I just use the MPC to trigger the MC707 but today I’ve been doing a bit sampling into the MPC. It has far superior editing tools IMO
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umm, no, I was thinking you would prep the slices with your blackbox? They read the same cards? no?
I’m going to be editing my samples with the MPC
Ok, hope so. I actually found a 101 pack made by DJ Paypal himself!
Didn’t expect that!
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Very cool. I recently acquired an MPC Live and a 1TB drive, and I plan on using the auto sample feature as a way to basically craft my own groovebox.
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I had the same idea but not the time and energy to do that… that’s why I got the 707
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Ah no, micro SD on BBox. Close, but not close enough.
But sample editing’s easy enough on the 707 so it’ll work.
Auto sampling the MC-707 from the MPC X is really fun, building custom patches and layering stuff is fab too…
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can’t you use a microSD adapter?
Surely some synergy benefits for owning blackbox and 707 must exist
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And I had my first random freeze this morning… can’t really recommend the product to anyone at this point. Just wait for a better firmware everybody.
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Yep, that could work, though possibly just working the sample right in the Blackbox and then sampling it directly into the 707, might just be easier.
The BBox is superior for long loops, the granular fx is very cool and the way it’s built around clips, like the 707, make them an interesting match.
For now, however, I don’t need it to move forward, so it’s currently resting while I learn the 707. I love how fluid it is to put things together, once you’ve geled with it. The intergration between scenes, the sequencer, the scatter track, clips and muting of both tracks and drum voices, works a treat to mix things together really quickly, once you got an idea going.
Still watching this thread with interest, I find actual user experiences much more useful than sycophantic youtube synth shill glossovers, which strangely never seem to mention any of these seemingly glaringly obvious and quite important issues, and just focus on features and selling it.
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If you takeway the meh synth engine and presets youve actually got quite a good looper and fx box in a small package(101). Not too much menu diving for these features as well.
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I’m trying to make custom kits on the MC-707 but can’t figure if you can exchange drum sounds on the pads… anyone know if it can be done or am I stuck with the kits… must be missing something here.
Cheers
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Thank you for the your input.
What do you think this Vs sp-404.
For sample playback (loops)
Not a live looper.
Thanks!
another user review
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on the 101, you press SHIFT + pad to enter pad edit. Not sure if the procedure is the same on the 707.
I’ve been messing with my 101 some more, checking out the fx a lil more. Some of the fx are quite good, and I like the sound of the sampler… something about it reminds me the way the MPC 4000 sounds. Its a sort of smoothness, hard to put into words exactly.
I kinda wish the resampling features were a bit more advanced - would be great to be able to “flatten to pad” quickly like on my MPC. Right now, I’d have to make a clip with the desired composite sound starting on the first step, have a spare looper track, resample into it, save the loop as a wav file, and then reimport that wav file into a new drum pad… quite a convoluted process, which requires a free looper track (with only 4 tracks, this is a big ask)…
But can someone tell me how to copypaste clip content (MIDI notes)? Guessing the Roland terminology would be COPY PHRASE? I’m very used to the “duplicate bar” workflow as on the elektrons and MPC live, and right now I don’t know how to extend a 1 bar loop into 8 bars without having to manually recreate the 1st bar seven times… doing my head in, grr!
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Select a drum pad to edit. Once in that mode, press Enter. You can now select your own custom samples to edit and even edit those samples, for primitive manual slicing and stuff. You can even eq each pad and stuff in this mode.
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Don’t know about the 101, but on the 707 there’s a copy option right at the right of the screen. Then you paste and get asked if you want to paste the phrase, the sound or both.
To duplicate one bar press [func] + [measure >] you can keep doubling every time until your clip is 128 steps long (16 -> 32 -> 64 -> 128)