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MCP One + Modular Gear (using CV controls with Eurorack)
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4 жыл бұрынPlaying around with using the MPC with my modular gear - using the built in cv outs on the MPC One. There are 8 total cv outs, but I'm only using 4 of them - because you need a stereo splitter to access the other ones (which I don't have). Still great to see how easy it was to use.
Main modular units:
Dreadbox Drips
SSF Entity Percussion Module
Dreadbox Drive
WMD Pole Zero
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@caseybeach3935 3 жыл бұрын
Dude this is dope. I was having such a hard time picking a new sequencer for all my gear. Between this and a couple other videos, this is the one. I didn't realize it could be used as a great sequencer. I'm new to mpc, just usually old fashion synth stuff
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
👌👌👌
@Husmanmusic 3 жыл бұрын
You just made me love my mpc one again!
@synaptyx 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this, I was on the fence about selling the MPC One, but this has made me decide to keep it.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
💚💚💚
@NicleT 3 жыл бұрын
Very cool groove! Thank you for the demo.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@stevemountford3707 3 жыл бұрын
MPC one is an amazing unit. I’m using it as an alternative to my usual Cubase and Ableton setups. It gives a great blend of instant access of hardware without any major compromise. Your video was really useful - please make more videos with the MPC one and your external gear.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
I was just borrowing it - don't actually own it.
@chloestratton9666 Жыл бұрын
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@Gorimental 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this! I didn't even know how Cv/Gate it works. I was very confused about MIDI and CV/Gate. I just bought a MPC One and I have a MicroBrute and a MicroFreak. So I'll try to connect them together.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@tiny333333 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the cool demonstration
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
✌️✌️
@InderNett4tube 3 жыл бұрын
03:40 regarding pitch range - easy to understand reason: The MPC can only output CV ranges from 0V to 5V, no negative CV and not more than 5V. For "normal" CV (velocity, modulation etc.) this is typically enough, but pitch needs more to get more than 5 octaves with 1V/octave. The MPC pitch CV is internally mapped to C1 ... C6 with C1 sending 0V. Eurorack normally uses 0V for C3. So there might be a 2 octave pitch shift on top of the limited range. Normally this should not be that big tragedy, because typical synth keyboards have no higher rage either and pitch shifting is easy to correct by an octave switch.
@27arches 2 жыл бұрын
Very helpful advice here thanks!
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
✌️✌️ good suggestions
@pierluigisalsano172 3 жыл бұрын
Molto bravo! Bello il tutto ricerca copresa
@brainbox9219 Жыл бұрын
Nice, drum modules seem to be something neat to get into
@PinkBuddhaAcademy Жыл бұрын
They can be amazing for sound design.
@djgocatgo 6 ай бұрын
i want a Malekko Voltage Block so bad but after watching your video I will hold off for a while and dig deeper into the Mpc One… just ordered some splittercables to get the most out of it.. Great explanation.. Mpc One is a beatcreating monster and takes off where the Keystep pro gets stuck in a way.. They’re complimentary in many aspects though. Thanks again
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 5 ай бұрын
✌️😎
@F_letc.h 3 жыл бұрын
Nice tutorial. Thanks for the pointers. The Akai MPC X, CV video, says only certain banks can be used for CV, so it was designed that way. Also, if you want to get more out of your four CV outs, you should be able to resample the audio of whatever module you’re currently working with, and after you’ve captured the audio, you can use all four outs for a different module.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I would only try to use the or just for some things that would be best manipulated lire
@theorize999 Ай бұрын
I like your style brother
@cjbcarr1 Жыл бұрын
This is awesome!!
@PinkBuddhaAcademy Жыл бұрын
😎✌️
@ogami1972 10 ай бұрын
Just found this older video, but throwing in my two cents any way: using an mpc with your modular is fantastic, kind of like a beatstep on steroids, especially if your modular case has a midi I/O as well.. Aside from the usual internal sequencing, I use the mpc to: send divided and multiplied clock tracks, start and stop external sequencers (crave, especially) and modulate all the things. Modular is pretty ethereal (at least, my setup is), in that once you have a "sunday unplug-day", it's unlikely you'll ever find exactly the same sound again, but it's nice to have the gate and cv data recorded. Good video, I'll check out your newer stuff.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 10 ай бұрын
Great thoughts...thanks for commenting
@jamiestewart1644 2 жыл бұрын
Great demo. I'm looking for something that can provide a solid backbone to hang more experimental modular stuff from. This looks like the thing! Currently using a Roland 505 but for very similar money - this looks like it's replacement and so much more. Sometime CV can cross through cables. That can cause weird and possibly unwanted results.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
Have you considered the Force? Has CV too. And is a better MIDI sequencer as well, IMO.
@ivyriley2916 3 жыл бұрын
Good stuff!
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
🍟🍟🍟
@MidiFister 3 жыл бұрын
tomorrow my mpc one and erica synths drum sample arrive, and im so curious how much it can do together - but i am also expecting i will still need some external lfo module. this video is quite fitting for specifically what i feel like doing next
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@vveerrgg416 4 жыл бұрын
part of my love hate relationship with Modular is that it's the long way around to making some epic stuff... but then near the end there. THAT SOUNDS PERFECT. But ... still cool to watch. Keep making Force content... IMHO its an under-rated machine
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 4 жыл бұрын
lol....that's so true about modular. It's slow, but the sound sculpting usually pays off.
@electroforez 4 жыл бұрын
Yep ! Hoping for Force content too, it was really great ! Especially need a video about MIDI tracks. Maybe after the release of the new firmware ? (if it eventually happen...)
@sawssman965 Жыл бұрын
That ended up sounding badass tho
@PinkBuddhaAcademy Жыл бұрын
😎✌️
@jamessusbilla 2 жыл бұрын
thank *YOU*
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
👌👌👌
@312dasbkilla 2 ай бұрын
Dope. Could I do the same thing with the Moog matriarch. Waiting on one to come in
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 ай бұрын
Yes!
@aoutivd 3 жыл бұрын
Just got my mpc working with my rack. The grid drawing cv is pretty wild. I’m using it to trigger plaits models and in not much time am able to select exact models. What does the modwheel setting do though? Can’t find anything on it.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
Didn't try that
@dubmaverick69 2 жыл бұрын
If we could only have CV Inputs on the Akai MPC's so we could use other CV modules to modulate it, that would be a game changer, have all your samples and multi samples modulated by external CV's is final frontier. There is really no sampler out there that has CV in and outs, maybe Iridium but too expensive. One shot samples and the editing work on these Eurorack CV modules is daunting. Maybe the best way for now is to get DC coupled In Audio interface and load all the samples and multi samples in your DAW sampler then we talking some sonic possibilities.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
✌️ good thoughts
@deepreach7821 9 ай бұрын
Nice! Thanks for the explanation. Just so I'm not wasting any time and money. Is it necessary to have a 'gate' module first for all this to work? Could I just snap up a Behringer Abacus and just putz with that to get my feet wet? Appreciate the insight and time.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 8 ай бұрын
Gate modules are always useful! But budget and space are always the challenge you run up against.
@tattooedballoon3766 2 жыл бұрын
Hiya, this is a really good demo, do you know if it work in a similar way with an old Roland SH101 please? Cheers, great demo 👍
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
I think so...? 🤷♂️
@Inthemeantimeiwander 3 жыл бұрын
Do you know if the MPC One could control a Moog DFAM; sequence it like a crazay crazay drum machine, via CV?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
You def could. Although the dfam as unusual cv controls.
@Abakhan 4 жыл бұрын
Hi! Your contents are very interesting... What is this modular synth?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 4 жыл бұрын
These are an assortment of percussion modules.
@jenniferw8963 2 жыл бұрын
Woudln't it be cool if you could use MPC One as a beat sync'd envelope generator? And send the enevelope modulation over a cv out? Like Pamela's Workout does, would be so awesome.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
YES!
@jenniferw8963 2 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Imagine having another type of step sequencer mode. Where you press the pad corresponding to the beat and then turn a knob to adjust the note value or voltage amt for modulation. As is, it's so backwards having to select the "note pad" and then specify what beats that correspond to that note. It shoudl be press the beat, then select the note. So that could be like another different mode. Also what about entering in notes in play mode like you can do on the Mother 32/crave/303? They could add that feature as well. There is so much the MPC could do for eurorack with that big display all those buttons/pads and 8 cv/gates out.
@MidiFister 3 жыл бұрын
one thing i have been trying to figure out, is i use MiRack on ipad (basically vcv), and have wondered how i could send cv to/from mirack and my modular gear (such as behringer nuetron, to keep the example as easy as possible, although that has midi and doesnt totally justify the question)
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
There's device by (can't remember company - they make a midi ring) that's a cv generator. Takes midi via Bluetooth from your iPad or the ring and friends it into cv
@MidiFister 3 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy interesting, I’ll try to hunt it down.
@dorianb4774 4 жыл бұрын
Admitting the kick is a sample from the MPC, is there a way to assign its trigger to a Gate out ? Having some events triggered by a kick (or snare, HH,...) from the MPC on a modular would be really nice.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 4 жыл бұрын
I don't believe a note can be internal AND external at the same time. You'd have to just copy the notes and paste to a track that sent out cv. Done that many times before. Kind of pain of you change things. But then again, you could have slightly different notes by having two tracks. So there's that
@dorianb4774 4 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Thanks!
@gatorgoforth3097 3 жыл бұрын
Link those two tracks.
@sonicultura 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! So you can send all those CVs and Gates from the same track?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@CroomMusic 3 жыл бұрын
Not sure if my question makes sense ...but if you have a piano-roll midi loaded into the mpc one -- can you cv out to trigger a modular poly synth?
@distortimus7631 3 жыл бұрын
Yes. You can record or write MIDI notes (same as in a DAW).
@l1fef0rm 2 жыл бұрын
Quantizer should fix your pitch issue no? Also, does your interface have more than two outputs? Use additional outs to send to MPC inputs for resampling, route in interface software. Cool vid and I hope you don't mind the tips but it does seem it would streamline your workflow.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
Interface doesn't really. But you can run eurorack into line instrument, just got to REALLY turn down the volume
@yzimsx 3 жыл бұрын
What kind of a mixer do you have here, where does all the sound go to, and do you have a compressor or other effects there? I just got an MPC One to fill in a spot in a "DAWless" setup, and I'm trying to get a feeling of how I want it all to work. So far my main idea is to bring in "outboard" (relative to the MPC One) signals via a small mixer and compressor into the MPC One's inputs, and use the MPC One as the final master output.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
That would work!
@yzimsx 3 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Yeah, except now that they released the V2.10.0 software with external audio interface support, input/output limitations were blown away.
@Digiphex 4 жыл бұрын
Can you process the audio out of the modular with MPC effects?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 4 жыл бұрын
You could...if you routed the modular audio back into the mpc
@Digiphex 4 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy It seems like the new MPC with the speaker will be able to be your modular speaker and apparently sounds decent.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 4 жыл бұрын
I tried it. Speaker sounds like shit. And it's really in the way, i did a video comparing the new mpc live and the force. You should check it out.
@Jonathan_Doe_ 3 жыл бұрын
How hard is it to sample the audio out from the synths back into the mpc then assign the samples/sequences to pads? Looking into one because by the time I’ve bought logic or reason, a decent audio interface and a midi to cv converter, it’d be at least halfway to the price of a live 2, with all the added distraction of the internet being a click away on my laptop!
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
Not hard at all. But....I would never really want to try and finish a whole track on this, or the Force, whatever. Standalone. Because you're basically just using a tiny computer (and tiny screen) to finish pieces. Can't use any 3rd party plugins, etc. Hear you on the distractions. Have totally just considered getting a computer that I use *strictly* for music (no other programs), but invariably, I have to use the internet eventually. Fighting distractions is one of the hardest things ever.
@Jonathan_Doe_ 2 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Cheers for the reply man, only just noticed it now I’m looking up how to do things on it 😂. I hear you about the plug ins but there’s always sending stems out into the box to mix once you’re close 🤷🏻♂️
@eduardoleon1918 3 жыл бұрын
is there a way to send envelope shapes from the cv ports?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
Sort of. You'd have to draw the shape you want. Create a clip with that data going out.
@edjefferson9175 3 жыл бұрын
Can the knobs on the MPC be mapped to CV and movement be recorded as automation? And I think your cv voltage problem would be fixed by using the T/R/S splitter cables instead of standard T/S cables. That is why you are having "weird electrical problems". You are shorting ports 1+5, 2+6, 3+7 and 4+8 together. You could try inserting the patch cables only part in way to the MPC. So it clicks just one time as you insert it.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
I don't have the MPC anymore (was just borrowing it), but if it still works like the Force does, you can map the knobs to CV controls.
@davehouse78 3 жыл бұрын
CV is such a good addition to the MPC. I've found a strange behaviour though - possibly a bug - and I wonder if anyone can help. On a CV Track CV Mod parameters don't follow the track length but notes and velocity in the same track do. Eg I have a Sequence of 32 bars and a CV Track with a length of 5 beats (I dig the polyrhythms!) The melody and velocity are sent via CV1-3 (pitch, gate, velocity) and loop over 5 bars. However, a Mod envelope on the same track going out CV4 will loop over 32 bars (ie, it follows the sequence length, not the track length). Am I misunderstanding the setup or is this deliberate behaviour? Or a firmware bug?!
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
The thing about CV, is that you're dealing with electricity - and that can always get a bit squirrely. Very different than sending things out via MIDI and then getting a MIDI to CV converter (which is honestly what I might recommend).
@davehouse78 3 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy that's true, but it seems slightly odd as if the MPC can loop the CV mod at the end of the sequence I'd have thought it could do so at the end of a track. It's doing that for pitch and velocity CV anyway, plus its capable of having the CV mod values jump all over the place within the sequence, so it's not like it has to sync LFOs etc. Oh well! I'm sure it's more complicated than that!
@jupitor919 3 жыл бұрын
Is there a way to output a sync signal or clock, so one could trigger a sequencer module?
@keivkeiv 2 жыл бұрын
via midi yes. also could send notes to trigger a tempo
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
Yes midi or cv too
@gatorgoforth3097 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe the cv output is doing negative voltages on banks A and B
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
🤷♂️
@Jonathan_Doe_ 3 жыл бұрын
No it’s probably just keeping the note range of each bank consistent between midi and CV? I can see the logic: If you were on one track hooked up to a CV instrument, and it transposed the first bank upwards into CV range... If you then switched over onto another track hooked up to an internal instrument, or an external midi instrument... It’d produce some insane lows that might mess your speakers up. Midis capable of more octave range than 5v v/Oct.
@RaverOperatorGeeza 3 жыл бұрын
How does it work with a pocket operator connected to an MPC, could you do a video on that?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
I would...but I don't own this. Was just borrowing it
@RaverOperatorGeeza 3 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy ok bud, no worries, I'm gonna try hooking mine up today... Thanks for the video already 👍👍
@PhatMc Жыл бұрын
Im bout to connect a yammaha emx 200 mixer how much would an outboard set up like rhat cost ? And what cords do i need to connect my mixer to my mpc one ?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy Жыл бұрын
You mean these modular units?
@PhatMc Жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy yea bro what one should I start with do you buy the mods in any sertain order how much is it for the set up in the vis
@PhatMc Жыл бұрын
For the whole euro rack
@bloodyshrine1369 3 жыл бұрын
How are you getting the sounds from the Mpc one to your mobile? Do you have some type of adapter?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
to my mobile what? my mobile phone?
@bloodyshrine1369 3 жыл бұрын
Pink Buddha No, I really meant your mobile trailer park home.
@emesen_ 2 жыл бұрын
Your mpc is not able to output negative voltage. Which is why you get a few groups of unchanged cv
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
Oh...interesting!
@deathtripper6476 2 жыл бұрын
What was that splitter you were talking about? Does it basically add another cv channel? Can you post a link to an example? Cheers already!
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
Yes…I believe it’s a stereo to mono splitter. But double check that
@adrianmccombe625 3 жыл бұрын
Is there any way just to send CV clock out from the MPC. I have a live I'm hooking upto a kastle drum.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
mmmm....sort of. You have to just send out gates. And that can act as a clock. It's kind of a pain, but also presents some opportunities. i.e. that you could have an irregular clock, just by varying your notes. Like have steady quarter notes coming, but every once in a while, you stop them or have eighth notes instead.
@adrianmccombe625 3 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy thanks for this. I've got a keystep pro so sync that with the MPC and used the clock out from there. It's working well. I am going try this though 👍
@pierluigisalsano172 3 жыл бұрын
Ragazzo!! Mi sono iscritto!!
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
🍓
@SunsetRC 2 жыл бұрын
Great video, I was looking for an MPC to Eurorack setup and this is perfect. BTW, can you share which Eurorack case you are using? Looks really nice. Thanks.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
It's a sweet case...but EXPENSIVE. It's the Erica synths case.
@That__Guy 11 ай бұрын
the answer to "why modular" is always "knobs"
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 11 ай бұрын
🤣✌️🏆
@guysmiley7289 4 жыл бұрын
Do you use the reverse envelope on the Entity ?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
No - just used an LFO on the filter.
@guysmiley7289 3 жыл бұрын
@@PinkBuddhaAcademy ah I think it does sidechain ducking
@neolojism 3 жыл бұрын
Have Akai solved the hum problem yet?
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
Not sure. I've found its all about trying to find the right electrical grounding in my great and outputs
@els1f 3 жыл бұрын
1:52 why?! The only question is why not 😄
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
haha....✌️
@MyRosalindaa 4 жыл бұрын
nice vid man, but smth is wrong with your video quality, looks like 144p even on 1080p
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 4 жыл бұрын
Working on it
@SnaFOo75 3 жыл бұрын
too bad cv outs dont shoot out midi clock
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 3 жыл бұрын
You can....the "clock" is just a beat. So you could send out 16th notes, quarter notes, whatever. It just uses up one of the CV slots.
@BOORCHESS 2 жыл бұрын
At 12 minutes you mention recording the session to Ableton. Could you not press record and record everything you are doing to an audio track(s) in the MPC ? While you are tweaking / Playing ? Pretty critical for me to jump in.
@PinkBuddhaAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
Yes...that's possible to a point. Depends upon how to configure the routing. And more possible now that you could use an external interface to record modular stuff into MULTIPLE tracks at the same time.
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