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Old 10th September 2010   #27
Caramel
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Originally Posted by Azriel_7 View Post
You're not understanding what I'm talking about.
If you have say 24 Tracks in your Song or Pattern you would like to go to your mixer screen and have 24 Faders that match those tracks.
The way Roland did it, the mixer is one size and controls the 16 PARTs etc so if you use a PART on different Tracks when you adjust the Mixer it will effect every instance of that PART.
This is also a place where the lack of 16 levels of Pitch affects things.
If you want to multipitch a particular sample it has to eat a PART, either by you creating the additional pitches or making it an Instrument.
I use to just throw different pitches inside of drum kits but then it gets caught in the Global Mixer for that PART.

Resampling should be a desired process not a workaround.
I don't want to have to go back and resample something that I resampled because the printed Effect is obstructing the balance later.

The lack of MIDI out/thru has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
I'm referring to needing to send a clock info from the DAW, Drum Pads Triggers and a keyboard notes to the single MIDI input on the MV.
Nothing fun about having 1 MIDI input.
I got the MV to go back to working with a box with limitations and pushing it to the limit.Especially for Hip Hop. Because I was yearning for the HIP HOP aesthetic of working with a beat-machine and making beats. I seldom or never need 24 tracks of anything. And Maybe I use 1 external module. The point was NOT to use triggers or any other external devices. I don`t even use the VGA, on purpose.

So for the most part making sampled based beats, it fullfills my needs and if I Must do any extras on it I can .
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