Live as an ideaās scratchpad, but Iāve recently been trying to do full tracks on it. Does anyone here, have any tips or tricks that I should absolutely know?
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wonder how difficult it would be to add Rolands skipback to make it completeā¦ the mpc is so nice already but still
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I was thinking the same thing, I donāt have the 404MKII but that feature alone makes it incredibly useful.
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Once you have a few patterns going, enter pattern mode, press play and start triggering patterns. Once you press stop, the āto songā button will be active and turn your performance into a song in song mode.
From Song mode, press overdub, then press the pads corresponding to the patterns to create your song structure and voila, song structure done in seconds. You can also press a pad multiple times to repeat that pattern.
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Thanks, Automageddon! This is sort of how Iāve been going about it but your breakdown seems a lot more streamlined!
This so cool!
What is a pattern? And whereās that āto songā button? Are we talking about the same machine here?
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Heās talking about next sequence view, basically you can hit overdub and record your next screen jam to the song mode playlist the convert that to a new sequenceā¦
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Sorry, I keep confusing terminology across machinesā¦
Patterns = In MPC speak itās a SEQUENCE
Pattern mode = Next SEQ
In the next sequence screen the āto songā button is at the bottom left of the screen. No need to press record.
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This drove me nuts in the beginning days on the MPC. Had they called it a pattern I would have gelled with it much quicker.
To be fair to Akai, this terminology has been around for a loooong time.
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100% a me problem. I was so used to the term pattern, sequence took a minute to figure out.
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