Routing and recording tracks from MPC Live into Ableton Live

[@RickyTinez]

doooooooode you need a grammy asap. Thank you for this info!

[@djjazzyjames5232]

Broooooo this video just saved me a whole bunch of time! I work from Ableton, and I was doing it the long way - exporting stems and uploading them. I love that I can use my MPC with Ableton this seamlessly 🙌

[@kanji_nakamoto]

Hi, Sam! This is great! You've explained it before and the intent was quite clear at that point but your effort to create and share this video will help a lot of people in the future, thank you so much!

[@Aris-yb1uy]

Thank you so much Sam.. and great sound! been following you for a few tears now!!

[@samhaskinmusic]

Thank you!

[@playmu5ic]

Gr8 video bruh thanks for sharing......

[@fredthebasspro2256]

Finally! An actual video about multi-track recording! AND it was concise and of reasonable video/sound quality, as wel as total length... I swear, the second a kid cops any MPC, regardless of it being an ancient relic or a state-of-the-art spaceship, it never fails -- they immediately start posting videos about how to do shit on it, and it's legit a "how to use Scarlett interface with Ableton" tutorial, every fucking time, where you are essentially shown the absolute simplest way to possibly record sounds at all, ie. by painstakingly single-tracking the main-outs...f u c k i n g k i l l m e. If you were considering making a similar video, just stop. please stop right now, yeah it was a kindhearted gesture to show some people some basic ass shit, but trust me, there are 34 thousand (and counting) of those videos currently polluting my feed with cryptic titles. The world has enough. Thanks but no thanks. In fact, this gentleman Sam Haskin has now covered the important/necessary shit finally, so it's been taken care of. Whoever you are, just put down the camera entirely and go outside or some shit. It will give you time to devise another played-out concept to copy-pasta lmao.. Thanks again for a solid video my dude!!!🙏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼👍🏼👌🏼🤙🏼✌🏼

[@ricksanchez4344]

I felt that

[@ozzelthecomposer5825]

Good stuff! I'm trying to get a good solid workflow between Maschine MK3, MPC, and Ableton. This helped quite a bit! Thanks!

[@ГудМан-м2к]

Realy veeeeery big thanks man!!!

[@seekingtruthonly.4299]

I bought an RME digiface USB to go with my MPC touch. Use the Mac IAC bus with Ableton as master and the MPC as standalone slave. 32 outs from MPC to Ableton. I stopped using the limited MPC plugin.

[@davidcooke779]

Super helpful. Thanks

[@acone810]

This video really help me!Thankss

[@alexdejoncaire]

Hi Sam, am grateful that you've posted this video. I was wondering on your opinion concerning sound quality. I've been producing music for a long time on Ableton Live and can get good sound quality on it, however, would you say the sound of the MPC is naturally thick in comparison?

[@samhaskinmusic]

They are both fully digital, so there shouldn’t be any difference in the intrinsic sound quality. The only differences you would hear would come from whatever plug-in you were using. That said the plug-ins that come with the MPC live are ok, But not as good as Ableton’s. All of that’s kind of moot, though, because of what’s shown in this video. You can run Ableton plug-ins on MPC output tracks. It’s really just a matter of what you prefer to author in.

[@tamoadakoe]

Hello Sir, extremely helpful tutorial 🙏 Could i be cheeky and ask for a tutorial on how you created that awesome track in the tutorial ? Great drum pattern 🎼

[@samhaskinmusic]

Thanks man. I'd have to dig it up, but I do remember it was a pretty simple thing. Two percussion hits, two different snares, then just a pretty standard 4/4 under it all. If I find it the project file, I'll post a link to it here for you so you can DL it and play with it.

[@tamoadakoe]

Sam Haas That would be xmas for me 🙏 Im a newbie to this and every little helps 😉 much appreciated and keep those tutorials flowing 🤓

[@tamoadakoe]

Thank you 👌

[@user-vd3if4wq6m]

Ya but does it zero out? I feel like I cant render every track and put it back together the same in the computer. Its always a little different. There not enough mixing capabilities within the MPC alone, need my high quality tools in my computer

[@nateluna2765]

Great tutorial! Thanks! Question: my channel mixer is showing my programs rather than my individual tracks. Is this normal? Is there a way to route my tracks rather than programs?

[@kajtek7562]

once you get into channel mixer on the top left you can choose type of stuff you want to work with, for example audio, program, or track ;)

[@AppAxis]

What about exporting MIDI?

[@kiryushah7382]

U can save project as als file, where u can choose midi or bounce to audio

[@djkarnigan1695]

Great video. Where do I get the MPC plug-in from that was displayed in the bottom low-fat corner of the screen in Ableton?

[@samhaskinmusic]

It should be installed in your VST folder as part of the MPC software installation. It really is just the desktop software with a VST wrapper around it.

[@Kill_OrB_eats]

Sweeeet! I'm debating on getting either the MPC Live 2 or MPC One... Any idea on whether or not this would work the same way on both of those?

[@samhaskinmusic]

Yeah they should. They all run on the same software, especially in plug-in mode like this video. I know there have been a lot of additions and improvements in the two years since I did this video, but I'm pretty sure the routing functions haven't been messed with.

[@georgejohnson7637]

Can anyone please help!!?? I'm trying to separate the headphone mix from the main outputs. In other words, have select instruments only play through the main L/R outputs while the whole song is playing through the headphones (or vice versa).

[@greyarea7689]

Can they be in the same program or do you need a seperate program for each sample? Can I record this way pad mutes? Thanks mister for your time and turtorial u got a sub

[@samhaskinmusic]

You can mix and match routing between individual pads and programs as much as you want. In this video I have the program with my claps and snares going to one set of outputs, but then send the snares from within that program to a different set of outs. It really is very flexible.

[@greyarea7689]

@@samhaskinmusic siiiiiickkkk this machine is impossibly good , thank you very much

[@mattsimon206]

Man how did you get push 2 to light up armed to record in the clips..i cant figure that out for nothing..great Video by the way

[@samhaskin]

Thanks man. You just go into layout view from the Push, then just arm each of the tracks for recording, either in Ableton, or using the record button with the track button. Once it's armed any open clip slots will be recordable when you press them.

[@user-hl9rw4ww9o]

hi Sam, thanks for the overview. Do you know: 1) whether the MPC can still send midi clock / sync to other hardware gear via its usb or midi outputs whilst in plugin mode? for example if you wanted to clock other hardware sequencers whilst recording using the plugin mode, or is external clocking from the MPC disabled whilst in plugin mode? 2) is it possible to run the MPC in plugin mode without the MPC being clock sync'd to the DAW but still have all the tracks virtually routed within the DAW for recording? I know Elektron's Overbridge can do this.

[@samhaskinmusic]

my replies will be a little outdated since I actually "downgraded" my Live for a 1000 about a year ago, to take everything I say with a grain of salt... 1 - I remember trying to do this when I first got the Live and Ableton wasn't recognizing it as a Midi interface. It is very possible they've fixed that by now though. 2 - not to my knowledge, but it's not something I ever felt the need to try. There might be something in setting to change the clock to internal in plugin mode, but again wasn't something I was looking for when I had it.

[@felixworldwide]

Thanks for the explanation how you do it. I am currently trying to figure out how I can record the midi notes from the tracks too to modify Midi and easier shift events in Ableton. I can record external midi controllers, but I don't get the Pads Midi Input. Any ideas?

[@_ENOC]

What about exporting the midi info ?

[@felixworldwide]

@@_ENOC that’s a work around only for me. Not efficient enough for me.

[@alexisromano7603]

do you know if there is a possibility to see mpc's automation lines in ableton? Thank you

[@goatmouthjones90]

Can you do this with the mpc live 2 into pro tools?

[@samhaskinmusic]

yep, the underlying mechanics should be the same, especially on the MPC side. Pro Tools might have it's own way of dealing with multi-timbral plugins -- I'm not familiar enough with it to know -- but it still should be able to do it, it's baseline DAW functionality.

[@goatmouthjones90]

@@samhaskinmusic I figured it out and I did it. Now I can get rid of my mpc 2000. And people said the mpc live 2 couldn't lock up in midi beat clock mine did perfectly

[@S.I.M.H.]

Awesome! How are you connected from the Mpc to the computer?

[@samhaskinmusic]

Just a USB cable -- it's in controller mode for this part.

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

Does this also work for audio coming into the input of the MPC live?

[@luigiavila6102]

Also, why the “downgrade” from the mpc Live to the mpc 1000? I haven’t a clue about why one would go to an earlier mpc when we have modern daws and then this mpc live

[@samhaskinmusic]

I didn't like the touchscreen. So much of the UI depends on it and it isn't precise enough to use like that. I found that for what I wanted to do JJOS was faster, more intuitive, and less bloated

[@blcksrcks]

Hi Sam! Can you help me please? When I connect mpc one by this way I can’t find my own plug-in presets. They lost in controller mode. I tried to copy all my presets to sd card but nothing. Thank u a lot!

[@samhaskinmusic]

not sure on that one -- if you're using the standalone MPC app, its basically another DAW which might or might not have access to all of the presets

[@filipswiniarski7388]

Where to find .dll file to put Mpc Beats into Ableton? Thanks

[@samhaskinmusic]

It's not a DLL, it's just the MCP vst that comes bundled with the app.

[@filipswiniarski7388]

@@samhaskinmusic Yeah, iknow that now, thanks

[@ozzelthecomposer5825]

How do you route audio tracks separately?

[@samhaskinmusic]

Not sure I follow the question. Do you mean in Ableton?

[@ozzelthecomposer5825]

@@samhaskinmusic No from MPC Live. Like there's program channels (outputs), pad channels (outputs), but I can't seem to find how to change the audio out channels for recorded audio in the MPC Live.

[@ozzelthecomposer5825]

Like how you get 4 audio tracks or whatever. How do you change the output for the audio channels?

[@samhaskinmusic]

@@ozzelthecomposer5825 In this video, since I used the plugin and was in controller mode, the outputs were virtual from the software--I wasn't using the analog outs. Ableton just sees it as a multi-timbral plugin, so when you designate which output you are using, the software does the routing for you as long as you have audio tracks listening for each output you used.

[@luigiavila6102]

DUDE you can do this?!? Thats whats good thats whats goooooood! No way to do this without the plugin and just a connection to ableton with usb?

[@samhaskinmusic]

No, unfortunately has to be in plugin/controller mode -- it's really just done as a multi-timbral VST.

[@nateluna2765]

@@samhaskinmusic Does the SD card need to read from the computer or can it be read from the MPC?

[@filipswiniarski7388]

@@nateluna2765 Up

[@Thepro-tf3ct]

What connections did you use for this? Did you just send it via USB from the MPC to the MPC software?

[@samhaskinmusic]

Yeah, this was just USB. I used the plugin version of the software inside ableton which is how I was able to pass each channel to an audio track

[@shps-djforma2980]

@@samhaskinmusic hi Sam theres a difference between MPC Beats and MPC2 plugin¿ ca i make the same thing with the mpc beats fotware too?

[@samhaskinmusic]

@@shps-djforma2980 I don't know much about MPC beats. This track isn't very complicated so you should be able to -- whether or not you can record it into Ableton afterwards though, I have no idea.

[@shps-djforma2980]

yes but are you using on this video the mpc software right? thanks in advance great video

[@samhaskinmusic]

@@shps-djforma2980 The plugin is just a VST version of the MPC software. It comes as part of the software install. I can't say if it comes with MPC Beats though.

[@iandavidson6530]

Hi Sam. Are you connected to the computer via usb or via midi?

[@samhaskinmusic]

USB. the MPC is in controller mode for this, even though it's playing a project I made in standalone.

[@NOererererererer]

3 years late but how are you able to play a project in controller mode ? Thanks man !