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Make sure the COPY TYPE is set to ‘ Pad’ use this setting when coping a single pad.These settings will copy pad A1 from the Horizontal Kit to pad A4 in the Vertical Kit. These can be copied anywhere within the current program or even to a completely different program it’s a very flexible feature.Ĭonfigure the COPY PADS screen as follows:

In the COPY PADS screen we can copy individual pads, a range of pads or even an entire bank of pads. Now tap the pencil icon at the end of the PROGRAM row and select COPY PADS: Hit the ‘ A’ icon and rename this new program as ‘ Vertical Kit’. In MAIN, hit the + icon on the program row to create a new blank DRUM program. Standalone Workflow 1: Rearranging Pad Layout with ‘COPY PADS’įirst, let’s create a new blank program to hold our rearranged ‘Vertical’ kit. Whether you prefer horizontal, vertical or a more ‘freestyle’ configuration, just follow the workflows in this tutorial and you’ll be comfortable making any layout you need.

If you’re interested in finding out more about finger drumming with vertical kit layout, check out Robert Mathijs’ excellent Quest For Groove Youtube channel which features lots of finger drumming tutorials for pad based controllers (Robert’s kits tend to use the middle columns (2 and 3) for the core drums). What I like about this arrangement is that it frees up the entire left hand column and top row for musical one shots such as bass tones, lead sounds, chords, hits and so on. The remaining pads will normally be played with your left hand, which can be used to add funky ‘ghost’ notes, open hat and crash, and perform hat or snare rolls (in combination with your right hand). Here the ‘core’ elements of the kit (kick, snare, hat) are arranged vertically in the last column this will enable you to play the core ‘foundation’ of your beat entirely with your right hand (for example, kick with your thumb, snare with your index finger, closed hat with your middle finger). This type of generic horizontal layout is very common in commercially available kits, but many finger drummers will often prefer their pads to be arranged in an essentially ‘vertical’ layout, such as the one below: Hi hats are all set to mute group 1 (to ensure the open hat can be choked), and all instrument groups have been assigned a colour for easy identification when playing. We have the main kick, snare, closed and open hats on the bottom row, a ‘ghost’ (soft) kick, ghost snare, cross stick and a ‘hard’ closed hat on the second row and a crash on the third row. This kit contains nine drum pads, A01 to A09, currently configured in a basic ‘horizontal’ style finger drumming layout. Load the drum kit ‘ Horizontal Kit.xpm’ into your project and assign to an empty sequencer ‘ DRUM’ track. Now go to BROWSER > Places and navigate inside the ‘ Rearrange MPC Pads Tutorial ’ folder.

#Akai mp fl studio keys going to drums archive

Download the tutorial files and after unzipping the archive you’ll see the folder ‘ Rearrange MPC Pads Tutorial’ – transfer this folder to your MPC’s SD card or USB drive (if you need help with this, check out my Standalone MPC File Transfers Guide). This first part of this MPC workflow tutorial is written for rearranging pads in the hardware UI of modern standalone MPCs.

#Akai mp fl studio keys going to drums software

In this MPC tutorial we’re going to look at a couple of methods for ‘re-arranging’ the pads in modern standalone MPCs ( MPC X, MPC Live, MPC One) as well as for kits loaded in the MPC Software and MPC Beats app. This is easy to achieve while initially creating the kit, but can be more tricky when trying to ‘re-arrange’ an existing kit, especially if all your pads contain many custom parameter settings such as envelopes, FX, filters and layers. If you’re a keen MPC finger drummer you’ll probably like to configure your kits with a specific layout.