Slice Motion is a GAME CHANGER for MPC Sampling!

Slice Motion is a GAME CHANGER for MPC Sampling!
The new MPC 3 public beta introduces a new feature called "Slice Motion," which allows a pad or key in a kit to randomly trigger different slices of a sample. Combined with the new ability to assign up to eight layers to a single pad or key, this means that you can have a HUGE variation of sounds set to a single piece of a kit. This allows for some very playable multisampled kits, and I can't wait to see what people do with this game changing feature! Enjoy the video :)
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[@Roguetrainer]

That’s the most natural sounding acoustic drum sample kit I think I’ve ever heard. If I wasn’t watching, I would have sworn you were just playing a full acoustic kit.

[@FreeBeat]

So glad you think so!!

[@Keltzzzz]

really nice sound it sounds live

[@vertigev]

Dude your finger drumming skills are next level..

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks so much!

[@PapaBPoppin]

First OneShot for iOS brings drum emulation to mobile (got a preset vid on my channel. I finger drum on an launchpad X, but not video of that up yet… but I got a cam this past week, so VERY soon that’ll change) Now MPC has its own style of doing it! I LOVE seeing this all happen in real time! Finger drumming keeps becoming more readily available!! My god, slicing a an 8 transient sample to randomized round robin…. 8 velocity layer 8 piece samples…. So brilliant Might need to get me an mpc…. 😅😅

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks for watching!!!

[@pablowentscobar]

This is slightly over my head. At first I was tying to figure out where you were going, but half way through, when you were talking about putting all the "Slices" on one pad and making them velocity chosen, it clicked. That's really cool and the different possibilities it opens really might be a game changer. Well done bro.

[@FreeBeat]

So the slices aren't triggered by the velocity, the samples themselves (that contain the slices) are. Think of it like this: if I hit a pad softly, I get a recording of someone saying a number that changes each time I strike the pad at that velocity. If I hit the last harder, I instead get a recording of someone saying a letter that randomly changes each time I strike the pad at that velocity. I can stack up to 8 of those at different velocities. Hope that helps, thanks for watching!

[@pablowentscobar]

@@FreeBeat That's kind of what I figured but you worded much better than I did. Thanks!

[@slowdeath3856]

Thanks for this. Created a monster acoustic kit from Superior Drummer samples. It sounds so much better than any of the other options out there. A couple of suggestions for anyone else that decides to do this: 1. Disk streaming is your friend. Otherwise you'll eat up your memory with about 5 pieces of kit. I have an SSD and I can have a full kit streaming from disk with no issues. YMMV with an SD card 2. I suggest you record your samples to a grid and then use bpm to slice. I had some issues with the transient detection that was a nightmare to troubleshoot, but once I used bpm it worked perfectly. 3. Copy and paste pads, then change the samples. You'll have to set the sample slice to 1 again to get slice motion active, but it'll save you a bunch of time when setting up the programs. 4. Once you get the kit set up and all the samples streaming you can save it as a template and it'll load fairly quickly.

[@FreeBeat]

Great tips, thanks!

[@peterburke579]

What was the process you used for making the original clip of 8 “tracks/hits” in SD? Wouldn’t just putting a snare midi note eight times give the exact same sound each time? Thanks for any advice!

[@slowdeath3856]

@@peterburke579 SD has round robin for same velo notes, so there is variety. It's probably not 8 levels of RR per drum, but without diving into the samples I couldn't know for sure so I just kept it at 8. I did a multitrack output of SD in my DAW and routed each drum to a different audio track. I turned off bleed for every channel. Added a midi clip that had all the drums being hit 8 times at each desired velocity. Exported those tracks into the MPC and used BPM to chop. The only annoying part was the cymbals since those all get routed to the overheads, so I had to do every cymbal one at a time.

[@FreeBeat]

@@peterburke579 I'm guessing that SD (just like the Neil Peart library I used), has a bunch of round robin style samples, so the same MIDI note repeated actually triggers slightly different sounds.

[@peterburke579]

Thanks to both of you guys for the quick reply. I’ll give it a go. This video example just sounds amazing!

[@hapexzm]

👀very clever. sounds super organic

[@FreeBeat]

Thank you!

[@kopiller]

this is sick, i hope they fix the voice allocation in the keygroups and this machine will become a crazy saampler

[@FreeBeat]

Yeah the potential is insane!

[@lextron-audio]

Amazing! Would love to see a full tutorial on this

[@FreeBeat]

I'll get working on one!

[@lextron-audio]

@@FreeBeat that would be amazing thank you 👌👍🙏🏼

[@TheMountAnalogueProject]

That’s awesome 🙌

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks for watching!

[@robertosantiagomp]

Amaizing ❤

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks so much!

[@pelvinsjamz]

This is the future! 😎👍🔥

[@FreeBeat]

Definitely seems like it!

[@2.Plus.2.Equals.5]

The ability to layer stuff is really slick

[@FreeBeat]

Yeah the sample layers plus round robin style slice motion is pretty huge!

[@alexeybelyasin6827]

really cool way to use slice motion feature!

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks so much!

[@georgesbahia]

Muito bom trabalho. Super travail. Bravo très Expressif

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@marcvallois8984]

Ok merci pour la vidéo 🙏 les sons de batterie sont très bons et très bon travail sur les pads 👏👍🙏 thank my friend

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks for watching!

[@cazalorganism7020]

You should be able to stream those samples from disk now in version 3 and save mad ram for other things.

[@FreeBeat]

Yep, I mention that in the video :)

[@PorchBass]

Best snare articulation I have heard ! Will the kit be available?

Good question, for sure I would buy.

[@levia2805]

The issue here is obviously that he doesnt own the samples, its from a drum sampler plugin so he cant legally sell those

[@PorchBass]

@@levia2805 good point. Bah humbug

[@FreeBeat]

This particular kit will not be one that I make available as the samples come from a paid library. However, I do intend on sampling my own drums in the future, and I will absolutely make those kits available!

[@PorchBass]

@@FreeBeat sounds like a good idea. The FreeBeat kit format!

[@CookingNoise]

Been wanting to do that with superior drummer onto my sp404mk2, not even close to as cool as this technique is!

[@FreeBeat]

I wish the 404mk2 had a feature like this!

[@Keltzzzz]

Reminds me of port maps for a router lol.

[@FreeBeat]

Haha yeah the interface definitely looks similar

[@Jusaboredguy]

This has me believing that they will release a more powerful MPC. No way that they will introduce these kind of features with no plans for the future.

[@FreeBeat]

Keep in mind that streaming from the SD card drastically lowers the RAM strain of this setup, but yeah I could definitely see a more powerful device coming in the future!

[@nicks.8003]

Round-Robin! I was hoping someone would touch on this. Previously you had to use layers 2-4 for variations and simultaneous pad for other pads with velocity differences. Pain. Akai stepped it up and I hope they start delivering some good libraries with this. Also, if RAM is an issue, it’s good to strip out any silence in the samples to keep them as short as possible. I notice each samples last hit has a bit of space after it.

[@nicks.8003]

You can use Audacity Macros to strip silence (you’ll need to re-slice the samples and re-assign them). Another RAM saver is you can change sample rate per sample. Kick drums rarely have anything above 8k, so 16kHz sampling is good and 1/3 the space/RAM.

[@FreeBeat]

Yeah there's a lot of optimization I could do to improve it, including streaming the samples straight from disk. Thanks for watching :)

[@wiggesobk]

That feature isn't actually that new. Even my old MPC 500 can do that (but only with 3 or 4 layers and without slice motion.) But it's still a cool feature. I've never used it because i mostly play it in full level lol. Great video. The drums sounds really nice and authentic.

[@FreeBeat]

Yeah the older MPC's could always do the 4 layer thing, but slice motion (and upping the layers to 8) is brand new in 3.0! Slice motion is what makes this work so well :D

[@wiggesobk]

@@FreeBeat yeah looks like a lot of fun haha

[@KingHanma]

This is fricken GENIUS. Can't get any more natural sounding imo. That's Amazing! Do you know how much ram exactly?......Wait a minute you can assign each sample to stream from disk now and it wouldn't take up hardly any ram at all...Right?😮

[@FreeBeat]

Yup haha you can now stream from disk, which I mention in the video, and I'll be setting that up in the future!

[@KingHanma]

@@FreeBeat 😆Sorry I missed that. Thats 🔥

[@slowdeath3856]

I did the streaming. It's a must.

[@themrworldwide]

Yeah it's really a cool feature,💯 you can use it on melodic samples as well and get some random chops ideas and see if it fits, but i think it's mostly designed for drums.

[@FreeBeat]

It can do some very cool stuff melodically as well!

[@FREELUV37]

Fire

[@FreeBeat]

Thanks!

[@morrritz]

Those drums sound amazing! Are you perhaps able to share the program and the samples?

[@FreeBeat]

Since these sounds come from a big paid library I won't be sharing them, but I'll be making kits with my own sounds in the future and I'll share those :)

[@morrritz]

@@FreeBeat I understand.

[@rasolzamini8678]

Try with disk streaming and let us know how tha ram showing ,great video

[@FreeBeat]

Yeah I definitely will!

[@jadigistudios]

👀 Can you share this kit?

[@morrritz]

Yes please do. Damn I need this!

[@FreeBeat]

I won't be sharing this kit, as the samples come from a big paid library, but I will be creating my own kits in the future!

[@Zhahlivy]

Nice idea, man! How did you trigger samples with one velocity?

[@FreeBeat]

By using slice motion :) each different sample is sliced up into 8 slices, and those are randomly triggered when that sample is played.

[@hvhvgitaar]

Wow!!! How is the latency when using the e-drum kit with the MPC?

[@FreeBeat]

I haven't tried it with the full kit yet, but as you can see it's pretty dang solid with the SPD-SX!

[@hvhvgitaar]

@@FreeBeat oh yeah!

[@krazywabbit]

I must admit, I cringed at the use of game changer. However you did a very nice job demonstrating a great feature. I saw a video where someone upgraded their RAM to 4gb. I believe that’s as high as you can go (it’s not for the average person to do) While this is a cool feature, it hamstrings the device and Akai should rework their architecture to support more RAM and unlock an even powerful machine.

[@FreeBeat]

Keep in mind that we can now stream from the disk, so this should be much more efficient in the future if I set it up that way :)

[@krazywabbit]

Ah. Thanks for that. Time to open the wallet 😄

[@AntonMochalin]

Does the impression really suffer if you use say 3 sounds for each layer instead of 8?

[@lunaticcalm29]

This is a really cool trick, but like you said, it seems like an absolute PITA to setup.

[@FreeBeat]

It was definitely a PITA, but also totally with it!

[@amconsole]

A lot of work. You would however need to set it up only once. Then save it as a drum program and load it up any time You need acoustic sounding drums.

[@FreeBeat]

Yup, exactly!

[@originaljungle]

can't you trigger them slices randomly on the mpc as well?

[@FreeBeat]

What do you mean?

[@Jukau]

This is not a kit you can still buy right?

[@FreeBeat]

You can purchase the Neil peart Kontakt Library still I believe

[@uptownfragrance6148]

What so amazing about this just layer the drums it's not this complex to do.

[@FreeBeat]

It's the slice motion that makes this so awesome, wasn't possible until the update!

[@whistletom]

With slice motion you get random round robin per velocity layer. This stops what's known as the machine gun effect.

[@certifiedbeatz]

I think it's time to retire the title game changer 😅😅

[@FreeBeat]

I think it might actually apply here though!

[@duncan-rmi]

>now trying to work out if the same combination of velocity layering & slice selection could be made to work as pseudo round-robin on 1010 blackbox

[@FreeBeat]

I'm not super familiar with the Blackbox, but I think it can do something *sort* of similar?

[@duncan-rmi]

@@FreeBeat it supports loading multisample sets with velocity & key mapping embedded (in the file names, so not a tricky or esoteric process), & I believe there are a number of ways to modulate slice position. just not sure if these actions can be performed on the same set at the same time. will have a look later. recent update from 1010 means that the blackbox can support a great many more sample slots in a project than before- it's several hundred now, in line with the.. um... tangerine, is it?