The difference between you and other you tube MPC tutors is that I can tell you’re actually a musician that has developed techniques over years of use. Other guys are just making generic tutorials, just to put out content, but they don’t actually make music, so they don’t have any original ideas. Thanks for this workflow tip. It’s very helpful.

I’ve been using a workflow like this on other hardware sequencers since the 1990’s. As a brand new MPC user (just got a Live 2) this video was exactly what I wanted to see. Thanks!

Whoop! Thank you for an alternative approach to making a song with one sequence that gets tweaked here and there. Also, I love dnb and appreciate the tip to begin with about 32 bars of a somewhat repetitive sound before adding more tracks/sounds!! Thanks!!!

Another nail in the ol' FL Studio Coffin!!! Just watching this workflow video I see some more things I can do like add in transition effects where I want. Thanks for this one. Now I see why the price on the used Stand Alone units isn't moving very much.

Thank you! I found this very useful and will be watching at least one more time to take it all in before walking through it while on my One.

Thanks for this, been wrapping my head around this box the last month. Love the workflow..

Great vid on the one sequence workflow. Exactly what I was looking for.

Cleared up a lot of general workflow issues I’m having. Nice work!

Thank you for yet another legendary video lesson !

Love your tutorials…very clear and informative

Just got the mpc one and these tutorials have been super helpful keep up the good work 💪.

That was awesome. MPC one arrives very soon and this has been a great help 🎵🎶❤️🙏

Needed this, thanks! I think this subtractive arranging is going to speed things up a lot.

how awesome this bass sounds super awesome!

you'r channel is a goldmine for beginner on MPC's, just thanks for your work!

This is a great tutorial even for the MPC LIVE II. Thank you.

MPC novice here, gave this a try today and it really did help get me out of ""loop mode". Thanks!

Amazing Video. This helps me alot. Thank you!

Brillant video. Thanks a lot for this!

Top Tutor more like this on the mpc one just subbed. Bought mpc one and need this may even have to book lessons! New sub

very insightful. learning a lot from this. Thanks for sharing!

So far your the most advanced mpc teacher I’ve seen on KZfaq… good stuff

I’ve only had my MPC One for a month and have been experimenting with different workflows. This though is THE workflow for me. Absolutely love it. Thanks man. 👏👏👏

A very timely tutorial, great explanation, this is going to be extremely useful... ✊🏻

Perfect thanks for this. I've spent time using Cubase, Logic and others and always in this format so great video to encourage me to go ahead and buy one of these!

lots of useful information for both beginner's and advanced mpc owners.

Good Video! I started doing that Process! It spreads up the Work Flow

I enjoyed your video nice work and well explained, looks like you need a lot of patience getting what you want.

Oh yes, the one sequence workflow was the key to produce better stuff. Especially using analog gear with external effects. The trasition between the sequences was very oft frustrating and sounds boring. The one sequence workflow gave me back the control over my projects. First I define a comfortable long sequence length. Than it is very helpful to use the start and end point setting in the sequence setting. You can loop there like the multi sequence workflow without losing the overview over the whole project. It is sometimes a little bit tricky in the beginning but worth it. Thank you for sharing.

Easily one of the better tutorials, pretty much how I used to build tracks on my MPC 1000 back in the day!

only started using my Mpc X in standalone yesterday, and it feels so refreshing to just work inside the box, and then your video came for recommendation, blessings brother 🙂

I always use 1 sequence for my tracks anyway. Thanks for the useful tip. Cheers

Nice, just bought an MPC One and this is a great little overview of some of the features. Interesting workflow too. More please. Subbed.

man, this opens up a new way to arrange songs for me. this vid is gold, sir!!!!

Hi, nice tutorial, thanks for sharing. I think i'm more a multi-sequence type of producer, however it's always good to check out and evaluate alternative approaches! Thanks for sharing, keep it up! :-)

I'm loving this.. I thought for a second, it was more of a GET THE CLICKS OUT, sound editing video... I Almost left the video, but I'm glad I didn't.. this is what I needed!!! I'm not new to sequencing, but this is a good workflow, makes sense!! Linier is my style, so this is GREAT!! I'm new to MPC, so I was doing intro, verse and hook together for transitions, then back to verse and hook... but this is Perfect!! I'll take it from here.. THANK YOU!! Liked. SUBBED!!

I just bought one of these and I have to say that it has kind of a steep logistical learning curve. That is, it's fairly easy to learn what everything does, but it's much harder to learn how to get to all of those things quickly and efficiently. If you just want to make some music, that's a drag. This is a really helpful video. Thanks for making it.

Peace Tube Digga. Good contents. May i add two very helpful tips to this? 1. Using the Qlink is a great way to move through steps especially when working in one sequence (1st Q LINK, Second knob from the top) touching the blue bar locator can be a little awkward, maybe cuz i got big fingers lol. 2.I think its much better to use the automation to mute and unmute stuff rather than deleting.Which is also very easy on the grid edit page.i say this because if you change your ming on some part you have the option to quickly put back what you muted. much more flexible hope you get where im coming from. Peace

Love your tutorials. You go deep!

thanks these vids make sense

great tut

I had been thinking of a way to work like this lately. I have come to a hybrid way of working where I use your method but still flash out a few sequences first. This works for more complex dnb songs. I would maybe work out 3-4 variations of bass leads for the main chorus / verses on different sequences ( mutes if needed ). Write an 8 bar intro with everything sound I want in it. I will then put these into song mode using the intro sequence for as how many bars I want for an intro, then use the 3-4 different sequences for as long as I want for the drop, then use the intro again for the breakdown part, and then do the same for second drop etc etc. Once I have a lose structure I convert to one sequence and work like you do above, taking out stuff, adding stuff and doing turn arounds etc

Great video man

I learned so much from you when I first had an MPC Live, having never owned an MPC before. I sold the Live and 'downgraded' to an MPC One a little while ago, which I prefer by a mile, and I'm not sure a week passes where I don't look up how to do something on your channel. Thank you mate.

Great video

Using track lengths different of the one of the sequence is also useful.

lovely

Great stuff. Practical, to the point, and very useful! You demonstrated so much more than just the single sequence idea and that's great. So many others assume or speed past certain steps but your close up shots and attention to details was very valuable. Akai resources are a joke IMHO. I feel the MPC has a steep learning curve and Akai are blind to this element.

You can do a lot more with automation when your whole track is in one sequence as well. I purposely convert my song mode songs to a sequence because of this. I may give this a try but I feel like it would take me more time for the way I work. I only use one sound per program per track.

Coming from Reason this is a game changer. I've been struggling to learn this new work flow and was struggling with "visualizing" the track.

Again the man without a face smashes the Akai tutorial..... every single one of your tutorials are immediately accessible... could you do a similar tutorial but sequencing and sampling external gear? (I know you kind of have already) but just in this similar workflow? 🙏

great overlay that

That made so much sense thank you! Do you have a vid that incorporates using banks for different sounds? Haven’t been able to find anything that clearly defines using the banks

Interesting method. Mine is a variation of this method Usually start with a 16 or 32 bar loop Il create the whole track in one sequence muting different sections. Once I'm happy il copy out that sequence. And utilise mutes to create each section. Bounce it to one sequence and record my automations.

Thanks for the video. Interesting approach. I suppose it would work if the entire piece is basically a set of variations of the same pattern, with occasional mutes and variations in effects. That’s what contemporary dance music is of course, so the MPC makes it easy to produce repetitive music, However I don’t see it working for songs, because they typically have 5 to 8 quite different sections (intro, verse, chorus, bridges, outro , alternative versions of verse patterns), each with a quite different rhythm pattern, baseline, chords, vocals. You would need a DAW or something like the Force or Maschine, where you can build and arrange a song from its different sections and record audio (vocals, guitar etc) across the full timeline.

I always record it live to Logic, adapt the BPM in Logic from my MPC sequence and cut it like i want. So u can mess around with filter etc and find happy mistakes.

Really nice tutorials! 👌 Considering taking a few skype lessons from you once my mpc live has arrived.. I‘m pretty sure I‘ll have questions 😅

Good explanation. But for me the next method of recording on my MPC is with the usb 32 channel output to a mixer and record off live each channel in a separate Daw like Ableton. The main reason I am keeping the MPC is the playability and jaming and sampling. quite frankly it really really sucks for song arrangement and all that jamming fee goes out the window. The song mode and sequencing on MPC is terrible, there isn't even a way to erase a sequence in the Next Sequence window. Once sequence is a way round this but its very slow and zero jamming feel.

Yeah, that is how I do it as I am coming from the mighty FL Studio. More agile than cueing many sequences.

Bonjour Peut on voir comme un séquencer type cubase ou autre,tous les conteneurs des différents instrument sur une même page pour pouvoir les déplacer? Et ainsi créer son mix

Thank you for uploading a very useful workflow. . I also love the nice top overlay. Was it specially ordered?

I've been using the 1 sequence since the 1k.

Hey sir and how would you mix the track ?

This would be a great workflow for me if you could manipulate a master track. I don't like having to repeat the process with each individual tracks. There should definitely be a master track view and the ability the effect all the tracks at once while in this midi view mode😕

Beautiful customization. Where'd you get the encoders? Thanks for this awesome vid!

Hey man help me please, acabo de adquirir el mpc once pero no puedo cargarle los plugins como el mini grand y el loom como lo hiciste?

Hey Mate, thanks for the video cool tips, love you channel. I like this workflow but I tried to use it and I get crashes often. My CPU and RAM bars goes very high which I guess is causing the issue. Do you have any tutorials or tips on how to reduce CPU and RAM low as you progress on a project? Also how to keep project clean and how to delete things like samples that you bring to the project but never used.

Cool article. I was just wondering why you didn't use the fade of the amp envelope in program mode instead of the destructive Flatting Pad and Fade Out as in the video. Any special reason for that?

Je débute sur MPC et c'est pas simple... je vais essayer cette méthode ^^ :)

I don't like multi sequence workflow either, but I struggled with this one sequence workflow without solving some problems: With a single sequence you can't create track loops, and it will be extremely hard to modify a drum/plugin track of 1/2 bars repeated when you already have a 128 bars sequence setup. I wanted to point out also that in your workflow you can also make the drum start without erasing, but simply with volume or mute automation. In this way, if you change your mind, you can alter the start point or intermediate points when you want to stop the drums without having to rewrite the notes on the track.

What I don’t understand is why didnt akai provide any multisample instruments like a nice piano, etc. to go with keygroup mode? Do you know where I can get a good multisampled piano for the One? Thx.

This has blessed me I'm new to production and just got my MPC one, it's intimidating but I determined to learn this 🙏🏽🙏🏽 God is faithful 🙏🏽 thank you for explaining I'm simple way

Coming from an old school Cubase / Logic background, this really helps. The simpler the better in my books😁. Tell me, when you save a project, does it save all the sample and programme settings with it?

I think I remember seeing another way which is very similar to what you demonstrated. but you take the main sequence of the song like you did, duplicate the sequences name them (intro, verse,verse2,chorus, etc), make all the changes to each sequence, them merge them all back together again as 1 full song sequence. An I THINK that option was in the song mode with the convert to sequence button after you put your sequences in order. So its very similar except it breaks it all up to mange each part of the seq then brings it all together again to modify the entire song.

Do you have Videos on creating multiple Sequences?

Excellent video. If you are using the same instrumentation from song to song is it possible to use sequence 2, 3.....etc to also hold complete songs and in this way have a whole set in one project. This would save time in waiting for projects to load. Anyone know any reason not to do this??

I like to create the song in one sequence then export the tracks to a DAW for mixing.

Could you expand on what you said at 0:42 regarding getting out of being stuck at a single loop

Great video! I really like the idea of this approach. Are midi notes chased / followed? Say for example, you start playback from bar 8 and have long notes (samples) that start on bar 4 and which carry on through bar 8 and beyond? And what if that note on bar 4 was only a short note but had a long delay echo or reverb tail that went past bar 8, would you hear that tail if starting playback from bar 8? I hope this question makes sense! It seems that for the approach outlined in this video it would be ideal to start playback from any point in the song and not have any note that preceeded that point cut off. Cheers.

Certainly an interesting workflow, but have you ever tried with 128 bars or more? MPC really struggles and the device becomes nearly useless in grid mode. When I hit pads, sometimes it takes up to 5 seconds to select all notes... so I guess I stick to the song mode ;)

Hi tube digga.How do u add plug-in into Mpc one? I saw there are over three more plug-ins in your device.Will you make a video for it? Thank you.

where can i get those sweet q-link caps / data dial from?

I have been trying this method of putting songs together and for me it's working out very well. I can't, however, find a way to save the swing value for each seperate sequence. Is this only a global setting for the project. Cheers.

If you wanted to add instruments/samples to make a chorus after youve created your 86 bar sequence, can you just go to say bar 24, set up your new track and program to lets say a string, and click overdub and record the string at bar 24 and end it at 32 and it will just stay there? Or will it populate the entire sequence. Thanks again for another great video def subscribed.

I do the same

Tell me if this is possible: 1. Can you make each sequence and infinite Loop? That would eliminate the need to specify the length. 2. Then assign each infinite loop to a pad? 3. Then record yourself "padding" as you please? That seems like a less stressful process. Can this be done?

Also is that a KS4? I have a KStation still, but that was The One!🤘🏽🤣

Mpc one. Created the whole song on one program. Is there a way to send them to different tracks to be able to play them with track mute?

Cool skin bro. Where did you get it from, or you made it yourself?

So, Mr TubeDigga. I like you white skin (on the MPC), not getting weird like “I like the shape of your skull” etc...🤞🏻So I just posted on an Ave McCree video this same question as you two got me up and running on this wonderful machine a year ago. So here’s the conundrum: I made a midi track when my sequence was 32 bars. It is 64 bars and now but my midi track is still doing a 32 bar loop. How do I “merge” it to become 64 bars so I can go pencil on it?

Hey I've recently put an MPC one on laybye iv got like 1 month left of payments then ill be hitting you up about courses involving 1on 1 tutoring and more can you help me decide what I want to do im going to be making hip hop so a course involving that would help, I've had a look on your website and can't decide because I'm not sure if the course comes with 1on 1 tutoring.

Great tutorial, still don't know whether to get the x or the one

Where did you get that MPC one skin??

my mpc got really slow when using this method, it crashed my today´s project :/ yes i´m pissed. great tutorials though

so he working in this way because MPC does not yet have the MPC force arranger view; but presumably this workflow will be null and void once the arranger view is added to MPC

The problem w this would be exporting the stems, correct?

where you get that one skin man!

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one like is not enough

Move start to the end and fade out. Obvious but was not using!!!!