This video and accompanying download walk you though integrating Logic Pro into your MPC-centered studio. In this setup, we use the MPC as the sequencer, with Logic Pro acting a sound module. We also incorporate a USB MIDI keyboard controller.
This article walks you though how to route MIDI input from external MIDI controllers to specific Software Instrument tracks and MIDI channels in Logic Pro 8 or 9.
Everyone wants more. If you are lucky enough to own an Akai MPC and an Akai MPK, then you should know that these can be synced together using MIDI Clock. This allows for perfect timing and instantaneous messaging between all synced devices and programs. Check out the guide below on how to sync an Akai MPK, an MPC, and Propellerhead's Reason software. Once you do this, beware! The dangers of such unlimited potential may be hazardous to your health!
In this video, we'll cover loading and saving on the Akai MPC5000. This will include samples, programs, sequences and songs.
A step-by-step walkthrough on how to synchronize your MPC with Reason.
A step-by-step walkthrough on how to synchronize your MPC with Cubase and Nuendo.
A step-by-step walkthrough on how to synchronize your MPC with Fruity Loops.
A step-by-step walkthrough on how to synchronize your MPC with Ableton Live.
The MPC5000 not only features great tools for song and beat production, it's also a powerful live-performance instrument. From dirty, gritty, in-your-face distortions to wacky modulation effects, the MPC5000's effects engine could easily replace an entire suitcase of pedals and other effects units. On top of the effects engine, the MPC5000's Q-Link assignable controllers, sampling engine, and of course, the velocity and pressure-sensitive MPC pads make for an incredible live performance tool. In this article, we will showcase a handful of live performance tricks.
A step-by-step walkthrough on how to synchronize your MPC with Cubase LE.
A step-by-step walkthrough on how to synchronize your MPC with Sonar.
A step-by-step walkthrough on how to synchronize your MPC with Pro Tools.
Many external synthesizers and modules have parameters such as filters, envelopes, and oscillators that can be controlled by MIDI Continuous Controllers (CCs). You can use MPC5000 Q-Link controls to send and sequence MIDI CCs to control these parameters. You save a program with Q-Link assignments and recall them for later use.
Here's an effects chain that’s designed for absolute distortion craziness. We recommend trying it on drums, hits, and 16th note arpeggiated synths.
Frequency Shifter is an effect that has been around for a long time, but fell out of favor in the late 1970s. Today, producers are rediscovering this effect that does NOT do what its name implies. A frequency shifter does not function as a pitch shifter; it creates a harmonic shift. In small does, using frequency shifter can sound like a nice stereo chorus. In larger amounts, the effect takes on more of a ring modulator character. This tip will enable you to use frequency shifter as a stereo chorus that will make whatever you put into it sound huge!
In this video we walk through how to install or replace the CDM25 DVD-ROM drive in an Akai Professional MPC500 or MPC2500. The plug-and-play DVD drive comes right out with no tools, and can be swapped out in about 2 minutes. Just a screw driver is needed to open the access panel.