Akai MPC Key 61 - Scale Mode - Play like a PRO!

[@mlbellino]

I think this sealed the deal for me. I have no memory for chords, even stickers on the keys don’t help. I like to make noise on my keyboards, so maybe this will help me sound better. Thanks for your videos, very well done.

[@WyattLite-n-inn]

Best explanation of scale mode I’ve ever seen

[@stefanhagel8496]

Thanks for your MPC 61 videos - great job. Would be nice if one day you could introduce the auto sampling function!

[@DSoundman]

Thanks! That’s on my list!

[@FadeEcomonics]

🔑 1:50,2:34,2:43, 3:05,4:30,6:43

[@dameg8976]

Does scale mode also work on the midi out port? (5 pin or USB)

[@Resounded]

HUH ! Amazing ! I like it.. Sometimes It would be nice to have a " Bad Note Insurance Marker " Backing you up.. Nothing worse than hitting a sour note during a " Soaking " or Harp and Bowl Night... Thanks !

[@tyshekashay]

Can this be done with the software with out the controller & if so how?

[@Wolverich]

Thanks for this explanation! Now is there any way to program the drumpad to follow chord progressions, instead of playing what comes stock?

[@swiftmello123]

On the MPCX you can select individual pads whether it be the kicks or high hat doesn’t matter any sound or sample and assign a scale or a route note so that it is in key or scale so yeah I’m pretty sure this has the same workflow and you can do the same thing. It’s very quick and easy. You just hit edit sample and it’s right there at the middle bottom of the screen and you can select what you want for each individual sound and sample.

[@JoseMendoza-jg4we]

Are these functions on a Nord stage 3 👀 asking for a friend. Lol

[@KnNguyen-xd8ur]

The sound is good. Do keyboard have function transposition, high or low??

[@bowersie]

Is it possible to lock the selected scale to just the white keys? It's a feature that the Scaler 2 VST allows you to do, but it would be awesome if it was available in a standalone setting. It seems that it's awfully close to being possible, so maybe it's buried further down the menus of 'Keyboard Control'.

[@jbognap]

This seems like a reasonable feature. I don't own an MPC, but maybe you can use a combination of transpose and scale mode?

[@matthewgaines10]

You would pick a scale that only includes the major keys.

[@davidshelton629]

Can I transpose in snap scale?

[@sooesoss6063]

Man your Fire on that keyboard... thanks for the tips that it seems know one else teaches... thanks!

[@audiobunny1767]

Silly Question? Doe it only record the midi data relative to the scale mode chosen? Great Video Series on the MPC Key 61 as well ❤

[@DSoundman]

That’s a good question! I’d have to test it out and see.

[@elitemusic01]

Does this work for The Mpc x in standalone mode

[@pierrepomerol9375]

thx!!!

[@dmitriysoldsarg2526]

Hi! How did upbeat on it?

[@cashrainbow]

good lessons

[@BaBass1972]

Will this settings follow specific project, or are they global?

[@swiftmello123]

Specific to each individual track or assigned samples being used in that particular track.

[@profitstyles1683]

Can you do this in mpc live 2

[@rylieriley]

"It's like cheating!" yeah, I would say so. 🤣

[@joelharvey]

In one way this is cool, but in another way it actually makes the keys more difficult to learn. Hearing the wrong notes is how you know you're pressing the wrong key, so if you remove that possibility, you prevent yourself from acquiring the muscle memory you get from playing the keys.

[@theserulesoflife]

Best tips for learning piano outside of paying for private lessons?

[@rickywatkins9406]

Will this play in monophonic mode? I want to replace my Sub Phatty, but I need monophonic to for my playing style.

[@swiftmello123]

Yes it will

[@MiguelExhale]

Oh yeah. Until I get lessons.

[@robinr22]

This is exactly why I've sold both the MPCs I've owned. As ever, Akai come up with a great feature but botch the implementation... Why oh why oh why Akai, why can't you just lock the white keys to the scale?? I don't want it to filter and I don't want it to pick the note for me - I just want the scale on the white keys!! That surely can't be hard to do? And yet.... Plus, while I'm complaining, why can't the piano roll lock to a key too? It's so frustrating trying to shift a chord up and down and having to move each note individually - when, as with Ableton, if it was just the key and no other notes, I could just worry about the intervals. I loved my MPCs but this is the single reason I won't buy another again.

[@themonster921]

per essere autodidatta sei molto bravo