this is wild!!!...I’ve never used my MPC like this...I like it...I usually have the drumbeat going, and playing samples to that, not having samples trigger with the kicks and snares like you’re doing...very cool
Some additional ideas: you don't have to necessarily have a musical sample or chop on every pad - sometime it's nice to skip a pad to add a random silent section. Or you could also remove the mute group for one of the pads that doesn't have a musical sample on it, so you get a longer tail from the previous pad and it only gets choked with the next pad that's in the same mute group. And of course you don't have to go from pad one up to 16 as I do in this video - you can pretty much remix the 'loop' by triggering the pads in a more random fashion.
Thank you for this video. I’m 49 and just getting back in to music. I bought the mpc live and getting to distract with time stretching and bpm. This will help me to just get started.
This is an interesting way to work with sample-chops. It’s actually like re-sequencing and layering sounds to make original patterns and at the same time having already made sounds and melodies to match. I’m gonna give it a try :)
Hey, Tubedigga? what was the sample with all of the rhodes keys playing, or who was the musician? i heard you attempt to tell us, but you didn't spell out either his name or album (which would have been preferable to you trying to pronounce it). i wanna listen to that and add it my music collection. excellent educational video, btw. thank you😄
Make sure you clear them samples! My friend just got a cease and desist letter in the mail from a record label for not clearing his samples! I always thought so long as you pitch it down and make the sample unrecognizable that you wouldn't have to worry about shit like that, but damn was I wrong! You legit couldn't even tell he was using samples and would NEVER KNOW what song he used in his samples and yet they still got him hemmed up! He had to remove his songs off RUclips and contact the artists that purchased the beat from him and the whole 9 yards! Apparently AI is able to detect even 1 second samples that have been heavily altered! I just don't understand why we even have the ability to easily sample or why we even have hardware like the MPC when sampling is so damn illegal! It's straight up bullshit!
BANG BANG TUTORIAL AS ALWAYS...but does one mix the volume of the samples to each other inside the program editor, ie the kick and snare are low or loud compared to the sample...Gonna keep investigating, I'll check back if I figure it out first! Thank ya much much again!
Very helpful as my samples are usually long....lazy recording of jams on eurorack etc...and this method will help make something out of them (i hope). ty
Am i missing something here? Followed every step of the tutorial but when I then move the starting point of the music sample on one pad it does it to the rest of the pads...Help highly appreciated
Techno AG In the program editor, where you load the sample to the first layer of a pad, the pad behaviour needs to be set to PAD so the parameters are per pad. You probably have yours set to ALL.
@@TUBEDIGGA I just spent an hour trying to figure this out and this comment helped a ton. If anyone wants to do this in the MPC software, do the following: 1. Press "Sample Edit" on your MPC 2. In the software, select the "Program" tab (the other two tabs are Trim & Chop) 3. In the software, where it says "Slice", press the "To Pad" button or change from "All" to "Pad"
Say I chop a drum loop. And there is only one slice from the chop that I want to keep. Can I save the one slice to the SD card, and delete the rest of the slices?
This is an intriguing workflow that I've never really seen before. I'd be inclined to remove the kick and snare when you've done that and redo them on separate pads. Good work though.
David L No that would be counterintuitive. Copying pads has barely any affect on CPU and the samples are just references of one sample. Converting the sample to mono will help with RAM but be aware that if your main large sample is consuming nearly all your RAM, the system will give you a warning that there is no RAM available to create a copy. You could also quickly go through the entire sample in the sample editor and delete any sections that you don’t like, this might take a little bit of time but will reduce the RAM.
@@TUBEDIGGA thanks....guess I should have said RAM...just did not see a need to chop audio that is identical on two channels (stereo), figured converting to Mono would also free up space as well as RAM. My Bass and Drums are always riding the center channel (Mono) hence, as you suggest, I go thru the entire sample and select Mono chops that ride with the center energy and Stereo chops that ride the Sides and widen the Stero field. Thanks again for that Fantastic SP1200 emulation tutorial. SALUTE!
Great video. I have question? Let say I slice a sample into 16 parts. Can further edit each individual slices like in the old mpc's. If so how do you do that?
Go to the program editor for the program your slices are assigned to and there you have access to envelopes, filters, effects and much more per pad. If you want to destructively edit the actual specific slice I recommend you use the flatten pad feature - the downwards arrow at the top of thew screen in program edit - this will create a new sample with any parameter adjustments. You can then go to the sample edit mode and you can process that sample with several process functions or continue to edit the parameters in the program editor and flatten again (rinse and repeat).
Open up some new creative avenues which is what it's really all about, really fun and intuitive thank you sir, liked and subscribed, look forward to more!
Have you done a video on how to DJ with the MPC? I would think it might be possible to load a bunch of finished tracks of similar tempos onto pads. Then put one trigger note (per song) at the beginning of each sequence. Set each sequence to the length of the song it contains. Then when youre ready to blend in a new song you trigger the next sequence. Does that sound like the best way? Or get a looping foot pedal and create a loop to bridge between projects?
Mr. Mizu Yes a looper or any other audio playback device could work for transitions. I have done a video about DJing with the MPC: ruclips.net/video/C56WC6wgjhg/видео.html
Question: After you’ve placed the full sample on all of the pads, how do you prevent triggering the full sample every time you hit the pads after that? I noticed after you hit a pad, you pressed the stop button on your X, so the sample wouldn’t play out, but when I press stop on my Live, it doesn’t stop the sample from playing. Which means every time I hit any of the pads I have to listen through the entire long sample. Any advice would be appreciated.
In the sample editor, go to the 5th page labelled LFO/MODULATION and you’ll see a parameter called SAMPLE PLAY and choose it to be NOTE ON. Note on means the sample will play for as long as you press the pad or for as long as the note for that pad lasts in the sequence. It also allows you to loop a pad.
@@F_letc.h One thing I would add is that double pressing the stop button fully stops all sounds being played, including the full length of a sample and its tail
Hi Tubedigga first of all I just wanna say I love ur vids and they have helped me so much and we're the reason I bought an mpc live in the 1st place, I have an issue tho, I'm on firmware 2.5 and in standalone mode but I'm unable to bounce any track/program to sample or audio track, is this an issue with 2.5 or am I missing something, I didn't really wanna bother you as I know you're a busy guy but this is driving me crazy and none of the akai forums have a reason why this is happening or a solution so I wondered if maybe you could shed any light on what I need to do to fix it, any thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated, peace out.
This occasionally happens when bouncing a track but what you’re describing sounds like a different issue. Feel free to email me at tubedigga@gmail.com if you’d like to book a 1 to 1 Skype session and I can take a better look.
@@TUBEDIGGA I have fixed the problem 😊, I realised that my internal memory was full so I just copied all projects and samples from internal memory onto sd card and cleared the internal memory and voila it now works fine, can't believe how dumb I was lol, thankyou so much for replying to me though I appreciate it, keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more content from you 👍
This is the MPC in 2020. It's like a new girlfriend trying to take over your relationship. She's even hotter with the wooden sides. Big up TubeDigga man!
this is wild!!!...I’ve never used my MPC like this...I like it...I usually have the drumbeat going, and playing samples to that, not having samples trigger with the kicks and snares like you’re doing...very cool
You're a menace with the sample chops (compliment). You're really just taking whatever stabs and making it work... I have a lot to learn from you.
Some additional ideas: you don't have to necessarily have a musical sample or chop on every pad - sometime it's nice to skip a pad to add a random silent section. Or you could also remove the mute group for one of the pads that doesn't have a musical sample on it, so you get a longer tail from the previous pad and it only gets choked with the next pad that's in the same mute group. And of course you don't have to go from pad one up to 16 as I do in this video - you can pretty much remix the 'loop' by triggering the pads in a more random fashion.
Thank you for this video. I’m 49 and just getting back in to music. I bought the mpc live and getting to distract with time stretching and bpm. This will help me to just get started.
You’re not alone!
Happy I came across this video.
The MPC. Quite something. I am discovering new ways to use it every week.
On the MPC Live 2, The mute group option is in MASTER Tab. There is not LFO MODULATION tab in MPC live. Took me a minute!
Mute groups were previously on the LFO MODULATION page but they moved to the MASTER page in MPC 2.10
What's the primary differences between editing slices in PROGRAM EDIT - SAMPLES vs editing slices in the SAMPLE EDIT window?
This going to be my new workflow to master.
Thank you Tube Digga! What a great lesson and Birthday gift (same day)...haha. Much success brother. I'll be staying tuned for sure.
bruhh this is genius!!!!!
This is an interesting way to work with sample-chops. It’s actually like re-sequencing and layering sounds to make original patterns and at the same time having already made sounds and melodies to match. I’m gonna give it a try :)
thank you brother
8k views! keep em coming
Hey, Tubedigga? what was the sample with all of the rhodes keys playing, or who was the musician? i heard you attempt to tell us, but you didn't spell out either his name or album (which would have been preferable to you trying to pronounce it). i wanna listen to that and add it my music collection. excellent educational video, btw. thank you😄
nice tip - would never have thought of doing this !
@Tubedigga - Is this possible to do on the FORCE ? I tried but cant quite get it . Can you give some insight?
cheers mate you just took my hip hop production to another level
Make sure you clear them samples! My friend just got a cease and desist letter in the mail from a record label for not clearing his samples!
I always thought so long as you pitch it down and make the sample unrecognizable that you wouldn't have to worry about shit like that, but
damn was I wrong! You legit couldn't even tell he was using samples and would NEVER KNOW what song he used in his samples and yet
they still got him hemmed up! He had to remove his songs off RUclips and contact the artists that purchased the beat from him and the
whole 9 yards! Apparently AI is able to detect even 1 second samples that have been heavily altered! I just don't understand why we even
have the ability to easily sample or why we even have hardware like the MPC when sampling is so damn illegal! It's straight up bullshit!
How do you go about mixing the kick and snare if they are in the sample
Loving this idea. Great workflow that I think I'll be playing with all weekend :-) Thanks man.
BANG BANG TUTORIAL AS ALWAYS...but does one mix the volume of the samples to each other inside the program editor, ie the kick and snare are low or loud compared to the sample...Gonna keep investigating, I'll check back if I figure it out first! Thank ya much much again!
Very helpful as my samples are usually long....lazy recording of jams on eurorack etc...and this method will help make something out of them (i hope). ty
Class!
Am i missing something here? Followed every step of the tutorial but when I then move the starting point of the music sample on one pad it does it to the rest of the pads...Help highly appreciated
Techno AG In the program editor, where you load the sample to the first layer of a pad, the pad behaviour needs to be set to PAD so the parameters are per pad. You probably have yours set to ALL.
TUBE DIGGA that’s it, the Prof knows it all. Thank you so much for your vids
@@TUBEDIGGA I just spent an hour trying to figure this out and this comment helped a ton. If anyone wants to do this in the MPC software, do the following:
1. Press "Sample Edit" on your MPC
2. In the software, select the "Program" tab (the other two tabs are Trim & Chop)
3. In the software, where it says "Slice", press the "To Pad" button or change from "All" to "Pad"
I love this workflow.
Say I chop a drum loop. And there is only one slice from the chop that I want to keep. Can I save the one slice to the SD card, and delete the rest of the slices?
Yes
Amazing technique here. Thank you so much for sharing!
ohhh this is so awesome, using it as soon as i get back to my live, thanks mate!
When I press and hold menu and press pad 14 my MPC X doesn’t go to program editor
Are you on the latest firmware? That's the most obvious place to start, the pad shortcut functionality came with MPC 2.4 and we are on 2.5 now.
Yeah ur right I haven’t updated since I got my equipment I’ll send u some pay pal man ur tutorials are the best thing since sliced bread
@@millzwave2531 Nice one man appreciate that loads :)
Holy shit!😳
Interesting information gr8 video thanks for sharing
This is an intriguing workflow that I've never really seen before. I'd be inclined to remove the kick and snare when you've done that and redo them on separate pads. Good work though.
best workflow ever seen
Wow. Brilliant!
Great Tutorial....to cut down on CPU and storage, do you believe it may be best to convert the sample to mono first b4 copying to multiple pads?
David L No that would be counterintuitive. Copying pads has barely any affect on CPU and the samples are just references of one sample. Converting the sample to mono will help with RAM but be aware that if your main large sample is consuming nearly all your RAM, the system will give you a warning that there is no RAM available to create a copy. You could also quickly go through the entire sample in the sample editor and delete any sections that you don’t like, this might take a little bit of time but will reduce the RAM.
@@TUBEDIGGA thanks....guess I should have said RAM...just did not see a need to chop audio that is identical on two channels (stereo), figured converting to Mono would also free up space as well as RAM. My Bass and Drums are always riding the center channel (Mono) hence, as you suggest, I go thru the entire sample and select Mono chops that ride with the center energy and Stereo chops that ride the Sides and widen the Stero field. Thanks again for that Fantastic SP1200 emulation tutorial. SALUTE!
Great tips/ trick tutorial.
Cheers TD 👍
Great video. I have question? Let say I slice a sample into 16 parts. Can further edit each individual slices like in the old mpc's. If so how do you do that?
Go to the program editor for the program your slices are assigned to and there you have access to envelopes, filters, effects and much more per pad. If you want to destructively edit the actual specific slice I recommend you use the flatten pad feature - the downwards arrow at the top of thew screen in program edit - this will create a new sample with any parameter adjustments. You can then go to the sample edit mode and you can process that sample with several process functions or continue to edit the parameters in the program editor and flatten again (rinse and repeat).
@@TUBEDIGGA Thank you for responding. This will help me greatly
Neat, I never would've thought of this but I'm gonna try it.
Great workflow tip fella👍 kudos..
Open up some new creative avenues which is what it's really all about, really fun and intuitive thank you sir, liked and subscribed, look forward to more!
very useful , thank you
Have you done a video on how to DJ with the MPC? I would think it might be possible to load a bunch of finished tracks of similar tempos onto pads. Then put one trigger note (per song) at the beginning of each sequence. Set each sequence to the length of the song it contains. Then when youre ready to blend in a new song you trigger the next sequence. Does that sound like the best way? Or get a looping foot pedal and create a loop to bridge between projects?
Mr. Mizu Yes a looper or any other audio playback device could work for transitions. I have done a video about DJing with the MPC: ruclips.net/video/C56WC6wgjhg/видео.html
Thanks great video, really informative and useful to know.
Question: After you’ve placed the full sample on all of the pads, how do you prevent triggering the full sample every time you hit the pads after that? I noticed after you hit a pad, you pressed the stop button on your X, so the sample wouldn’t play out, but when I press stop on my Live, it doesn’t stop the sample from playing. Which means every time I hit any of the pads I have to listen through the entire long sample. Any advice would be appreciated.
In the sample editor, go to the 5th page labelled LFO/MODULATION and you’ll see a parameter called SAMPLE PLAY and choose it to be NOTE ON. Note on means the sample will play for as long as you press the pad or for as long as the note for that pad lasts in the sequence. It also allows you to loop a pad.
@@TUBEDIGGA Perfect. Thanks! Would love to know any other unique sampling techniques you might have. This one is a gem. One of the best I’ve seen
@@F_letc.h One thing I would add is that double pressing the stop button fully stops all sounds being played, including the full length of a sample and its tail
Very informative video it helped out alot
Do you offer any private classes on the Ren?
Joshua Munoz It Email me at tubedigga@gmail.com and we can discuss 👍
AWESOME
Why does this one look different? thanks
Scott Gallacher Why does what look different?
@@TUBEDIGGA Sorry i just mean your MPC X, arent they usually red and have different types of knobs etc? have you modified it to look that way?
Scott Gallacher Yes, wood side panels and chrome billet knobs: ruclips.net/video/wDP2L4287J4/видео.html
Love it, thanks!
Yesss great idea!!
棒极了, 谢谢. 学习了.
That’s sum new shit!!! Thx
Thanx maan...u make it e a s y ...!
Hi Tubedigga first of all I just wanna say I love ur vids and they have helped me so much and we're the reason I bought an mpc live in the 1st place, I have an issue tho, I'm on firmware 2.5 and in standalone mode but I'm unable to bounce any track/program to sample or audio track, is this an issue with 2.5 or am I missing something, I didn't really wanna bother you as I know you're a busy guy but this is driving me crazy and none of the akai forums have a reason why this is happening or a solution so I wondered if maybe you could shed any light on what I need to do to fix it, any thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated, peace out.
This occasionally happens when bouncing a track but what you’re describing sounds like a different issue. Feel free to email me at tubedigga@gmail.com if you’d like to book a 1 to 1 Skype session and I can take a better look.
@@TUBEDIGGA I have fixed the problem 😊, I realised that my internal memory was full so I just copied all projects and samples from internal memory onto sd card and cleared the internal memory and voila it now works fine, can't believe how dumb I was lol, thankyou so much for replying to me though I appreciate it, keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more content from you 👍
Blessed
Great video....
Fantastic.
Thankyou :)
And am coming back!
awesome
wooden side panels. Nice.
Noticed right away myself and thinking this has to happen with mine. Definitely classy for sure! ✌🧡👍
LEYKIS 101!
This is the MPC in 2020. It's like a new girlfriend trying to take over your relationship. She's even hotter with the wooden sides. Big up TubeDigga man!
nice trick
That’s hard
Too advance for me