You know what would make a ton of money for them, now that they have built in a microphone, would be a simple pitch/transient-tracking plugin: letting you sing, play your favorite instrument, or whatever and convert to MIDI notes - a cut down version of Melodyne.
Monophonic pitch tracking is not that hard computationally, you do a fast fourier transform on the audio signal and pick out the fundamental, or check for additional correlations in the first few steps of the harmonic series if you want to be diligent about it. You can get OK results if you gate and quantize aggressively. It doesnāt take up a ton of CPU, there was a pitch detector on the Nord Modular that only used ~2% of the DSP. I built a patch inspired by Squarepusherās use of his bass to trigger drum hits but it turns out this isnāt as cool if you donāt have crazy bass shredding skills
I often come up with my favorite musical ideas while Iām in the shower or doing something in the kitchen and not focusing on gear, but for a long time I used to struggle to program them into a sequencer as my pitch discrimination isnāt great, eg I sometimes mistake up and down depending ont he scale relationship between two notes. Iāve gotten better with practice but I still struggle to identify what key a piece of music is in and am not good at identifying chords or harmony in general; so I generally do modal/diatonic music.
I agree and itās something that Iāve been hoping to see on the platform. Mind you, I think another Autotune knock off is more likely (though I donāt think thatās āvintageā enough this time around, despite being over a quarter of a century old), but any pitch detection/correction/manipulation would be a huge seller for them.
Shit, and I was all set to launch my Oblique Strategies expansion. Itās a drum kit of Brian Enoās advice cards sung by hot girls, perfect for adding an air of profound musical wisdom to your latest R&B or EDM banger
Got my Live 3 today! Was so excited and then couldnāt get it to connect to wifi for authorization. Turns out, MPC doesnāt like WPA3 SAE security on your wifi network. Switched my router to safely fallback to WPA2 for devices like this and it worked. Just an FYI for other folks who might run into this!
Now itās up and running and Iāve got an insane amount of learning to do once the kiddo goes down tonight.
It will take quite a while - the MPC system is very powerful but complex and fractured compared to the Elektron user interface. You will come across a few bugs, although ime Akai is pretty responsive about fixing things, and most bugs are of the ā____ doesnāt workā variety rather than lockups or data loss. Itās also quite menu-divey once you get into modulation and more advanced sorts of sound design. Some parts of the user interface are super-optimized and Just Work, eg the mixer section and the sample editing tools. Other parts are clunky - dialog boxes that are too big for the screen so you have to scroll them, endless menus in modulation setups etc.
As a practical matter, get used to using the scroll wheel in the lower right corner from the outset. You donāt need it because you can do many things with the touch screen, but a lot of the user interface is optimized for the scroll wheel and developing the habit of using with the screen controls will save you a lot of frustration. For example editing notes on the grid with the touchscreen alone is annoying and makes many users wish for a mouse. But selecting notes and then shuffling or transposing them with the wheel is fast and smooth.
That seems like a very plausible guess. The background image file was named ātdt-header-bannerā, so it wouldnāt be surprising if ādtā referred to double tracking.
