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When multisampling it’s often a good idea to sample your instruments as dry as possible as you can always add effects like reverbs, delays and chorus to your MPC instrument program at a later date, so head over to the EFFECTS tab in the Hybrid plugin GUI.Īt the top you’ll see there are no effect inserts applied to parts A or B. Select pad BANK D or E on your hardware and play a few pads to preview the lead patch.

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This will open the Plugin Window. Tap on the patch selector in the top right of the screen and from the ‘Soft Leads’ group select ’13 Analog Square Lead’. Click on the Plugin Window icon in the Inspector: Now you need to select a patch you wish to ‘clone’. If you have TYPE and MANUFACTURER grouping enabled (bottom left of screen), you’ll find Hybrid 3 inside ‘ MPC Expansions > AIR Music Technology‘:ĭouble click Hybrid 3 to assign it to our PLUGIN track.

Click the PLUGIN box to open the Plugin selection window: In Main Mode in the computer GUI, make sure the Inspector on the left hand side is open – if it isn’t, hit i on your keyboard. While you can configure your plugin from the hardware UI, I recommend you head over to the computer GUI as it handles the plugin interface so much better. I’m going to use the ‘ Hybrid 3‘ plugin simply because this is built in to all installations of the MPC Software, however once you’re familiar with the workflow you can use this template to sample any patch from any plugin you wish VST, AU and AAX – as long as the plugin is recognised by your MPC, you’re good to go. You’ll now need to assign a plugin to this track. Step 2: Choose & Configure Your Plugin Patch The project loads up a 100 BPM sequence called 5 Semitone 1v and sets track 1 as a ‘ Plugin‘ track (currently no plugin assigned):

Enter the folder ‘ Standalone Instrument Plugins Workflow‘ and double tap the ‘ Standalone Plugins.xpj‘ project file (make sure ‘ NO FILTER’ or PROJECTS is selected at the top of the BROWSER): Go to the BROWSER and navigate to the location on your computer where you extracted the workflow files. Please note that to keep this tutorial as compact as possible I do assume you already have a working knowledge of the MPC X or MPC Live if you need more help understanding topics such as multisampling, keygroup editing, sample editing and sequencing then check out my hands-on tutorial guide, ‘ The MPC X & MPC Live Bible‘. Now this workflow can be completed entirely in the computer GUI (there’s one task that has to be done in the GUI) but on the whole I’m going to explain the workflow from the hardware/touchscreen UI as that’s what most MPC X and MPC Live users are used to.

Go to MENU and hit the ‘MPC’ chip near the top right of the screen and select CONTROLLER MODE.

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Desktop).įire up MPC Software 2.x and connect your MPC Live/X via USB to your computer and turn on your MPC.

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The first thing to do is download the workflow files and extracted the contents to any location on your computer (e.g. This 10 step workflow handles the bulk of the work for you, it even renames all your samples and automatically maps them to a fully working keygroup program! Before You Start So I thought it would be pretty cool to come up with a really quick ‘plugin cloning’ solution for the MPC X/MPC Live community, so here it is, the ‘VST-2-MPC’ workflow that will allow anyone to clone their favourite plugin patch using nothing but an MPC X/MPC Live in under 3 minutes! We all know that we can’t use plugin instruments while in ‘standalone mode’ in our MPC X & MPC Live, but we can quite literally ‘clone’ those plugins by multisampling them and creating native MPC ‘keygroup’ instruments from those samples. This has been my most requested MPC X & MPC Live tutorial ever – how to create ‘standalone’ MPC instruments from your favourite VST plugins! Update: Since the release of firmware 2.3, the workflow described in this tutorial is now superseded by my new Autosampler tutorial!

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