Any MPC one + users ?

[SumOne]

Anyone else use their MPC as a Bass multi-fx? 

 

I've gone on about this before and but as far as I can tell it isn't something people really do - I'm not sure why though, it seems a pretty good multi-fx to me. 

 

Plug in, set the it as an 'audio' track, set input to mono, record 'arm' to monitor live... And off you go, can use as tuner, effects (most have more parameters to adjust than your average multi-fx), it has bass amps, all sorts. No noticeable latency. 

 

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by SumOne

[BigRedX]

How easy is it to change sounds using this method?

 

Any glitches if you were to change as you are playing?

[SumOne]

11 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

How easy is it to change sounds using this method?

 

Any glitches if you were to change as you are playing?

 

It's not easy enough to change whole projects quickly/seamlessly for live use in mid-song, that is a downside. There are workarounds. i.e. could save several Bass 'tracks' within one project,  then set the drumpad to mute/solo the tracks.

 

Time spent changing between projects is one downside of the MPC in general: Changing from one project to the next requires: 'menu > new project> 'do you want to save changes to previous preset'? (if you've changed stuff) y/n > (wait about 3 seconds) > 'select project' screen opens (you can organise it in a user list)> click project and wait about 3 seconds for new one to load. So changing project is do-able between songs, but not during a song. It's a shame as it means using it live for a DJ type tool of seamless mixes between songs needs some workarounds, perhaps this is something the new software is dealing with - I'm yet to fully get into it though.

 

 

[Woodinblack]

I haven't used it as an effect but I have recorded the bass with it and then added the effects. Mine is for use live for complex samples and sounds - I have an MPX that can play samples, but it is litterally just a sample playback tool, and when I wanted to play the same sound but longer or shorter or with a different velocity (ie, keyboard stuff), i went for the MPC, especially with the multisampling where you can have the same sample at different velocities, so on the MPX you can play back the same sample at a lower volume when you hit the pad softer, but on the MPC you can play a different softer hit sample and it makes quite a difference. And the MPC can play back sequences on a pad too

[BigRedX]

36 minutes ago, SumOne said:

It's not easy enough to change whole projects quickly/seamlessly for live use in mid-song, that is a downside. There are workarounds. i.e. could save several Bass 'tracks' within one project,  then set the drumpad to mute/solo the tracks.

 

Could that be done using MIDI program changes or controlled via running the project itself?

 

37 minutes ago, SumOne said:

Time spent changing between projects is one downside of the MPC in general: Changing from one project to the next requires: 'menu > new project> 'do you want to save changes to previous preset'? (if you've changed stuff) y/n > (wait about 3 seconds) > 'select project' screen opens (you can organise it in a user list)> click project and wait about 3 seconds for new one to load. So changing project is do-able between songs, but not during a song. It's a shame as it means using it live for a DJ type tool of seamless mixes between songs needs some workarounds, perhaps this is something the new software is dealing with - I'm yet to fully get into it though.

 

This seems to be a problem for almost all hardware solutions that I might want to use in a live situation. So far I've not come across anything that does the job as painlessly or quickly as a Mac running Logic and Keyboard Maestro. I have an AirTurn with two footswitches, one which starts/pauses Logic and the other which runs a Keyboard Maestro macro which closes the current Logic project switches to the Finder scrolls down one file and opens that. This process takes less than 5 seconds even on an ancient 2012 MacBook Pro. All I have to do is add a number to beginning of each Logic file in order I want to have the songs in the set and I'm ready to go.

[SumOne]

14 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

Could that be done using MIDI program changes or controlled via running the project itself?

 

 

 

 

I expect so, although I've only used an Akai MIDI Mix with an MPC to basically add volume sliders to each track and for the knobs to control a couple of parameters for each track (that's quite good for stuff like live dub mixing - fading in different tracks and turning the knobs to do stuff like increase reverb). The 'Learn' MIDI feature does all the usual things like toggle and momentary so I expect it could turn on/off tracks or groups of tracks.

 

https://support.akaipro.com/en/support/solutions/articles/69000858922-mpc-series-how-to-send-program-changes-with-a-midi-controller

 

[Woodinblack]

2 hours ago, BigRedX said:

 

Could that be done using MIDI program changes or controlled via running the project itself?

 

Yes