Akai MPC LIVE Tutorial - Timestretching & BPM detect - Lifted Noise

[@rxhymn1635]

you are under rated. Some of the best tutorials out there

[@LiftedNoise]

Thank You, I appreciate that foreal!

[@cruepprich]

Musiccalculator was a life saver for me. Great tip! Thanks.

[@LiftedNoise]

Yea that's a good one! I forgot all about it for awhile but needed it recently.

[@lindasson]

Just to you know bro, I been watching your videos for a while, and since I purchased my MPC Live (last September), you have been a blessing bro! Keep doing what you're doing, and Thanks!

[@LiftedNoise]

Much love bro 🙏 I appreciate it. Thanks for stopping to drop some encouragement.✌

[@hiighway_chile4080]

That music calculator will be a game changer for me...Instead of spending time trying different bpm until it matches your new repitches sample..this will def help and save time!

[@LiftedNoise]

No doubt, but you know what.. I don't use it much anymore. I've gotten into using WARP some time after I made this video, which allows us to change tempo and pitch freely.

[@gamandello]

very useful video Lifted NOise, as usual. It let me save time while stretching some guitar tracks I had previously recorded at a different BPM. Thank you for sharing it.

[@LiftedNoise]

Glad to hear it. 🙏 my pleasure making these vids and sharing them. I learn in the process as well.

[@MrLongduckdoong]

Nice! Thank you. Show us your work flow...How you sequence and use tracks.

[@LiftedNoise]

MrLongduckdoong yes definitely! I can do that. Thanks for stopping by.

[@CatLover-g7j]

What city are you in?

[@cruepprich]

Thanks

[@TwinGears]

well that explains why I keep screwing up my samples...lol - great useful video

[@LiftedNoise]

Glad it helped 🙏

[@BIGKLEE]

Thank you for your knowledge

[@LiftedNoise]

Yea ofcourse. Glad I can help .🙏

[@TwizzyTwade]

I needed this one bad ... new to the live

[@Zac_Szuberski]

Awesome job bro. Thanks for the tips

[@LiftedNoise]

No doubt bro, than you!

[@bdmthagreat6117]

Very useful!! Thank You man

[@rxhymn1635]

really great technique!! subbed

[@LiftedNoise]

Thanks bro 🙏

[@herb39hs]

Nice bro man I wish I lived by you bro I'll be a beast on MPC with you schooling me thanks for your tutorial dope

[@chairmanmaf]

I'm usually pretty dubious of these kind of videos, but this dude is really f*ckin dope

[@LiftedNoise]

🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@Roisindubh83]

subscribed , thank you for this very informative went from using the piss out of ableton because of its great warping but ive been trying to really branch out to more analog producing great tip

[@LiftedNoise]

I've definitely been back and forth myself. In the end I prefer dedicated equipment because it removes many other distractions, technical issues and also the infinite amount of choices ultimately, for me, stunt my creativity.

[@THEREALTWISTEDINSANE]

Help me out , in sample edit mode how tf do I get it to loop ? Loop lock is highlighted but it's not looping

[@LiftedNoise]

You can listen to your loop in sample edit by holding pad 13. If you want to loop in a program you need to set the pad to Note On in the lfo/modulation screen.

[@THEREALTWISTEDINSANE]

@@LiftedNoise I just need to loop my sample in sample edit , I clicked the loop button and tried all ways but I wasnt hitting pad 13, I'll try that when I get home , good lookin out 💯

[@LiftedNoise]

@@THEREALTWISTEDINSANE no doubt 👊

[@DoctorBlankenstein]

Good video.. Exactly what I was looking for. Clearly, Akai still hasn't figured out how to do auto time stretch and maintain tempo w/ pitch. :)

[@LiftedNoise]

You can do almost just that, have you tried warp within a drum program? Thanks for the feed on the video, glad it was useful to you.

[@LiftedNoise]

Also check out my tutorialplaylist, I have a video on warp.

[@DoctorBlankenstein]

Lifted Noise I just saw they added warp and Bpm lock with sequence. Well, about effin time. Used to drive me crazy with my 4000. Thinking of picking up the Live or possibly an Octotrack. The verdict is still not in. Maybe both! Lol

[@LiftedNoise]

@@DoctorBlankenstein I definitely couldn't tell you a thing about Octotrack but Akai did drop a firmware update for the Live an X that includes some very nice updates including built in synth plugins you can use standalone. I haven't dug to deep yet but go ahead and check it out, it may help you decide your purchase. Theres a ton of info on the mpc-forums website if you haven't check them already.

[@spot1119]

@@LiftedNoise I was gonna ask you why not use the warp function instead of time stretch? Time stretch seems to use more of your cpu and seems like alotta extra steps when you could just warp it? I’m not sure when to use which one yet and sometimes and I can’t figure out why, it won’t even let me use the time stretch when I try to process it.

[@Donjaethartist]

Thank you

[@LiftedNoise]

🔥🙏

[@quadgodbeatmachine]

Good video

[@LiftedNoise]

🙏

[@Johnnybananass-_]

It would be handy if the screen would allow you to see a bars length highlighted so you could chop ypou loop to fit within that measurement than chopping and trying to judge

[@yonibregman4337]

Thanks that helped a lot!

[@LiftedNoise]

No doubt! Glad it did.

[@dopeboyroy4595]

After u change the pitch...hit from bpm located beside detect...change tune and beats and that’s another way to detect bpm without using the Internet

[@LiftedNoise]

GOOD TIP!!!! 🙏✌

[@jakedypka3311]

For some reason i get very erratic bpm results from the bpm detect on my MPC Live. Like one extracted sample of 2 bars might read 102 and another 60 (from the same song) Am I doing something wrong?

[@LiftedNoise]

Is your sample trimmed precisely enough. I would make sure its looping the best you can get it. Press detect again. If it's still at around 100bpm you can look at it as half the bpm, when you go in to timestretch change the original tempo to 50bpm or whatever half of the bpm detected is, and time stretch it up to 60 bpm to match your other loop.

[@jakedypka3311]

@@LiftedNoise Thank you. this was actually really useful. It was definitely the amount of beats it thought it was analysing. I try to sample lots of stuff thats got varying tempos and it can make it tricky. I don't think there is a perfect method, you just need to use your ears.

[@LiftedNoise]

@@jakedypka3311 definitely. Most music outside of pop/electronic based music isnt recorded to a click track. You'll get those drifting tempos probably with most records recorded before the 80s. If you think about it 60bpm and 102bpm(51bpm) are only a 9bpm difference if you count in halftime.

[@brianlibert]

@@LiftedNoise hey man, thanks again for these great vids. When you say "you need to start with good loops" what do you mean exactly? Can you explain (or do you have a video on that)? Thank you.

[@LiftedNoise]

@@brianlibert I mean precisely trimmed so that they are looping smoothly.

[@chadwickcampbell95]

Great info and video. @LiftedNoise there is a easier way to chop samples without using the bpm detect and your calculator and everything still align correctly in perfect time and I can show how to do it through my knowledge of counting and basic music theory. My method works with not only 2 bar loops but i usually do it with 8 and even 16 bar loops. You can use your ear to hear that the sample loops evenly after you trim it which may be difficult for some people and even some sample that might not start on 1 or the down beat. But basically all you do is once you get a even bar loop you cont the beats for the entire loop if your loop is trimmed evenly this should always equal a EVEN number. It even has a place where you can change the number of beats if you get that correct and adjust it the time will always be correct and when you change the tune /pitch of the sample it will remain true then when you timestretch there should be no problems. I would love to collab with you on this topic for a future video.

[@LiftedNoise]

No doubt and hey thanks for the info. It sounds interesting but I don't exactly grasp what your saying completely. It is difficult to understand this through text, definitely better illustrated with a video. If you want, email me we could talk a bit more about it.

[@jakefuller1386]

why is my discard and time stretch greyed out?

[@LiftedNoise]

Did you add slice points to your sample? If you did you may have a slice selected, make sure it is set to all.

[@jakefuller1386]

@@LiftedNoise Ha thank you so much. I see what I was doing now.

[@sonnydee5135]

How do I change the pitch? You say, "I'm going to change the pitch." Then you just do it without showing us

[@LiftedNoise]

Go to program edit, click the samples tab at the bottom of the touchscreen and the section labeled semi and fine will allow you to change pitch. Each value under Semi is equavilant to a semi tone.

[@nateluna2765]

@@LiftedNoise So, there's no way to adjust the pitch w/o messing with the tempo?

[@LiftedNoise]

@@nateluna2765 yes with warp on it would do exactly that by adjusting semi tune or fine tune. Tempo will only change if you change it at the sequence

[@nateluna2765]

@@LiftedNoise I'll give that a try, thanks so much. This is my first mpc experience, there's so much to learn! Your videos, along with the MPC Bible have been my guiding light. Thanks man!

[@nateluna2765]

@@LiftedNoise So, just to be clear, when you're changing the pitch around 5:00 you mention that whenever you adjust the pitch the tempo will change? Do you not have warp in at this point? And why go this route with figuring out your new tempo rather than use the warp function? (Sorry, I'm fairly new to all this and it can get a bit confusing).

[@ameeromedia5883]

Not sure why but my time stretch is grayed out??

[@LiftedNoise]

You have one of your slices selected, exit the chop return to trim and make sure your sample slice is set to all and not a numeric value

[@ameeromedia5883]

@@LiftedNoise Funny I just figured it before I read this !!! But thank you so much!! I am new to MPC but this thing is great! Thank you!

[@ameeromedia5883]

@@LiftedNoise is there a way to change the key of the sample without changing the speed? When you change the pitch, it is relative to the speed which I hate

[@LiftedNoise]

@@ameeromedia5883 you could process the pitch than go back and timestretch back to your original tempo or try the warp function. Warp doesn't always sound great though.

[@ameeromedia5883]

@@LiftedNoise hey thanks again. Yesss warp sounds terrible!

[@nickrussell5621]

i use a 2500 and man this makes me so jealous. time stretching on 2500 makes it sound awful

[@LiftedNoise]

Well You could get an mpc live 2 for the price 2500s are going for used or an mpc one for half the price.

[@ritualcities]

This shit was mind blowing lol

[@scottrowan200]

My time stech is grayed out help lol

[@LiftedNoise]

You most likely have some slice points created. You need to make sure slice is set to all. A few of the process options are grayed out for individual slices. If your just trying to time stretch a slice. Extract it first to make it it's own sample.

[@scottrowan200]

Thank you brother

[@LiftedNoise]

@@scottrowan200 yea no doubt

[@brianlibert]

This video is really cool, but I wish you didn't run the music over your tutorial. It's hard to listen to you.

[@LiftedNoise]

Hey you know what Brian, thank you very much! I'm just figuring this video stuff out as I go, that's a great bit of feedback.

[@unic0de-yvr]

I will never understand why mpc autodetects so many ~125bpm samples as being ~63bpm. If your choices are like "53% of the master sequencer tempo" and "106% of the master tempo" you should probably guess the second one.

[@bboymac84]

Use patch phrase!

[@LiftedNoise]

Do you prefer patch phrase over warp?

[@bboymac84]

Lifted Noise warp is even crazier now! I agree. The live is that portable SAUSE!!

[@LiftedNoise]

@@bboymac84 it sure is!!👍👊

[@LiftedNoise]

@@bboymac84 do you know if there was anymore improvements to warp with 2.6?

[@bboymac84]

Lifted Noise should really be on point now. Sampling is crazier now compared to 10 years ago!!

[@larryfloro]

love Mpc but so fucking difficult to use

[@sherwoodsmallidge9186]

Ur audio levals are bad

[@LiftedNoise]

Thanks for the feedback 🙏