Go to SAVE (SHIFT and ENTER) and under ‘ Type’ select ‘ Save a Sequence’, under ‘ File’ select ‘ 02-PT-FINAL’.Ĭhoose ‘ MIDI FILE TYPE 1’ and hit SAVE (F5).
The MPC2000/XL saves all its files in standard MIDI format by default. Under ‘ Type’, select ‘ SAVE A SEQUENCE’ and under ‘ Item’ select ’ 02-PT-FINAL’. Go to DISK (MODE and pad 3), select SAVE (F2) and choose a location to save the file. The MPC5000 only saves in standard MIDI file format. Select the save type as ‘ Mid’, giving you a standard MIDI file. Press DO IT to show the ‘save a sequence screen’: Change ‘Save’ to ‘ Sequence’, and ‘Item’ to ’ 02-PT-FINAL’. This will save your sequence as a standard MIDI file. Hit DO IT (F6) to bring up the ‘Save A Sequence’ screen: Go to SAVE (MODE and pad 3) and in the top left of the screen, select ‘ Save: A SEQUENCE’.
Hit DO IT (F6) to bring up the ‘ Save A Sequence’ screen: Under ‘ To:’, save to the folder you currently have all your tutorial files for this book. Go to SAVE (MODE and pad 3) and under ‘ type’ select ‘ SAVE A SEQUENCE’. Depending on your MPC, now do the following: MPC1000/2500 (Akai OS) Instead, you have just standard MIDI events, such as note value, velocity, duration, etc.įor this part of the tutorial, we’ll create a standard MIDI file of sequence 2 of our ‘LIVE’ project – so load up that project and select sequence 2 ( PT-FINAL). So, no q-link events, no filter/attack/tuning/decay events, no program or effect bank changes etc. So what is standard MIDI file format? Well, it’s an MPC sequence file with all the MPC –specific stuff stripped out. Live will let you import MIDI data from any sequencer as long as it is in standard MIDI file format, and luckily, all MPCs give you the option to save individual sequences in standard MIDI file format. So how do we transfer this MIDI data directly to Live? Well it’s actually quite easy. Now select sequence 2 – this sequence has bass, piano and fx MIDI events already recorded on tracks 4, 5 and 6, with drums provided on tracks 1-3 using an MPC drum sample program (PT-KIT.pgm). In your MPC, load up the ‘ LIVE’ project – to do this, find the folder for your MPC model and either load up the LIVE.PRJ file (newer MPCs) or load up the APS and ALL files (MPC2000XL or older) or AKM files (MPC4000). In Live, load up the ‘ MIDI Tracking.als’ session file from the ‘ Live Project Files’ folder this is our 80 BPM project which contains three Live instrument tracks bass, piano, and fx, and an audio track containing the stereo drum clip we tracked over to Live as pure audio in chapter 5. So, rather than have the MIDI data played within your MPC, we’ll simply shift that MIDI data directly to the relevant instrument track in Live in the form of a self contained MIDI clip remember, a Live instrument track is just a MIDI track that outputs to an instrument plug in. To do this, we need to transfer the actual MIDI event data we’ve recorded on tracks 4, 5 and 6 in sequence 2 of our MPC ‘LIVE’ project – these are the MPC sequencer tracks that trigger the Live instrument sounds, as set up in chapter 2 of this book.
Basically now that we’ve used the MPC to initially create the MIDI performance, we’re now cutting the MPC completely out of the equation so our entire beat is contained within Live.
Throughout the book we’ve used the MPC to send MIDI messages to Live to trigger Live’s software instruments – now instead of triggering it from the MPC, we’re going to simply ‘extract’ the MIDI data from the MPC and store it within Live MIDI tracks. Importing MIDI into Live as MIDI ClipsĪs well as importing MPC sample based tracks into Live audio tracks (as covered in chapter 5 of the book), we can also transfer MPC MIDI data from any MIDI tracks you may have in your MPC song/sequence. Please note this tutorial requires Ableton Live 8.13 or greater to function correctly. At this point, I’ve already tracked the drum beat as audio into a Live audio track and now its time to transfer the MIDI. Please note that previously in the book, I’ve already created an MPC project (called ‘Live’) which consists of a sequenced sample based drum beat and three MPC MIDI tracks that control three different software instruments in Live. In this excerpt from chapter 6 of my MPC & Ableton Live Tutorial book, ‘ Using The Akai MPC With Ableton Live‘,I’m going to take a look at a method for bringing your MPC MIDI data into Live as an imported MIDI clip, which is an alternative to the method of manually tracking MIDI data via MIDI sync (which is covered in detail later in the book).