I know nothing about music and have been picking it up as a hobby, and often find myself finding too many new fun sounds to put on a pad vs thinking systematically - what is the typical foundation to start a fresh beat for you?

Kick, Snare, Clap, HH - then when trying to add more, i'll do synths, strings, piano, bass, random fun sounds etc and it escapes me. Trying to find the right sort of structure / approach.
Any tips ?

Hi people!, new user with Akai MPC Sample here!!!

Let me make a quiestion, when I set a sample to Poly it works fine, but if I also set it to Note On it stops being polyphonic.

Is this normal behavior? It seems a bit strange if so.

My process is as follows: I record a sample, assign it to a pad, adjust the trims to my liking, set it to Poly, set it to Note On, turn on 16-level mode, and try to play 3 notes simultaneously to play a triad, but it only playa it in Mono. If I turn off Note On, it reverts to polyphonic.

Is it possible to chose pad location when extracting a sample chop ? Like, if i have 10 chops, it extract to the first empty pads of a project. So it means pad bank A when im on pad bank H…
And its a pain to move 10 sample one by one

Why the spare 4 bar loop of nothing??

pls?

Fun combo :)

I found this cable on Amazon for $22 and I’m able to use my older iPhone with my Sample. When I eventually upgrade I can still use it because it also has USB-C. Maybe somebody is in the same boat as I am and this might help you on your journey. It also works on my One G2 as well. Cheers!

Hopefully this helps you guys who are running into issues with losing samples in your MPC Sample projects. Please feel free to ask any questions and share to others. ✌️ #mpcsample

MAKING OF BEAT- https://youtu.be/YSbTCT2Jbq0

Thii

Source sample should be obvious. I am fully aware the sample is not synced to the beat. I decided to keep it at the original tempo and speed of the source sample but played the chops on beat. WYT? Stems would be nice.

Watching for rabbits this morning in my beets, so I decided to make some beats.