Yeah, nothing wrong with not taking to a usage paradigm immediately (same for me and the Squarp Pyramid… )
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And I’ve had quite a few mpcs in my lifetime, yet it just doesn’t click…
Is there a way to sample exactly 4 bars?
Yes, just use the looper instead of the sampler.
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Thank you!
That’s probably the most used function on my MPC, my only stuggle with it is that I still cant figure out how to add some cross fade effect on what I’ve sampled to avoid those nasty clicks when playing back my loops.
Crossfade looping is something I outlined a few pages back.
You have to enable it on a sample I sample edit then assign it to a pad. It can’t be added to a sample already in a program annoyingly
This is the post about crossfade looping
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That’s what I didnt get !
I also Saw that I bookmarked your post above but didnt took time to examine it before my drone session yesterday 
thx for your wisdom.
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No problem 
The method is so bad it feels like a work-around exploiting a bug, yet its an actual function and the actual method.
As a Product Designer, I’d have rejected it if offered to me as an appropriate UX solution.
As a customer / user I wonder how on earth this got approved and why on earth they couldn’t have made this, and 20 other functions, more intuitive.
But hey, better to have it added in an update than never brought to the system huh?
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I think the Mpc is/was somehow held back by lots of inherited ways of working. It does feel like one of those house that have been through many rounds of extension and renovation, sure it’s nice but doesn’t really feel cohesive…
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Indeed, that wont help about my love/hate relation with it. So frequently seems to be “that” close to be slick, but nope.
Yup. This is what it is.
The difficulty with products that have a huge lineage and massive following, is trying to make something that appeals to the old-skool, while implementing radically new technologies and techniques.
It’s almost so bad for the MPC line that they should consider splitting the product into Classic and New Hotness, with the first leaning hard into the old style with technology turning everything up to 11 and the second a clean slate.
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So I was thinking last night just as I went to bed, “Hey, wouldn’t it be nice to play my MPC with drum pads instead of finger pads?” I’m a drummer and I think pads like this would help me inject a lot more of my playing personality into my drums.
So, I’m looking for a small, preferably 4ish pad midi controller that can be played with drum sticks, hopefully on the cheaper side of things. It doesn’t have to be fancy, it doesn’t have to do a bunch of extra stuff, it just needs to trigger my drum sounds when I hit it with a stick. Cheap is important, cuz I really shouldn’t be buying any really expensive gear right now (after buying my MPC One), and small is important since my space is rather limited.
Any suggestions?
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there are others but probably not as cheap as Alesis… and they might have several versions to choose from
might wanna check out the km bop as well
of course roland has some similar to the Alesis for more dough
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You can also play the mpc pads with sticks……
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Not when you hit as hard as I do
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I would like to see a video of this in practice. Anyone got a link?
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