To use the built-in keys as one of the controllers in this tutorial, make sure ‘ KEYBOARD CONTROL > Keyboard Route‘ is set to Tracks. MPC Keys owners: In this tutorial, you can substitute the built in keys for many of the examples, but you can also use these instructions to add additional controllers to your set up.
We have workarounds such as PAD PERFORM and the arpeggiator, but for many instrument performances it’s often preferable to use an external MIDI controller, typically a MIDI keyboard with more playable keys, mod wheels, pitch bend control etc.Īnd as we’ll see, we can easily hook up multiple controllers to the MPC giving us the flexibility to assign different types of controllers to different instruments. 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). This MPC MIDI tutorial is suitable for all the current standalone touchscreen MPCs MPC X, MPC One, MPC Key 61, MPC Live and MPC Live II running MPC Firmware 2.8 or greater (the screenshots have been updated to the newer layout in MPC 2.11).
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