Kontakt sampler Patch#
Kontakt sampler software#

Kontakt sampler Patch#

Then again, if your plugin has world class reverb you might decide it’s worth the risk leaving it on the patch because the ‘internal’ MPC reverbs are admittedly not that great.Įffects like chorus and phasers can introduce a lot of stereo movement which may or may not represent an issue when it comes to tuning and looping your multisamples, but if you feel these effects are an important part of the original sound that you want to capture then you should probably leave them in. So if you want to use that patch in a song and realise it sounds too ‘wet’ there’s not much you can do about it as the ambience was permanently recorded into the audio. If you record samples with ambience already added you are ‘stuck’ with that level of ambience on your resulting program.

Delays, chorus and phase can also cause a number of issues when tuning your samples and sustain looping, so I will often disable these effects as well. It’s better to have the flexibility of adding ambience to the final instrument program rather than having it permanently ‘baked’ into the samples themselves.

Now it’s usually a good idea to multisample patches as ‘dry’ as possible that means disabling any ambience effects such as reverbs and delays. Play a few of the pads to get a feel of the patch.

Kontakt sampler software#

Unlike the new Electric and Tubesynth plugins, there’s no nice GUI for Hybrid in the touchscreen interface, so to make life easier we’ll just head over to the MPC Software GUI and click on the Plugin Window icon in the Inspector:įrom the preset drop down, select ‘ Soft Basses > 47 Sluggish Pulse Bass’ : If you do want to multisample something with clear tempo elements then consider sampling ‘chromatically (every note) – this is achieved with an Autosampler Note Stride of ‘1’ (we’ll look at Note Stride very soon). Because you will inevitably be tuning samples in your resulting keygroup program you can’t really choose any patch that contains ‘tempo’ elements, for example ‘arpeggiated’ patches, or ‘sequenced’ patches (of which Hybrid has many), as the tuning process will change the tempo of the notes, leaving you with multiple BPMs. Not all patches are suitable for multisampling. Next, let’s find ourselves a nice bass patch. In the screenshot below I have selected the TYPE and MANUFACTURER filters at the bottom of the screen to organise my system plugins, otherwise you’ll potentially have a huge list of plugins sorted alphabetically.Ĭlick on ‘ MPC Expansions > AIR Music Technology > Hybrid and choose ‘ SELECT‘: To add an instance of Hybrid 3 to this track, first double tap the PLUGIN parameter. In sequence 1, select the empty track 1 and change the track type to PLUGIN. At this point you should be able to continue using your touchscreen to control the MPC, but you are now controlling the MPC Software application on your computer. Now tap on the CONTROLLER MODE button to enter controller mode. To do this go to MENU and tap on the MPC chip icon:

Now, as we are going to be sampling an MPC Software plugin we’ll need to leave standalone mode and enter controller mode.įirstly, connect your MPC to your computer using a USB cable and fire up the MPC Software application. The resulting keygroup program is fully ‘portable’, being 100% compatible with standalone and controller modes and can be customised with effects, filters and modulation just like any other MPC sample program.Īutosampler is, on the whole, a quicker and more robust option in comparison to my VST2MPC Workflow, although you might find that currently some plugins give you ‘glitchy’ results in Autosampler – in which case the VST2MPC Workflow remains a good option to consider (although if you use Kontakt, you might want to check the potential fix for these issues). This is able to create a standard MPC keygroup program from any plugin (or even from an attached hardware synth). The MPC X, MPC One, MPCKey 61 and MPC Live all contain a number of ‘internal’ synth plugins, however there is still no support for loading any third party plugins, nor is there any standalone support for the MPC Software’s built-in ‘ Hybrid 3’ synth. In this MPC X, MPC One, MPC Key & MPC Live tutorial adapted from my book, ‘ The MPC Bible‘, I’m going to take a look at the Autosampler feature which, much like my existing VST2MPC workflow, allows you to ‘clone’ your favourite VST/AU instrument patches so they can be used as standard ‘keygroup’ programs in standalone mode.