Want more MPC Pad Perform presets? Consider visiting my Patreon page. Even if you have no intention of becoming a Patron, you will find some very cool free chord presets (yes, including MIDI) that are unavailable anywhere else. However, by becoming a Patron, you will open a portal to a never-ending stream of chord progressions. www.patreon.com/musicianparadise
The tip for using the sustain pedal and MIDI keyboard is out of this world! Gives the MPC so much more realism when creating chord progressions along with other melodic phrases on top. I first saw a video by Musician Paradise using Ripchord and since then, I have not looked back. All of Musician Paradise videos are Top of the line. You feel as though no time is wasted and all this knowledge is gained! Thank you Musician Paradise.
You are without a doubt the best in what you're doing with your channel bro... by a landslide💯 I sit up till early hours in the morning with your progressions... it changed the game completely for me... without it I would use MPC Beats for percussion and sample only... it opened up a whole new world.... thanks again bro.. you're second to none..
Great Video! I learned quite some things! But what I dont get about the MPC Live is why it assigns random notes in between the pads which have the chords in a custom made saved progression. For example: I make a progression with 4 chords and save it as a custom progression. When I select this progression in the notes menu it always has other notes on the pads instead of only 4 pads with 1 chord each.
Hmm, that's an interesting question! I have an idea why this might happen, but I could be wrong. Typically, I hard-quantize the chords to quarter notes before converting them to progressions, and make sure every note in the chord has the same length. After that, I select all the MIDI notes and slightly reduce their length by just a few milliseconds to avoid legato or overlapping notes. All of these steps help the MPC to cleanly convert your chords into the .progression file. You are referring to the Note Menu - are you using AKAI Force or MPC? Because usually access to the .progression files done from the progressions menu.
@@MusicianParadise Thanks for your quick answer. My Notes were all exactly the same length, so I doubt the hard quantize helps but I will try it later anyway! Maybe reducing their length slightly will do the trick, will try it. I am using MPC Live 2 and was refering to the "Notes" (16 Level) Button on the Unit itself which opens the "Pad Perform" mode, didnt describe it well in my last post.
It actually very simple - at first, I'm playing or drawing some sequence of chords and d single notes into the MPC piano rolL, then I'm using "Convert To Progression" feature so the MPC creates custom chord progression file out of my MIDI in piano roll. And, if original midi has single notes those will appears as a single notes in .progressions files! Hope this helps, thanks for watching!
Have you figured out how to use different pad perform settings for different programs or different tracks. If I have a monosynth on one track and a polysynth on another track, obviously I'd never want to use chord progression for the mono synth but I'd want to switch between the tracks with one click... right now it seems to apply the same pad perform setting to every track...
hei, thank you for a good video :D how do you turn pad perform off? I put it on and now i can not get rid of it... I can not play only one note :o it always triggers another note, impossible to turn this off, I can not use my midi program or any program anymore, please help
@@MusicianParadise thank you :D I tried this but it still is playing a note that is much higher along with my other note, this is strange.... but I will let you know if I figure this out
@@eldflaug strange! Try different modes of pad perform, try to switch banks. Perhaps you are triggering another track by midi along with the first one?
@@MusicianParadise hei thank you so much! I finally got this to work right by choosing "custom" in pad performance mode. I turned MPC on and off and then changed pad mapping just to be sure it was right, and then choose this custom settings and now finally this is working. Thank you for the help :D like you said, something strange was going on, i must have accidentally changed something more than pad performance. Im really happy that this is ow all working normally again!
Hi. First thanks for doing these. How can i rename progressions after theyve been created? I tried renaming your Jamiroquai progressions but they still come up in other folder. Thanks!
Watch this video: ua-cam.com/video/iLf1nD61tAw/v-deo.html This will work for newly created progressions. If you want to put existing progressions into the custom categories, the easiest way is to play and record each one into the piano roll and re-save it as shown in the video. Renaming the progressions files does not work. I hope one day I'll find a workaround for this.Hope this helps!
first of all, to access Pad Perform you have to be in a one of the three types of programs - Keygroup program; Plugin Program; Midi Program. From 2.8 update, pad perform have a shortcut on the main screen - switch the current track to one of the program types mentioned above and look at the low right corner of the screen - you will see a small, MPC pads like square shortcut with "pad preform" written below. Hope this helps!
If you connect MIDI keyboard to your MPC you can do that. With 2.8 OS update It also possible to play two (or more) different programs - one on pads and another on MIDI kb. You can set it up in the Preferences/MIDI/SYNK.
Actually, I made the pads less expressive - I'm switched off velocity sensitivity using FULL LEVEL option, the only thing I can control is a note duration! The "Super Clave" keygroup is expressive by itself, because of auto-wah FX. Thanks for watching!
Want more MPC Pad Perform presets? Consider visiting my Patreon page. Even if you have no intention of becoming a Patron, you will find some very cool free chord presets (yes, including MIDI) that are unavailable anywhere else. However, by becoming a Patron, you will open a portal to a never-ending stream of chord progressions.
www.patreon.com/musicianparadise
Thank you so much for this video!
Ohhh thank you!
The tip for using the sustain pedal and MIDI keyboard is out of this world! Gives the MPC so much more realism when creating chord progressions along with other melodic phrases on top. I first saw a video by Musician Paradise using Ripchord and since then, I have not looked back. All of Musician Paradise videos are Top of the line. You feel as though no time is wasted and all this knowledge is gained! Thank you Musician Paradise.
Thank you very much for your kind words!
Well deserved, thank you!
You are without a doubt the best in what you're doing with your channel bro... by a landslide💯 I sit up till early hours in the morning with your progressions... it changed the game completely for me... without it I would use MPC Beats for percussion and sample only... it opened up a whole new world.... thanks again bro.. you're second to none..
thank you for your kind words
This is an absolute phenomenal channel. I've learned a lot from your channel and value your efforts.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I love the random dank anime flashes when you highlight something
thanks for letting me know, I'll keep doing it!
This is awesome. Your content is really helpful… thank you so much from a new mpc user!
Thanks for watching! You will have a lot of fun with the MPC, it's an amazing device!
This video is so helpful. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
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Welcome aboard! Check out my free chord progressions packs for MPC :
ua-cam.com/video/YuS-gRxJIRU/v-deo.html
00.00 - Intro
00:11 - 1. Fixed velocity trick
00:46 - 2. Custom category menu
1:35 - 3. Pad Perform+Midi Keyboard
2:10 - 4. Double stops
2:36 - 5. Sustain Pedal
3:08 - 6. Geometric Pad Pattern
3:41 - 7. Pad Transpose
4:07 - 8. Pad Banks
4:37 - 9. Pad Perform+Arp
05:14 10. Rearrange pad order
3:11 like that 'jacob 03 a' chord preset is made by you bro?? my mpc doesn't have that
@@rummerd2405 yes, all the presets made by me, you can download those for free from the links in the description of the video.
@@MusicianParadise thx bro thx
THANK YOU!!!
You're welcome!
Great Video! I learned quite some things!
But what I dont get about the MPC Live is why it assigns random notes in between the pads which have the chords in a custom made saved progression. For example: I make a progression with 4 chords and save it as a custom progression. When I select this progression in the notes menu it always has other notes on the pads instead of only 4 pads with 1 chord each.
Hmm, that's an interesting question! I have an idea why this might happen, but I could be wrong. Typically, I hard-quantize the chords to quarter notes before converting them to progressions, and make sure every note in the chord has the same length. After that, I select all the MIDI notes and slightly reduce their length by just a few milliseconds to avoid legato or overlapping notes. All of these steps help the MPC to cleanly convert your chords into the .progression file. You are referring to the Note Menu - are you using AKAI Force or MPC? Because usually access to the .progression files done from the progressions menu.
@@MusicianParadise Thanks for your quick answer. My Notes were all exactly the same length, so I doubt the hard quantize helps but I will try it later anyway! Maybe reducing their length slightly will do the trick, will try it.
I am using MPC Live 2 and was refering to the "Notes" (16 Level) Button on the Unit itself which opens the "Pad Perform" mode, didnt describe it well in my last post.
Most useful video ever. thanks 👍👍
Thanks for watching!
Gold!
I'm really glad you digging it!
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Thanks
You're awesome!!!!!!!!!!
How Do you assign Single Notes in # 4 ??. Mind Implosion here that's great for sonic possibilities
It actually very simple - at first, I'm playing or drawing some sequence of chords and d single notes into the MPC piano rolL, then I'm using "Convert To Progression" feature so the MPC creates custom chord progression file out of my MIDI in piano roll. And, if original midi has single notes those will appears as a single notes in .progressions files! Hope this helps, thanks for watching!
This video is flipping gangster
Thank you!
Have you figured out how to use different pad perform settings for different programs or different tracks. If I have a monosynth on one track and a polysynth on another track, obviously I'd never want to use chord progression for the mono synth but I'd want to switch between the tracks with one click... right now it seems to apply the same pad perform setting to every track...
I think you have to manually change the pad perform settings every time...not ideal workflow
Lol I hit that like button
Good tip on the half level....
thanks for tip #3
You're welcome! This is the closest thing to the real keyboard performance.
hello great video. How does one go about adding the custom chord progressions to the mpc hardware?
It is quite easy -
ua-cam.com/video/tfsjJOuKArI/v-deo.html
@@MusicianParadise Thanks for clearing that up, works like magic!!
Awesome…
Thanks!
hei, thank you for a good video :D how do you turn pad perform off? I put it on and now i can not get rid of it... I can not play only one note :o it always triggers another note, impossible to turn this off, I can not use my midi program or any program anymore, please help
I the the right left corner of Pad Perform screen on your MPC choose "chromatic" tab instead "progressions. I hope it will help!
@@MusicianParadise thank you :D I tried this but it still is playing a note that is much higher along with my other note, this is strange.... but I will let you know if I figure this out
@@eldflaug strange! Try different modes of pad perform, try to switch banks. Perhaps you are triggering another track by midi along with the first one?
@@MusicianParadise hei thank you so much! I finally got this to work right by choosing "custom" in pad performance mode. I turned MPC on and off and then changed pad mapping just to be sure it was right, and then choose this custom settings and now finally this is working. Thank you for the help :D like you said, something strange was going on, i must have accidentally changed something more than pad performance. Im really happy that this is ow all working normally again!
Hi. First thanks for doing these. How can i rename progressions after theyve been created? I tried renaming your Jamiroquai progressions but they still come up in other folder.
Thanks!
Watch this video:
ua-cam.com/video/iLf1nD61tAw/v-deo.html
This will work for newly created progressions. If you want to put existing progressions into the custom categories, the easiest way is to play and record each one into the piano roll and re-save it as shown in the video. Renaming the progressions files does not work. I hope one day I'll find a workaround for this.Hope this helps!
Well, finally I found how to rename already existing progressions:
ua-cam.com/video/iEZU-24xiEY/v-deo.html
how do you get pad performance mode? my mpc live doesn't have it anymore
first of all, to access Pad Perform you have to be in a one of the three types of programs - Keygroup program; Plugin Program; Midi Program. From 2.8 update, pad perform have a shortcut on the main screen - switch the current track to one of the program types mentioned above and look at the low right corner of the screen - you will see a small, MPC pads like square shortcut with "pad preform" written below. Hope this helps!
How do you play chords on the mpc and a bass line on the keyboard?
If you connect MIDI keyboard to your MPC you can do that. With 2.8 OS update It also possible to play two (or more) different programs - one on pads and another on MIDI kb. You can set it up in the Preferences/MIDI/SYNK.
@@MusicianParadise so I can't do this if I got a USB keyboard?
@@espobellaespo yes, usb MIDI keyboard
These sound are horrible
🔇Happy New Year!
@@MusicianParadise not you I’m just saying the original sounds in the mpc aren’t good to me. I actually liked and saved the video
@@noblelegacy670 lol, yes, in deed!
How did you make the pad be expressive like that?
How did you make the pad be expressive like that when you were playing the clavi?
Actually, I made the pads less expressive - I'm switched off velocity sensitivity using FULL LEVEL option, the only thing I can control is a note duration! The "Super Clave" keygroup is expressive by itself, because of auto-wah FX. Thanks for watching!