I tried an MPC2000xl a couple of times. Was impressed when I hooked
it up to a Novation DrumStation. The pads were all velocity and time
sensitive, you could do all these fancy snare rolls, volume and speed
all shifting.

In terms of replacing hardware with software, I've had good
experiences in terms of sampling. I replaced an Akai S5000 with
Ableton Live and it works beautifully. I trigger it from the
Schaltwerk and modulate all parameters with a Drehbank.


--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , q v s f u e k p s v h s l w
<izimizam@...> wrote:

>
> well i kind of tried this.Unless i am mistaken i couldnt find any

softrware that did the autonote repeat trick the mpc can do and i also
have found cubase sx really dodgy for sequencing midi this maybe me ,
i have a midex though but still somehow i never felt cubase sx was
good on the timing (anyone else find this ) .From my own experience i
found trying to take this appraoch of replacing 1 piece of hardware
with software and an interface rarely worked , ive tried with
softsynths and the real ones and couldnt get the same results or feel
and immediacy and i did try working mpc' like' in cubase witha
controller but somehow the fact you have no screen and nothing but
those rubber pads makes for a unique sequencing experience in some
ways.If you set the mpc to groove a little whatever you seem to do
comes out sounding cool , its timing is a joy and i am finding
software midi sequencing really depressing these days .You could geta
similiar effect with mpc like controller

> and software though and working with pads itself will yield

different results than keys - dont ask me why it would be any
different but i found it is and gives different results , pads are Way
better , especially those soft rubber ones .. . .

>
> regimental1200 <regimental1200@...> wrote: Do you think a

MIDI controller with MPC-like pads connected to a

> sequencer like Cubase or Ableton would be able to achieve the results
> of a full fledged MPC or is the internal sequencer really too unique
>
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Florian Anwander
> <Florian.Anwander@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi regimental1200
> >
> > > Yeah, I used to own an Xbase09 too. Seemed to have more groove. The
> > > problem with MPCs and software sequencers like Logic / Cubase is

that

> > > they're not 16 step sequencers. You gotta tap the beat in or click
> > > every beat.
> > I don't know the MPC (though I' think, it might be interesting), but
> for
> > logic it is not true. Get to "Event edit", select the step rate at

the

> > lowest left corner, activate the MIDI IN button, and play. More

details

> > (entering pause, or legato) can be found in the manual of Logic ;-).
> >
> > It is quite similar to the handling of the SH-101 or JX3P Sequencer.
> >
> > Florian
> >
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