Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Sorry to contradict Eric (and I should thank him in passing for all
his work on this group) but there was indeed a discussion either here
or possibly the MC909 or MPC list, and the upshot of some testing was
that when you quantize on an MPC it rounds a few of the numbers down
instead of up as on the EMUs and the 909, and as a consequence you
actually get a slightly different feel. This is the swing hip hop
people rave about. There are MPC templates for sequencer programmes
like Logic which will provide this.  The MIDI/sound thing that rEalm
mentions is a reference to the fact that psocessing ROM samples eats
up processor power and can cause lagging.  The MPC does not have this
problem because it has no internal ROM.  
By the way, if anyone can find the postings which give the MPC
quantize values please let me know (pkirkup@...).
P


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> The MPC's are known for having really tight timing, not really for a 
> strange swing (hold on though, I know what you're getting at).  The
reason 
> they have tight timing, is that while they use MIDI for sequencing
(duh), 
> they don't use it for internal data transmission within the
sequencer, so 
> they aren't limited to the MIDI spec's serial nature.  So their groove 
> templates and swing settings are sought after not because they are
strange 
> or that different from any other sequencer, but because the timing
is so 
> tight on them.
> 
> rEalm
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> Hi peops,
> Ive read long time ago an article in this list, explaining why mpc 
> sequencer gave a strange swing/feel to midi (it talked about ppq, 
> quantize et cubase in it)
> Someome know what im talking about ?
> 
> If u can answer me and give me a link to it it would be great.
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