MPC One + Live // The BEST way to do Side Chain Compression

[@LiamKillen]

Thorough explanation of side chain compression with the MPC One/Live. Other MPC Content (Tutorials/Walkthroughs): ►bit.ly/2OvoofQ​ Samples to use in your beats: ►www.sellfy.com/liamkillen​ Everything else you need to know about me: ►www.liamkillen.com/youtube-description

[@Hysteric_Subjects]

Thanks mate

[@LiamKillen]

My pleasure

[@MrBluesDeville335]

@@LiamKillen Hi Liam. About the blur on the screen from your overhead camera, it might feel blurry because it is overexposed. Higher density parts start to glare everywhere when they reach a peak intensity. The luminosity of the screen exceeds the ambiant one of your room. Therefore, three ways to improve that : - either you bring down the exposure on the camera itself (if it is set to a manual setting) - either you dim the luminosity of the screen from the MPC One software - or either you bring more light fixtures and direct them to the MPC. Therefore your camera, if set to "auto exposure", will reduce its overall exposure and the screen will look sharper. Thanks for your great content. All the best.

[@LiamKillen]

I think what i’m going to try is to put the screen on night mode. That might help too! Thanks for your info!

[@MrBluesDeville335]

@@LiamKillen "KZbin knowledge" team 🤜🤛

[@cosmosteinhauer226]

I was just thinking the other day how I had to figure out side chain comp on my mpc and then this appeared on my reddit feed. Much appreciated🙌

[@LiamKillen]

Awesome! Perfect timing ✌️

[@miguelanswer]

Thanks a lot for putting this info in a nutshell. Was just passing by but second thought says I'd better give a look to your MPC content. Thumbs up, mate! 👍🏻

[@LiamKillen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@seanhenriques808]

Another great video with useful information. I only wish I had watched it yesterday because I spent an hour today trying to figure out the track versus pad option by the eyeball. You explained it perfectly! Thank you! 🌈🙏🏾❤️

[@LiamKillen]

Always glad to help

[@jackoflynn1487]

tHANK YOUUUU sooo muchhhh. I got the mpc live recently and Iv been able to make some stuff with it but mostly just been feeling overwhelmed by all that it can do. Its like a daw without the dedicated toutrails hahahaha really like your video style, informative and fun and they keep getting better. good hussle Liam

[@LiamKillen]

Jack! Glad to hear that they’re helping! MPC One is just so freggin dope

[@DNYLNY]

I’m a huge new fan of Liam

[@LiamKillen]

Always appreciate you watching 🍻

[@ThinkerThunker]

Hey LK, turn your OH cam to 'manual focus," then dial the focus in. That's it. Automatic focus and oftentimes automatic exposure are your enemy. Great video, thanks!

[@LiamKillen]

That’s what I’m doing! There’s something about focusing on MPC screens and I think I finally figured it out- the actual screen print is probably like an inch lower than the outer layer of the screen- that may be it. I’ll get it lol

[@kathleencoveny3860]

yeah .. salsa .. along with your really creative sounds at the finale .. love it ! .. thanks for the tips .. always so thorough with visuals and explanations .. humble too .. you rock .. cheers .. thanks !

[@LiamKillen]

Thanks as always for watching! ❤️

[@kathleencoveny3860]

@@LiamKillen always my pleasure to tune in .. learn .. be informed .. cheers !

[@LiamKillen]

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[@DasiMoisn]

You could also go to pad mix and add the plugin there. Makes it easier for me at least. GREAT VIDEO!!!🤩

[@LiamKillen]

Thanks for the suggestion and for watching! ::-)

[@ScooterJackson]

Shift + track mix will take you to the pad mix page, where it's easy as to assign effects to individual pads 👍

[@LiamKillen]

Oh nice thanks for the tip! 🙂

[@ScooterJackson]

@@LiamKillen for sure! Keep the great vids coming! Haven't had my MPC One too long, got it to use as a brain for my dawless rig. I'm quick to move around it live, but I love watching people dive deep into production on it.

[@LiamKillen]

Yeah it’s a really deep tool i’ve still got some exploring to do for sure

[@cruepprich]

Great explanation and super useful. Thanks!

[@LiamKillen]

Thx for watching :-)

[@HIFI1965]

@Liam Killen - I'm a bit late to the show, but one of the most useful (and well hidden) feature of the MPC's is the ability to route the output of tracks/pads to Sub mixes.... here, you can have one submix for the kick (with the MD Input) and others for bass, synths, etc. (all with the Mother D on it). I also add my standard effects to sends. Finally, I map everything to a launch control XL, and save as a template. Now, when I want to make a track, I use the template, and I've got my sidechaining, effects all set up, and I have a mixer all set up, so I can get hands on with levels, muting, and efx. Now just route your tracks/pads to the appropriate submix and Bob's your uncle.

[@LiamKillen]

Oh awesome thank you for this! :-)

[@SonicVibe]

This was a big help !

[@LiamKillen]

🍻

[@unclemick-synths]

Another feature of the MPC that I must try 👍

[@LiamKillen]

There’s some killer ones.

[@johanberube3490]

Great inspirational tips there man. Never though using mother ducker to compress my drums, but I used it more like a gating effect. Keep it up!

[@LiamKillen]

Ouuuu something to look into as well. Thank you! 🤝

[@Hysteric_Subjects]

Wait what does gating effect do? Vids or it never happened! lol

[@LiamKillen]

It’s what it sounds like. A gate that you have control over. So if you choose for it to be open for 30 milliseconds for example, your sound source will sound for 30 ms and be completely cut off afterwards.

[@nicholasbishop884]

Thank you for this. Any recommendation on how to use the sidechain compression to duck a track without an audible audio input? For example, if I have a pad intro I want to play without drums, can I use mother ducker to sidechain to a midi source or silent audio input to create the ducking effect without also hearing the drum or input in the mix??

[@LiamKillen]

I’m pretty sure you can do that - like in a DAW. Although I myself have not tried it !

[@bt70495]

It’s probably just a preference thing but was kinda surprised you weren’t using the q links to make those adjustments way quicker and smoother to me

[@LiamKillen]

Yeah i'm actually starting to use those babies more often now they're just great.

[@bt70495]

Yea man for the longest I never even touched them until I seen a few guys that showed me what you could do with them and man it sped up the work flow pretty good man haha

[@2tallcharles99]

Hey Liam! Know if there's a way to make a ghost sidechain bus?

[@LiamKillen]

I'm not sure what you mean by that but you can have several busses, one for ghost notes and another for kick, let's say.

[@quickduxmusic3241]

Live MK2 user here. I found if your duck looks like hes squatting afew plates at a planet fitness, the settings might be too rough. +1 sub love it!

[@LiamKillen]

Oh yeah it’s pumpin’ pretty hard lol

[@LiamKillen]

thank u!!

[@enterthesloth]

Yooooo thank you for this

[@LiamKillen]

Glad to help!

[@h1pperbeats]

What about drumsbreaks when i chopp them, record, and played them solo,why my second beat (snare) sound squeezed

[@LiamKillen]

Hmm there are so many potential reasons i'm not sure where to start.

[@middle_pickup]

Is mother ducker the only compressor with a sidechain input on the MPC? I see there are several other compression algorithms. I kind of want to hear a A/B comparison of the sidechain compression of the MPC vs an external bus compressor doing the same thing.

[@LiamKillen]

I’m pretty sure it’s the only one

[@Joebabylon]

Thanks for the vid! Any idea how I can avoid the mother ducker making the pads that I’m ducking too loud/distorting? It seems that the tiniest change to threshold makes the pads way too loud/distorted.

[@LiamKillen]

Tweak those settings! And turn off that auto adjust

[@MasterIvo]

I'm not sure, but I believe there was another sidechain compressor on the mpc one, right?

[@LiamKillen]

Not sure! Haven’t used it yet.

[@MasterIvo]

@@LiamKillen I looked, there is none. I was wrong

[@LiamKillen]

ah ok good to know

[@ea5e95]

Appreciated that, thanks yo 🙏🏿

[@LiamKillen]

Always a pleasure.

[@davidscott2095]

Thank you for the video. I have a quick question: Does the MPC One have both a low pass and a high pass filter built into the hardware? Thank you kindly. Blessings.

[@LiamKillen]

Yeah i’m sure it’s got it

[@LiamKillen]

Check the FX plug ins i’m sure there’s something you can work with there

[@LiamKillen]

cheers!

[@bjamminsincebirth3494]

Do you think that the MPC is better than the Machine Plus for full production?

[@LiamKillen]

I don’t know THAT much about Machine Plus but i do know that they’re both awesome and you can go full on with both of them.

[@favouritethings11]

Mpc is better in that it's a full daw

[@LiamKillen]

Yeah some people don’t like it for that reason though.

[@LiamKillen]

gotcha!

[@unclemick-synths]

@@LiamKillen I like it because it's enough of a DAW to be able to fix audible problems without needing a mouse-DAW, but not so much of a DAW that I waste days fixing inaudible "problems"! 😀

[@PeteOnTheBeat]

Hello, Thanks for the video. If you don't mind, can't you say what recording gear are you using? And programs to edit the video? I don't have the One yet,but when I do,i want to start to make some jamming videos

[@LiamKillen]

Im recording from my DAW into the zoom h5, which is also recording my vocal.

[@mindajuk]

Thanks for the informative videos. I wanted to ask you about the pad sensitivity of MPC one. I used to play with maschine mk2 , and when i transitioned to mpc i noticed that pad sensitivity is not so great here.Since you are finger drumming ,i assume that pads are important to you , so did you do any kind of moding regarding pad sensitivity on mpc one? I know that some of people just play always full level , and then adjusting volume in mixer. But how about playing synth plugins , when you want more natural feeling ? I do have a keystep37 for synth parts , but in general would be nice to have the pads on mpc a bit more naturally sensitive and responsive. On old maschine they are way better ,at least in my noobs opinion. Once again thanks for the content :)

[@LiamKillen]

My pleasure thanks for watching! I find the pads at default to be quite responsive actually do I haven’t touched the setting- it works for me! I did notice that for the highest velocity you’ve gotta hit that pad pretty hard but I kinda like that. My neighbours prob don’t though 😏

[@Stadsjaap]

About your o/h cam... you might wat to set it a little higher and zoom in rather than trying to get it as close a possible. (Digicams traditionally use horizontal lines to determine focal depth, so zooming in could help to flatten the depth of field.) Just a thought...

[@LiamKillen]

I've tried that! It's the screen on the MPC that's just auto blurry if you shoot head on. If you angle the cam it seems to work better which i've done in some more recent videos.

[@tom22333]

Thx

[@LiamKillen]

Any time

[@front-ward]

Yo love the vids keep with it

[@LiamKillen]

Always!

[@_ENOC]

You lost me with the "track 10 is for universal drums" part. Could you please elaborate? Thank you in advance!

[@LiamKillen]

You can either program individual tracks for each drum or have several drums on one track “universal drums” so if you choose to side chain to universal it’ll side chain to all drums on that track. If you an individual drum (one pad) it’ll side chain to that instead.

[@dragonheatbeats9944]

I think it’s the mpc one’s screen you have to be at a certain angle for the screen to be clear on video for some reason

[@LiamKillen]

I tried changing fps- and even at an angle it’s a little tricky. 🤔🤔 I’ll keep asking around cuz it’s distracting.

[@MixedByJoJo]

Show the mpc more sheesh

[@LiamKillen]

Sheeeeesh heres a playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLE5yApCgtOwA-e5AfkHmIKIQyYWkgpFUA

[@nickkoch8480]

stop going so fucking fast??? choose the input????? /// CUT

[@LiamKillen]

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