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. 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. 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.
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