So, you can’t really change the pitch on a drum track, like on a tone track. They make it easy on tone tracks to hold a step and the screen pops up and you can change the note. That is option not available in the screen for the drum tracks. But, I guess you could assign one of the 3 track knobs to coarse tune, and through motion step edit, change pitch per step that way.
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I will add that the motion step edit is a little fiddly, or, it just doesn’t work how I think it should, or maybe I just haven’t unlocked the secret yet. If I want to for example, change the pitch of a kick drum, it seems to me that if I hold down that step, and adjust the pitch, that it should affect it for just that step. But what happens is that it keeps that value, for all of the following steps, even after the sequence starts over. So I have to go to the following step, and change the value back to original value, so that it only affects the step I want it to. That second part seems a little necessary, but maybe it is all part of it being a “motion” recorder?
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Well that might be good enough for what I would want to do. Something like melodic toms but without having to use up five drum tracks to achieve. One last question, you get three motion options per drum part? Thanks for all your insight!
You get three motion parts per track. The three knobs above the volume slider, and they can be configured to various things, but not everything. So if it is an entire drum rack, then it is those three motion motion effects for the entire rack. But you can filter say, just the toms, or add reverb send to just the hats, and you could set a reverb send to both. And then you can get in there and step edit the motion per part as well.
That’s limited but better than nothing. Thanks again.
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Not a problem.
This is the same way parameter locking works on the TR-8S (apart from velocity/accent). The parameter change is not reverted on the next step, you have to manually set the following step back to the “normal” value.
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Can a sample be chopped up like an MPC?
It’s more midi cc style than p-lock style. It can be annoying but it’s not uncommon and it makes sense from a midi point of view. TR8S is similar.
Yeah, the Circuit works like that as well… it’s a bit annoying when you’re used to the Elektron way.
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No, there is no slice or chop feature.
I wonder if that could happen in an update later on…?
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are there even sample start and end point parameters?
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I am not sure about that. I am sure it is going to be a big feature request. It would be great if you could slice it up to 16 slices, and then save it as a drum rack.
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There has been an update for 707 I think
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Yes, there are start and end parameters. There are some other parameters too, like time stretch end point, and scale/measure of a sample. But, you can’t sequence a loop. It just loops. So if you shorten a loop by adjusting the start and end point, it will time stretch, or pitch (depending on your settings) to fill the measure of a loop. You can also set step length for a clip. To me, they all seem adjust how the clip will pitch/speed/length, and things like that. I haven’t had the time to play with them much though, so for better explanations, check the reference guide.
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Yes, there has been an update. They added the a few new features, and a handful of shortcuts. Unfortunately, no slice mode yet.
You should be able to do that with a drum track. Each drum track you can load up to 16 samples and sequence them. I think I read the time limit for samples loaded to drum and tone tracks is something 6 minutes stereo, 12 minutes mono per project? But as I mentioned above, you can swap out clips, and sound presets/kits in real time. And the looper tracks are 60 seconds total per project.
UPDATE HISTORY
[ Ver.1.02 ] SEP 2019
Additional Functions
Please refer to the “MC-707 Update” for detailed information in the [ Owner’s Manuals ].
- A CUE function was added.
- A TONE STEP EDIT function was added.
- Waveforms were added to Motion Designer.
- A SCATTER function was added.
- A Metronome function was added.
- A Step Loop Mode was added.
- An automatic setting function for LOOPER clips was added.
- Shortcuts were added.
Bug Fixes
The following bugs were fixed.
- Minor bugs have been fixed.
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we need an arpeggiator in a future update…
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