Since you are an Amen- break samplist. You forgot to mention the best part of clips-mode. You can take you Amen-break in sample edit mode. Chop it up. Export the chops to a clip program - you can do this. Edit the quantize to 1/4 or more for all clips. Now for all fingerdrummers who are too drunk to get their timing right - instant gratification. This is really the best part of this machine!
Aaron Garcia Lets say you have a perfectly timed break which is 32 bars long and does different things throughout/variations in structure and rhythm. You can chop that in to 8 x 4 bar loops or 16 x 2 bar loops. Then you can use them in clip mode as they will be perfectly timed.
dude, you should get payed by akai by sharing your knowledge on the mpc's. it's been a huge time saver for me to workaround the workflow of this insane machine. while my unit is on the way i've browsed many of your vid's & yeah dude, you should definitely get rewarded by akai, not by the amount of tutorials you post, but by the quality of your teaching, great work man !!! and thanks again ... (still laughing my head off with the launch of mars bar (english is not my mother tongue as you might have guessed), i had to wait for you to acknowledge that mars is chocolate to get your point ;-) how sad am i ;-)
Mate it's crazy learning these machines, I only learnt my MPC1000 properly eventually cause of covid and having the time. (having owned it for 10+ years already)
I know this video is a year old but I was just using clips and I was able to switch tracks and my clips from other tracks still played while I launched clips from different programs and different tracks.....I would have “loopmasters” on track one, and while a loop is playing, I am able to switch to another clip program and use the loops or one shots..m
Any chance of an updated video on MPC Clips? Have there been many updates to Clip Programs in the 5 years since this video? As with a lot of MPC features, the potential and depth of Clips is huge! As you demo’d in this video, 128 slots per Program is a massive amount to work with and I can see how it’s easy to build out full sets using a Clip Program per Sequence (which will then give you tempo change capability that’s missing on the Force, for example)… really got me thinking this. 👍
Nice viedeo's you're making. It's a pitty that you can not combine the sample clips with other track, because in live situations it would be nice to combine them with other hardware synths or modulars via midi, but than again, you have to use other tracks and the clips cut off. A good implmentation would be midi clips, that you can combine with the sample clips. It would be very demanding in live situations I think. Maybe a good reason to mention this to Akai to implement this ? I have the MPC X myself and Novation Peak and Access Virus C.
@@crappie050764 3 years later, is it possible? The force does that nicely where half of the pads are used to trigger clips and half of the pads are used to trigger "Drum Program sounds".
If you add music to any other tracks in the sequence then press play, those tracks play along as normal. If you're in the cop track you can play along with the other tracks.
This is so cool. I assume that since there are 8 banks of 16 pads there is a total of 128 loops possible. These loops can be triggered by the pads, but can I also trigger them using MIDI from an external MIDI controller? I know this might sound crazy, but I have an idea to make use of this 😊
Thanks for the video. So this is just for launching sample clips? Would be nice if the the clip program could also launch a drum midi pattern or midi pattern for say a synth bass etc..
@@jenniferw8963 Yeah but that should have been a simple inclusion from the start, I'd rather they put more time into making the clips launch properly and make the warping sound vastly better. Then I may be interested in using it. It seems very clunky and cheap in it's current state IMO.
@@TUBEDIGGA This MPC One is driving me crazy.. sometimes when I load a drum program it assigns all pads. Other times it assigns none. Such a waste of time. It should always assign the pads.
Still the same, no midi clips after 2.10...hopefully it’s coming totally stupid that I having to extra bounce plugin programs before. Why it doesn’t work like it’s assigning the samples bounce to their single pads??? This must be and also an arranger mode for audioclips and midi...really need it 😩
Love this tutorial! tried to set my clip program up the same way but ran into every problem imaginable. Clips cut off suddenly. Clips play too slow or fast. I noticed you had Sequence BPM set to 175, but many of your clips did not have the same BPM, yet they play fine. When I tried to do this, everything fell apart. Do all the clips have to be the same length and BPM? What am I missing here? Finally, do you do one-on-one sessions?
When Clips were introduced to the alpha/beta testing many years ago, I immediately wrote a bug report regarding Clips stopping after changing tracks. My bug report was rejected and I was told to write it up as a feature request. Because of this, I just ignore Clips all together.
Yeah I don’t use them either, they are very badly implemented. The warp algorithm is terrible and messes up the start of samples and the way they trigger is quite buzzard and unpredictable.
Is there a way of a clip containing midi data only? I'm using my mpc almost entirely as a midi sequencer. It would be amazing to have a different sequence on each pad for live switching between various chunks of a song.
This is super helpful! Is there a way so that when you hit the first pad, it cues the downbeat of the whole quantized playback? It looks like when you did your performance, the first pad waited until the loop length hit the downbeat and then started
@@thestevebrickman Yes, you can choose from several quantisation or time division values. Clips are no longer a feature in MPC 3 and personally I have never used them since making this video. I found the implementation of them very clunky and unrefined but don’t let me put you off if you’re enjoying them!
I am thinking that it may be possible to do some polyrythms by bouncing tracks for various lengths to samples and assembling them into clip programs. Will try that. Thx for all of those inspriring videos.
Hey man fantastic videos. I have 2 questions if you have time to answer. When I press one sample and press another pad the previous one stops and the one I pressed goes how do I fix that ? Also when I play a sample for example a kick drum, at the end of the sample you can hear it click and start again but the loop should be continuous what am I doing wrong ? I’d really love your help thanks in advance
In the clip program editor, got to the tab labelled PAD and near the bottom middle of the screen you'll see MUTE GROUP. Make sure that is set to OFF or set to another mute group other than the one set for the other pad. Otherwise they will 'choke' one another. Regarding the kick drum, the only reason it wont be looping is if you have the PAD PLAY mode set to ONE SHOT. For it to lop it needs to be set to TOGGLE.
Clips always have to start at the beginning of the loop sample or..... .? If I trigger a loop click it again to stop it, is there a way to trigger it again but it will play wherever the play head is?
They launch depending on the launch quantisation value you set and when you trigger the pad in relation to the play head. I find them incredibly clunky and uninspiring to use myself, and avoid them altogether.
@@TUBEDIGGA wow this hurts my feelings. The sample won't continously play? If my sample is the alphabet and I trigger it and it starts at "A" and I click the pad to mute it/stop" I can't retriever it if I know when "J" comes in? It'll just start again at "A?"
@@chrischris05 It shouldn’t hurt your feelings, it’s just a sampler! They continuously play now, they fixed that issue a while back. I still won’t use them however. This is an old video
Aaron Garcia Those breaks were simple one or two bar loops that aren’t complex arrangements just for the sake of demonstration. If you search ‘breaks’ on my channel you’ll see several tutorials pertaining to chopping and processing breaks. As soon as I get another MPC I’ll be doing more.
Can I schedule a 1-2 hour tutorial via Facetime, Turbo Meeting, or any platform where you can walk me thru midi setups? I want my Behringer X-Touch to control my MPC X in mixer mode. Also, I need to learn more shortcuts. The X is a spectacular machine. I started on the 60 & 60MkII. I still own a 3000 and I'm just getting comfortable with track writing in a DAW.
I don’t have the DJS anymore. They are very different machines and not exactly comparable. The DJS is very well built and handles low end frequencies very well. It’s simple and quick and fun to use. It’s data management needs refining and could do with some extras like chaining sequences or some way to extend them. It also only has two stereo outs, (1 main and 1 aux).Overall it’s a very good machine though. It’s best feature over the Live and X is its ability to infinitely loop samples which is great for drones. The MPC Live is not built as well but is functionally much deeper. It has 3 stereo outputs and many sub levels of mixing. The sequencer is the most advanced full stop in my opinion. It caters for any type of workflow you wish to develop/run with. The X is the same in terms of firmware but physically it’s far superior and very nice to use. It even sounds louder/fuller than the Live. If you can afford the X and don’t care about the portability of the Live then it’s an easy decision.
I am comming back to this video since it's about clip programs. I notice that the MPC LIVE has bugs. I worked on a clip program edited nicley so the length are not longer than my 16 bars und suddently the volume is OFF from all the 32 + clips. The pads are flashing as they do but no volume, I can play them in sample edit, if I create a new clip doesn't work. Drum program works too, but I used clips to loop them. You've been using MPC for so long, did you ever came across my issue?!
Hey TUBE DIGGA whats up wanted ask if there's a way to audition different sampled drums while i have a beat playing the way i can in abelton or maschine
Is it possible to have clips of different tempo loaded into the same clip track that play in loop with their original bpm. For instance, in a live performance song 1 occupies a01-a08 , song 2 a09- a16 and so on?
If your clips are warped then they'll all adhere to the sequence tempo, if they're not warped then they play/loop at their own individual tempos. Sequences/songs can all have individual tempos
What’s the difference between clips and the other programs. How do I get samples into clips. Are they all samples or can a kit be a clip. You didn’t mention anything about what they actually are and how to set them.
A clip program is basic in comparison to a drum program but has different features for warping/syncing samples. So the clips themselves are just samples like any other audio file but they are handled differently in a clip program. I never use them because they don’t work very well in my opinion, for example they often make samples sound unnatural and glitchy and the way they launch separately from the main sequencer is kind of off putting. It’s a shame as they could be very useful but I just don’t think they are that well implemented.
great video man!!, all explained clear!!.... i have a question, does this samples obey to the tap bpm button???... i want to play backing tracks in a band... but sometimes for the party mood we play the songs, 3 or 4 bpm more than the original sequence.... so, can i play this clips faster with this tap tempo buton without affecting the pitch??
MYCSLSA Yes, but you’ll notice artefact s the further away you go from the sample’s original bpm and for me personally, the sound quality is poor. It’s one of the only areas of the mpc that I am not a big fan of.
@@TUBEDIGGA Thanks for the reply.... But i mean, i won't be changing from 100 bpm to 140 or 160 bpm... just 4 or 5 more bpm do you think i will lose a lot o sound quality??
MYCSLSA That’s probably ok, anything over 5/6 bpm can sound wonky (mostly rhythmic sounds, break beats/drum loops but it very much depends on the content/particular sample. Check out my ‘Acapela to Audio Tracks’ video - I speed a Busta Rhymes acapella up almost 40 bpm and it still sounds usable, so some material works better than others.
Once you import all your samples to your clip program list - how do you save that so when you power it back on everything is rdy on the pads to play/trigger live>?
Corey S. Sexton (History Channel - Ultimate Soldier Challenge: Episode VI) Either save the clip program from the program edit menu (pencil icon bottom right of main page) or save the project.
how quick can you change clip banks and can you do it while the sequencer is running, and lastly can you mute clips (say i just wanted a kick to sound at beginning of sample loop) ? Great channel by the way, its helping me decide weather or not to buy the MPC x
Not sure what you mean exactly. Midi and CV are two entirely separate protocols and clips are for triggering audio loops. CV is a control voltage signal for controlling eurorack / modular synths.
zerstortezelle No, it’s one clip/sample per pad, unlike drum programs where you can trigger up to four layers per pad or 4 additional pads from one pad using ‘simultaneous’ mode.
thanks for the video. timestretch sounds awful to my ears (at least with my clips) i want to repitch them, but thats only possible if i set manually the semi and fine until the loop fits perfectly?
Currently I wouldn't warp any clips as it sounds bad - my best advice for clip programs is to pre-prepare your loops/clips so they don't need to be warped. My workflow is bring in your samples, chop them, reconstruct them, and bounce them as samples at the tempo you want to use for your clips.
Thanks for these videos. I don't own the MPC Live yet but I'm looking into it to replace the laptop and ableton for live performances. I've also never owned or used any MPC, so forgive me for the noob question. I'm wondering if it's possible to program BPM changes within a clip program. Like if I planned to use each bank of 16 pads for a different song and each song was a different tempo, is it possible to assign a BPM to a clip or to a bank? Or is BPM only assignable per sequence?
@@TUBEDIGGA thanks man that’s it! I find all the pad/Qlink pages confusing! Separate question: I have template sequences of CV click and reset gates for different time signatures, and can switch seamlessly between sequences within a correct measure context. It’s taken years to program that information for 100% success, and CV signals are very specifically shifted and offset for reset purposes Can you think of a neater way to do this for saving and deployment within new tracks?
@@syntholabo I can’t think of another way off the top of my head and would need to see your set up to fully understand what you want to achieve. You’re welcome to book a lesson with me but if it were me I probably do the same. A reset trig at the start of the sequence out from one cv port and the clock from another. Not sure how else you could do it in a more efficient or effective way.
@@TUBEDIGGA thanks again- I’ll look at your fee schedule ;) The tricky thing is to offset the reset gates by a few PPQs, which means there isn’t one on the first beat of the song, and then the last gate of the bar is actually the offset beat from the next 1 It works if I pulse a first reset in manually before pressing play-from-start. And you must divide a bar into a perfect four per time signature so that the modular clock dividers keep spitting out even divisions into infinity It’s taken a while to figure out
Yes, even though I don’t use or endorse clips myself (I think they are poorly implemented), they work better than they did when I made this video. They no longer stop when switching to another track which I think was a bug a few years ago.
@@TUBEDIGGA Ah right nice to know. I haven't really played about with clips much. Not had me MPC long, I'm using it to sequence my synths mainly in my hardware set up. So I got to thinking on the clips to use for a but of Jungle, trigger breaks from clips and drive my basslines from midi tracks. That's my thinking anyway. Proper ace channel by the way!
Since you are an Amen- break samplist. You forgot to mention the best part of clips-mode. You can take you Amen-break in sample edit mode. Chop it up. Export the chops to a clip program - you can do this. Edit the quantize to 1/4 or more for all clips. Now for all fingerdrummers who are too drunk to get their timing right - instant gratification. This is really the best part of this machine!
Yeah I have all kinds of Amens loaded into clips, just used a fair few lately so they took a rest for this video.
I know I’m a bit late here, but can you explain this a bit more please?
Aaron Garcia Lets say you have a perfectly timed break which is 32 bars long and does different things throughout/variations in structure and rhythm. You can chop that in to 8 x 4 bar loops or 16 x 2 bar loops. Then you can use them in clip mode as they will be perfectly timed.
This is the tip I needed to bring relevence to this function.
dude, you should get payed by akai by sharing your knowledge on the mpc's. it's been a huge time saver for me to workaround the workflow of this insane machine. while my unit is on the way i've browsed many of your vid's & yeah dude, you should definitely get rewarded by akai, not by the amount of tutorials you post, but by the quality of your teaching, great work man !!! and thanks again ... (still laughing my head off with the launch of mars bar (english is not my mother tongue as you might have guessed), i had to wait for you to acknowledge that mars is chocolate to get your point ;-) how sad am i ;-)
Amon Thego Thanks again man, glad you’re enjoying the vids. Yeah the Mars Bar comment was one of those moments of madness 😂
Mate it's crazy learning these machines, I only learnt my MPC1000 properly eventually cause of covid and having the time. (having owned it for 10+ years already)
The inability to launch Mars Bars is a huge miss on Akai's part.
🤣 I read this comment and sat confused for 15 seconds then he said the line!!! Classic
lmao,
the dead pan delivery ...
Pro tip : you can watch movies on kaldroStream. Been using it for watching loads of movies these days.
@Moses Ivan Yup, have been using kaldroStream for since december myself =)
I know this video is a year old but I was just using clips and I was able to switch tracks and my clips from other tracks still played while I launched clips from different programs and different tracks.....I would have “loopmasters” on track one, and while a loop is playing, I am able to switch to another clip program and use the loops or one shots..m
I just bought your course for 249! very well done and that is the only way I can learn...I tried so many other ways Thank you !
Great, thanks for the feedback and for having faith in my work! Let me know if you have any questions and enjoy all the samples etc 👊👍
Omg addressed common issue right away it's like you're a mind read ugh love it cheers
Playing with the clip launcher. Looks like they fixed that issue of hte clips stopping when you change tracks. Yeah that didn't make sense!
Any chance of an updated video on MPC Clips? Have there been many updates to Clip Programs in the 5 years since this video?
As with a lot of MPC features, the potential and depth of Clips is huge! As you demo’d in this video, 128 slots per Program is a massive amount to work with and I can see how it’s easy to build out full sets using a Clip Program per Sequence (which will then give you tempo change capability that’s missing on the Force, for example)… really got me thinking this. 👍
I saw 176 BPM... and I knew.
golden vid.
Very helpful. Thank you
Nice viedeo's you're making. It's a pitty that you can not combine the sample clips with other track, because in live situations it would be nice
to combine them with other hardware synths or modulars via midi, but than again, you have to use other tracks and the clips cut off. A good implmentation would be midi clips, that you can combine with the sample clips. It would be very demanding in live situations I think. Maybe a good reason to mention this to Akai to implement this ? I have the MPC X myself and Novation Peak and Access Virus C.
Akai are looking at implementing streaming samples from disk (something the Octatrack does), this would solve it as clips take up a lot of RAM
Thanks, that would be a nice implmentation. Maybe for the next firmware update, lets hope
@@crappie050764 3 years later, is it possible? The force does that nicely where half of the pads are used to trigger clips and half of the pads are used to trigger "Drum Program sounds".
If you add music to any other tracks in the sequence then press play, those tracks play along as normal. If you're in the cop track you can play along with the other tracks.
This is so cool.
I assume that since there are 8 banks of 16 pads there is a total of 128 loops possible. These loops can be triggered by the pads, but can I also trigger them using MIDI from an external MIDI controller? I know this might sound crazy, but I have an idea to make use of this 😊
Thanks for the video. So this is just for launching sample clips? Would be nice if the the clip program could also launch a drum midi pattern or midi pattern for say a synth bass etc..
Yeah just for sample loops mostly, I rarely if ever use clips, I think the behaviour is clunky and the warping algorithm is poor quality
@@TUBEDIGGA At least they fixed it so they keep playing if you change tracks right?
@@jenniferw8963 Yeah but that should have been a simple inclusion from the start, I'd rather they put more time into making the clips launch properly and make the warping sound vastly better. Then I may be interested in using it. It seems very clunky and cheap in it's current state IMO.
@@TUBEDIGGA This MPC One is driving me crazy.. sometimes when I load a drum program it assigns all pads. Other times it assigns none. Such a waste of time. It should always assign the pads.
Still the same, no midi clips after 2.10...hopefully it’s coming totally stupid that I having to extra bounce plugin programs before. Why it doesn’t work like it’s assigning the samples bounce to their single pads??? This must be and also an arranger mode for audioclips and midi...really need it 😩
How to launch Mars bars? Instructions unclear!?
All I want to do is launch Mars bars! Might just be hungry...
Love this tutorial! tried to set my clip program up the same way but ran into every problem imaginable. Clips cut off suddenly. Clips play too slow or fast. I noticed you had Sequence BPM set to 175, but many of your clips did not have the same BPM, yet they play fine. When I tried to do this, everything fell apart. Do all the clips have to be the same length and BPM? What am I missing here?
Finally, do you do one-on-one sessions?
When Clips were introduced to the alpha/beta testing many years ago, I immediately wrote a bug report regarding Clips stopping after changing tracks. My bug report was rejected and I was told to write it up as a feature request.
Because of this, I just ignore Clips all together.
Yeah I don’t use them either, they are very badly implemented. The warp algorithm is terrible and messes up the start of samples and the way they trigger is quite buzzard and unpredictable.
Is there a way of a clip containing midi data only? I'm using my mpc almost entirely as a midi sequencer. It would be amazing to have a different sequence on each pad for live switching between various chunks of a song.
That is a actual great idea!
I did send a support ticket for it, i hope you did it aswell.
Great video. Cheers mate. Did firmware 2.10 fix this by any chance?
Do you mean fix the clips stopping when switching tracks? If so, yes, that was fixed quite a long time ago.
thank you x
Greetings from the future. I'm wondering if they added anything like an Ableton 'scene launch' to trigger a whole row of clips at once. Using 2.9
Did you find out if it can do this?
@@leojames7331 I'm pretty sure the only way to launch multiple clips at once is to push them at the same time with a claw-like hand
What about Lion bars?
Thank u.. brother..
This is super helpful! Is there a way so that when you hit the first pad, it cues the downbeat of the whole quantized playback? It looks like when you did your performance, the first pad waited until the loop length hit the downbeat and then started
@@thestevebrickman Yes, you can choose from several quantisation or time division values. Clips are no longer a feature in MPC 3 and personally I have never used them since making this video. I found the implementation of them very clunky and unrefined but don’t let me put you off if you’re enjoying them!
Snap to beats would be great on the live.
I am thinking that it may be possible to do some polyrythms by bouncing tracks for various lengths to samples and assembling them into clip programs. Will try that. Thx for all of those inspriring videos.
Have you tried this? I’m interested in creating polymeter drum tracks in interesting ways and haven’t messed with clip launching yet.
@@RandomAnthem541 It works for a live performance for sure.
More like clip trigger amiiiiright?
Hey man fantastic videos. I have 2 questions if you have time to answer. When I press one sample and press another pad the previous one stops and the one I pressed goes how do I fix that ? Also when I play a sample for example a kick drum, at the end of the sample you can hear it click and start again but the loop should be continuous what am I doing wrong ? I’d really love your help thanks in advance
In the clip program editor, got to the tab labelled PAD and near the bottom middle of the screen you'll see MUTE GROUP. Make sure that is set to OFF or set to another mute group other than the one set for the other pad. Otherwise they will 'choke' one another. Regarding the kick drum, the only reason it wont be looping is if you have the PAD PLAY mode set to ONE SHOT. For it to lop it needs to be set to TOGGLE.
Clips always have to start at the beginning of the loop sample or..... .? If I trigger a loop click it again to stop it, is there a way to trigger it again but it will play wherever the play head is?
They launch depending on the launch quantisation value you set and when you trigger the pad in relation to the play head. I find them incredibly clunky and uninspiring to use myself, and avoid them altogether.
@@TUBEDIGGA wow this hurts my feelings. The sample won't continously play? If my sample is the alphabet and I trigger it and it starts at "A" and I click the pad to mute it/stop" I can't retriever it if I know when "J" comes in? It'll just start again at "A?"
@@chrischris05 It shouldn’t hurt your feelings, it’s just a sampler! They continuously play now, they fixed that issue a while back. I still won’t use them however. This is an old video
@@TUBEDIGGA ok this is good news. My mpc one must be on a default setting how do I access this continuous mode?
Clip issue was fixed in 2.4 from what I've heard.
no more stopping in 2.5
Any chance of a tut on how you did your breaks? For simple loops they sound extraordinarily clean and stack good together.
Aaron Garcia Those breaks were simple one or two bar loops that aren’t complex arrangements just for the sake of demonstration. If you search ‘breaks’ on my channel you’ll see several tutorials pertaining to chopping and processing breaks. As soon as I get another MPC I’ll be doing more.
What's up man I like the video. I have a question I Cant her my love to sync to my computer to go into controller mode what can I do
Can I schedule a 1-2 hour tutorial via Facetime, Turbo Meeting, or any platform where you can walk me thru midi setups? I want my Behringer X-Touch to control my MPC X in mixer mode. Also, I need to learn more shortcuts. The X is a spectacular machine. I started on the 60 & 60MkII. I still own a 3000 and I'm just getting comfortable with track writing in a DAW.
Ced Finley Sure, my email address is above in the description, please contact me there
Tube Digga Can you do a comparison of the Akai Mpc to the Pioneer DJS 1000
I don’t have the DJS anymore. They are very different machines and not exactly comparable. The DJS is very well built and handles low end frequencies very well. It’s simple and quick and fun to use. It’s data management needs refining and could do with some extras like chaining sequences or some way to extend them. It also only has two stereo outs, (1 main and 1 aux).Overall it’s a very good machine though. It’s best feature over the Live and X is its ability to infinitely loop samples which is great for drones. The MPC Live is not built as well but is functionally much deeper. It has 3 stereo outputs and many sub levels of mixing. The sequencer is the most advanced full stop in my opinion. It caters for any type of workflow you wish to develop/run with. The X is the same in terms of firmware but physically it’s far superior and very nice to use. It even sounds louder/fuller than the Live. If you can afford the X and don’t care about the portability of the Live then it’s an easy decision.
TUBE DIGGA Thanks I am thinking of buying the Mpc X.
I am comming back to this video since it's about clip programs. I notice that the MPC LIVE has bugs. I worked on a clip program edited nicley so the length are not longer than my 16 bars und suddently the volume is OFF from all the 32 + clips. The pads are flashing as they do but no volume, I can play them in sample edit, if I create a new clip doesn't work. Drum program works too, but I used clips to loop them. You've been using MPC for so long, did you ever came across my issue?!
Tube Digga have you thought of exporting a song track by track as to line them up in your favorite DAW- what would be your recommendations - thank you
Hey TUBE DIGGA whats up wanted ask if there's a way to audition different sampled drums while i have a beat playing the way i can in abelton or maschine
philtyrich1 Sure, you can audition samples in your directories before loading them whilst the sequencer is playing
ok cool thanks gonna check it out now
Is it possible to trigger clip from an external midi instrument ?
Is it possible to have clips of different tempo loaded into the same clip track that play in loop with their original bpm. For instance, in a live performance song 1 occupies a01-a08 , song 2 a09- a16 and so on?
If your clips are warped then they'll all adhere to the sequence tempo, if they're not warped then they play/loop at their own individual tempos. Sequences/songs can all have individual tempos
Hey
Tubedigga, they ever get this any better with later MPC 2 version releases?
Not as far as I can tell, it still is my least favourite feature in the MPC
What’s the difference between clips and the other programs. How do I get samples into clips. Are they all samples or can a kit be a clip. You didn’t mention anything about what they actually are and how to set them.
A clip program is basic in comparison to a drum program but has different features for warping/syncing samples. So the clips themselves are just samples like any other audio file but they are handled differently in a clip program. I never use them because they don’t work very well in my opinion, for example they often make samples sound unnatural and glitchy and the way they launch separately from the main sequencer is kind of off putting. It’s a shame as they could be very useful but I just don’t think they are that well implemented.
Milky Ways?
great video man!!, all explained clear!!.... i have a question, does this samples obey to the tap bpm button???... i want to play backing tracks in a band... but sometimes for the party mood we play the songs, 3 or 4 bpm more than the original sequence.... so, can i play this clips faster with this tap tempo buton without affecting the pitch??
MYCSLSA Yes, but you’ll notice artefact s the further away you go from the sample’s original bpm and for me personally, the sound quality is poor. It’s one of the only areas of the mpc that I am not a big fan of.
@@TUBEDIGGA Thanks for the reply.... But i mean, i won't be changing from 100 bpm to 140 or 160 bpm... just 4 or 5 more bpm do you think i will lose a lot o sound quality??
MYCSLSA That’s probably ok, anything over 5/6 bpm can sound wonky (mostly rhythmic sounds, break beats/drum loops but it very much depends on the content/particular sample. Check out my ‘Acapela to Audio Tracks’ video - I speed a Busta Rhymes acapella up almost 40 bpm and it still sounds usable, so some material works better than others.
Once you import all your samples to your clip program list - how do you save that so when you power it back on everything is rdy on the pads to play/trigger live>?
Corey S. Sexton (History Channel - Ultimate Soldier Challenge: Episode VI) Either save the clip program from the program edit menu (pencil icon bottom right of main page) or save the project.
how quick can you change clip banks and can you do it while the sequencer is running, and lastly can you mute clips (say i just wanted a kick to sound at beginning of sample loop) ?
Great channel by the way, its helping me decide weather or not to buy the MPC x
Yes you can switch banks whilst the sequence is playing simply by pressing the desired pad bank button. For muting you can you the PAD MUTE function.
Awesomeness, many many thanks for taking the time to reply.
Thank you very much, will check out your Patreaon and other videos. Hope you can quit you other JOB.
@@TUBEDIGGA I booked a lesson instead, was helpful thanks!
Can you send a midi sequence by CV as one of the clips / columns?
Not sure what you mean exactly. Midi and CV are two entirely separate protocols and clips are for triggering audio loops. CV is a control voltage signal for controlling eurorack / modular synths.
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I’d like you to live there too.
Is it possible to launch multiple clips from one pad? can't figure it out.
zerstortezelle No, it’s one clip/sample per pad, unlike drum programs where you can trigger up to four layers per pad or 4 additional pads from one pad using ‘simultaneous’ mode.
@tubedigga Thanks for that. I didn’t think it was possible. Just wanted to double confirm. Thanks for the input and great videos!
thanks for the video. timestretch sounds awful to my ears (at least with my clips) i want to repitch them, but thats only possible if i set manually the semi and fine until the loop fits perfectly?
Currently I wouldn't warp any clips as it sounds bad - my best advice for clip programs is to pre-prepare your loops/clips so they don't need to be warped. My workflow is bring in your samples, chop them, reconstruct them, and bounce them as samples at the tempo you want to use for your clips.
Thanks for these videos. I don't own the MPC Live yet but I'm looking into it to replace the laptop and ableton for live performances. I've also never owned or used any MPC, so forgive me for the noob question. I'm wondering if it's possible to program BPM changes within a clip program. Like if I planned to use each bank of 16 pads for a different song and each song was a different tempo, is it possible to assign a BPM to a clip or to a bank? Or is BPM only assignable per sequence?
Hi, yes, as you said, BPM is only assignable per sequence
Where can you mix & balance your clips? It’s mad that it doesn’t seem possible
In the pad mixer
@@TUBEDIGGA thanks man that’s it! I find all the pad/Qlink pages confusing!
Separate question:
I have template sequences of CV click and reset gates for different time signatures, and can switch seamlessly between sequences within a correct measure context. It’s taken years to program that information for 100% success, and CV signals are very specifically shifted and offset for reset purposes
Can you think of a neater way to do this for saving and deployment within new tracks?
@@syntholabo I can’t think of another way off the top of my head and would need to see your set up to fully understand what you want to achieve.
You’re welcome to book a lesson with me but if it were me I probably do the same. A reset trig at the start of the sequence out from one cv port and the clock from another. Not sure how else you could do it in a more efficient or effective way.
@@TUBEDIGGA thanks again- I’ll look at your fee schedule ;)
The tricky thing is to offset the reset gates by a few PPQs, which means there isn’t one on the first beat of the song, and then the last gate of the bar is actually the offset beat from the next 1
It works if I pulse a first reset in manually before pressing play-from-start.
And you must divide a bar into a perfect four per time signature so that the modular clock dividers keep spitting out even divisions into infinity
It’s taken a while to figure out
Can you set a midi track going then jump in on your clips?
Yes, even though I don’t use or endorse clips myself (I think they are poorly implemented), they work better than they did when I made this video. They no longer stop when switching to another track which I think was a bug a few years ago.
@@TUBEDIGGA Ah right nice to know.
I haven't really played about with clips much. Not had me MPC long, I'm using it to sequence my synths mainly in my hardware set up.
So I got to thinking on the clips to use for a but of Jungle, trigger breaks from clips and drive my basslines from midi tracks.
That's my thinking anyway.
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Buying a so expensive machine to discover that I cannot use clip programs with drums and keygroup?
It doesn't make sense to me at all.
Fabrizio Frisan kind of pissed me off too