The pads are perfect for playing drums but often don’t have the necessary expressiveness when playing melodic instruments. The most common way for inputing these events is to use the MPC pads – in fact, the MPC pads are the MPC’s own built in MIDI controller. This can be done programatically using the GRID, LIST EDIT, step sequencer or even by loading MIDI files, but MIDI events can also be recorded or performed in real time directly into the sequencer. The MIDI events used to trigger all these sounds all initially need to be inputted into the MPC sequencer. Even the events used to play back the drum sounds in a DRUM program are still MIDI events. What is a MIDI Controller?Īt the heart of the MPC is a powerful MIDI sequencer which can trigger sounds from any MIDI enabled sound source, be it internal samples assigned to a KEYGROUP program, sounds generated by an internal plugin synth or sounds generated by attached hardware synths.

You can download the tutorial files here, but to recreate the examples you’ll need to attach a MIDI controller to your MPC (and for the last part you’ll need two controllers connected).

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