Setting up drum racks...

[Slapdash]

I've just got a lovely new akai mpd18. Huzzah!

`````any advice for setting up a default drum kit as part of my preset template? I'm thinking of assigning 3 banks worth of drum sounds. Is this going to be too memory intensive?

thanks

[dgill]

if you have sampler, you can change your default when dragging on a drum rack to be sampler rather than simpler. Sampler will allow you to stream samples from disk, avoiding the memory footprint of loading 48 samples using simpler.

[Slapdash]

Ooh, good tip, thanks. Also, my mpd18 has 3 banks. When I scroll up one set on the drum rack, it doesn't go up to the next 16 empty slots (it goes up by an octave worth). How can i change this?

[spadeAspade]

Hey, you can scroll up one line at a time by holding down command on mac or ctl (i think) on a pc.

Another thing I did was made a drum rack with a sampler in each slot. Then, I put each sample in sampler (128 kicks or so, but less is better) as a different chain zone. Then, i mapped the chain selector to macro 1 of the enclosing rack. It works very well. But, I recommend using maybe 45 samples max, as it's hard to get precise selection. There's some place explaining it on the web, but I can't remember where. Just, google, or search in the forums, "drum rack auditioner"

Hope that helps.

[dentaku]

Hey, you can scroll up one line at a time by holding down command on mac or ctl (i think) on a pc.

It's ALT to scroll one line at a time not CTRL.
I just tested it out because I didn't know about that before
I thought you could only scroll in steps of 3 (12 pads at a time in other words).