MPC Expansion: What’s Inside?
The expansion edition is made for the newer generation of MPCs such as the
MPC X
,
MPC Live
and
MPC Software
(including its controllers such as the
MPC
Touch
,
Renaissance
and
Studio
). These expansions work in both MPC
Software 2.x and MPC Software 1.9. The kits are also fully compatible with the
Akai Force
.
There are three mixes of the kit;
Vintage
,
Seventies
and
Modern
. Each mix is
provided as a ‘
cycle’
kit and
velocity switching
kit. We have also created a
further 10 additional ‘sound patches’ that provide additional sonic variations of
the kit with FX, filters and other unique program parameters applied. Demo MIDI
sequences are also provided for each kit.
Cycle Kits vs Velocity Switching Kits
When you hit an acoustic drum it never sounds exactly the same; softer hits
sound different to hard hits, and there will always be slight differences between
hits of similar velocity.
If we capture those subtle variances in timbre as unique samples we can set up
each pad to play back one those samples each time it is hit, giving a very
realistic, organic sound.
‘
Velocity switching’
is used as the basis for all kits in the expansion named
‘
Classic’
. In these kits a soft pad hit will play back a ‘soft’ sample, a hard hit
plays back a ‘hard’ sample and so on. Most pads in a classic kit feature 4
dynamic variations (‘soft, medium, medium hard, hard).
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