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Michael;
I responded to your mail off list but it bounced so i'm re-posting here.
How much midi do you do? With midi what you're after is dead simple. Even
midi plus audio can be easily manipulated in this way on the MPC. I
perform a fifty minute show with just the MPC doing exactly what you
describe.
I do all of my production exclusively on the MPC. I don't have a computer
running in the studio. No time for one. I work against deadlines and
can't be bothered with bloat ware and crashes. I don't know how you
assemble your tracks so it's hard to say whether the transition from
Cubase to MPC will require a significant amount of strain on your part.
Still, you should be prepared for a paradigm shift.
Sequencing on the MPC is similar to working in Creator (the old Atari
sequencer). You create patterns that you can later assemble into songs.
Likewise, you can just improvise and call sequences on the fly by using
the pads to trigger sequences. Each sequence will loop until you instruct
the MPC to go to another sequence. You can start a new sequence at any
time you wish. In other words, you can cut a playing sequence off or have
the new sequence start at the completion of the currently playing
sequence.
One way to accomplish what you're after with the MPC assuming that you
don't compose by creating patterns that you later chain together into
songs, assuming that you compose linearly, on the MPC: you can create a
long sequence, your entire song as one long sequence. That sequence can
be cut up into in "passages" and each "passage" can
be triggered from a pad in real time. There are as many ways to work with
the MPC as there are MPC users. I suggest that you take a closer look at
the MPC (as well as the old Ensoniq ASR 10X). There's a reason why these
boxes are growing in popularity.
Hope this helps and good luck.
Jair-Rohm Wells
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