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1. Skill Share MPC 2 LIVE 2 Lesson 1: Hello, welcome to this course with this skillshare
version is going to focus on using the NPC live
two to create a basic beat. This could be a beat
for the background of your workout video, exercise video, for example. What we're going to be doing is first we're going
to have challenges. Like for example, to make
a introduction sequence. Then I'm going to challenge you to add drums sequence two. I'm going to challenge
you in sequence three to add a different
type of drums. And then sequence four
is just drums alone. And then we're going
to look at song mode, putting them all together. And then the last
step is exporting it. All right, if you down for
the challenge, here we go. Okay, so I'll walk you
through my thinking. My thinking is, okay,
how do I turn it on? I'll look for the button
right back here, Power it on. Okay, because I want to make it connected
to the software. So I'm going to have to plug in this USB connection
back over here, and I'm going to
plug it in there. And then I can have
it working, right? So I'm going to open up the
NPC program right there, clicking on the NPC
preferences input input. It means it's my
microphone, the USB, and then the output is
the speakers for now. And that's good
loading a drum kit. Remember down here there. Let's go with number
one, Double click it. Remember, you could
click over here, those six dots to
use your keyboard. Okay, if you don't want
to do the controller. All right, so I'm going to
have to disconnect the wire. 1 second on the software. How do you change the
sequence name? Right here. Just double click and melody
there. It's done already. Let's do sequence
number two to be Melody and drums, Drums one. Then let's do number three. Could be Melody, drums two. And let's see number four as just drums alone. Drums alone. Okay, so now we have the
four different parts there and let's see
if it on the Okay. All right, so I'm going to
walk you through what I did to get to accomplish the goal,
which is to turn it on. So I powered it on and now
I'm here on my computer. I'm going to go to MPC. And I'm going to, I loaded
up on an empty project, but now I want to connect the
hardware to the computer. So what I'm going to
do now is I'm going to go here to the, I'm going to push
the main button. All right, I'm going to
actually go Empty Project. Okay, so I want
to empty project. Now at this screen, I'm
going to go to the house. And then from the house, you
see this, this chip here. It's like so man, okay, this is like a chip here. If you touch that, it
becomes controller mode. With controller mode, it's going to send a signal here
to the computer. It's looking for a computer. I'm going to go here to NPC. Now I notice that
it's picked it up. How do I know that? If you
look at the screen here, it's showing that sequence. I'm going to push the
button to see if it has it. Put the speaker on.
There's a switch at the back here. I'm
going to put it on. The speaker on. Okay. Now
I'm going to go here to the program to make sure the output so command
is a shortcut. Input is none, okay? Output lie, two input could be, let's use it as the speakers
of the computer, okay? All right, so let's check
it out. Master volume up. Okay, so now we have both
things going on here, loading the hardware
and the software. Okay, so that was the first mission is turning on your program and
loading up a drum kit. Now if I was on here, I can go to Shift. Menu is a quick way to
find your expansion packs. From now I'm going to go to expansions and I can
find another one. Remember the four squares, that's for drum kits. I'll load drum number two, replace, there you go. I should go back to Main, hit Main, and go
to drum kits here. Switch it up. Now
this is number two. All right, I'll
just show you once again on the software here. What I did was here
melt and Miti put in the first loop right here, okay. And then I did bounce to track. So you can go here, edit, seek track, and you can
bounce to new audio tracks. So it will send it
out to right here. And then the miti will
basically become muted. Okay, see how it's
muted there. Muted.
2. Skill Share MPC LIVE 2 Lesson 2: All right, so the next
objective is going to be for you to find a sample, a melody, to be like the introduction to the first track one that
you're creating. What you could do is look
in your samples for that. So let's look at how
you'd go about it, right? The first step would
be type in samples. Look for which kind
of melody you want. So it could be a piano, it
could be like trumpets. Just something I like
the introduction of the starting of your. Okay, so we're going to look at that. That's
your objective. To find a melody and
hopefully put it in the grid or you can decide to put
it in the audio, okay? All right, here we go
to create sequence one. To change the sequence one
name to melody. That's it. Okay, With the actual device, I'm going to go to
Melody and do it. Okay. And then we'll look at
how to do it on the software as well. All right. How would you go about finding
a sample and putting it in the first part of your grid? What I would do now is I would I would actually
go to assign samples. Because when you load a kit, it comes with samples as well. Now I'm going to scroll
and search for a sample. See there's different
loops here. There's a melodic,
I like that one, so I'm going to put that
melodic loop right up here on pad the top
number 13, right here. So when I push it, when you get pack I messaged them and I asked
them, is it royalty free? For the most part, it
should be good to go. When I'm using that loop, I can just assume that it's
clear and ready to go. I'm going to go to Main.
I'm going to go here. Since it's only melody, I'm going to try to
put on the melody in. If I want to see how
long the melody is, I'm going to go to sample it. The quick trick way was menu. I'm going to hit this pad
because sample it's there. You see how these
different menu options are corresponding to the pad. If I want to go to
the sample edit, I could just hit that. Now I'm in the sample editor,
I can see it's about, this loop is about 5 bars
because it's right there, The five number or six. What I'm going to do
is I'm going to change my bars here to
six, back to main. See the bars here?
56. Okay. Zooming in there now it's six now
when I do my beat. So I'm going to go
back to main here. Main grid, and I'm going to
go to record. Play Start. I'm, I'm going to hit this
button and I put it into late, so I want to put it back maybe. Yeah. You can use this
data dial to change where beat was supposed
to start from that, 813. So let's go here. Play Start. So I'm going to have
to maybe put like 7 bars because I noticed
it got cut off there. So let's check it out here. Okay, I don't know what's
going on with that, but let's send it out. Bounce it out to
audio track, pencil. Bounce to, It's not
sample the whole track. Bounce the audio track. Let's see, now it's
an audio track, so I'm going to check
it out like this. And I can even fade in
and out there is seven, so I'm going to go
here, click here, and fade out, Fade out. Here's introduction, the first part of the song or the beat. Okay, so that's
done. So now I have my first part of my song
sequence. One melody, right?
3. Skill Share MPC LIVE 2 Lesson 3: Now we have the melody. At the first one,
the track is melody. So second introduction,
now we're going to add the
drums Version one you can have high hats and then maybe the next one we
could take high hats out. Once again, the objective
is go to track two, put your melody again and
put some random drums. And remember my thinking is, let's do a first bad
first drop. Who cares? If people laugh and make fun, just do it and let's see what
happens. Okay, there we go. Let's go. All right,
here we are at the view. So I want to come back to
the normal main right here. Now with main, what
I'm going to do now is sequence was
melody sequence. Now I want to turn the data
dial and go to the drum one. Now I'm going to do practice. Okay, that was just
a random practice. And now it's not
going to go until you arm it so that red
doll has to be on. If it's off, nothing's going
to record into the grid. Even if I pushed for cord and I did play start. Guess what? Nothing's going in. The problem was I didn't go
to arm it. Now it's armed. Now I'm going to put the first
layer which is the velit again, how do I know it got in? I'm gonna look down and
there it is right there. See I messed up there. It's okay. Now, over Dub and
let's see if he goes in. What's happening is that it's changing to like it's automated thing
because it's on time. Correct. Let's go here to
mean let's turn time right here and then it doesn't
like quantize the notes. Let's go back here and
I'm going to do it again. What I'm going to do
is I'm going to select all with that selector and then I'm going to go
here, select all of it. Shift cut, it's all gone. Now I'm going to do
it again. We du, I had an extra kick,
I can dot that. Just bad like that in the side for me.
That's good enough. What I'm going to do
now is I'm going to shoot it out to an audio track. How do I do that? I'm going to go to bounce the audio track. Now I have my second part. I'll check it out here, and if it's too loud I
can select it and go level and volume down counter clockwise
and check it out now. All right, so now I have the second
sequence for the track. All right. Now let's go back to, that was the objective, right? To create drums
and add a melody.
4. Skill Share MPC LIVE 2 Lesson 4: So the next objective is to have three sequence
number three, the same melody with a
different kind of drums. You can even do a different way, you could do it
with eight weights. It's up to you. You
can be creative. Remember, let it be sloppy, let it be messy, let
me make mistakes. That's how we're going
to learn. Okay, here we go. All right. Now for this one, I'm going
to go to sequence three, which is the first mission to sequence three. Now, play chart. Nothing is there, but I feel like being creative
and I feel like, you know what, I want to
put some eight weight, so I'll sign samples. I'm going to clear
everything that's here, so that's why I'm
clearing it. So I want to replace that
eight a weight. I don't need the shaker.
Okay? So I'm going to go, I'm going to
change the kick. I need a eight a weight. So I'm going to look here
for eight weights. Okay, here's a kick. Eight
weight. Okay. So I'll go here. Put that one and
see. Okay, actually I'm going to go to search for a different 808 shift
shift brows and down here brows and I'm
going to type in 88, do it. I'll get nothing right There's
kits but I'm going to go here a samples and now I'm going to search
for the one I like. I have it on green here, so it's going to go into that pad. I like that one. Touch it in, I'll push it in now. I'll go back to Maine here
and I'll check it out. Let's see. Okay. So now I'm going to go, I can go back to track
one, doesn't matter here. So I'll put the first one in. So I just did wits. And that's my second sequence. So I can turn order off and
I can mess around with the. Let me see if its I think I'm going to
take these Eta weights out and do it. Do the kick and the
snares together. So let me get all of them. Shift cut and you do them together. So I'm
going to do it again. I think that was an extra. All right, so I'm
going to bounce that, go to main track, bounce audio track.
And let's look at it. If it's too loud, remember
touch it, level down out. All right, now that
is done, right? So we did a second sequence. The third one is a melody
drums version two. I'm going to ask you to
do the drums by itself.
5. Skill Share MPC LIVE 2 Lesson 5: For this last part is going
to be your drums by itself. We're going to just
put any drums, you can do a new drum sequence the way you want to do
it, it's up to you. You can put new sounds, it's totally up to you.
All right, here we go. All right. The new objective
is going to be to do a fourth sequence which is only going to be
drums by itself. If you ever watch
a exercise video, sometimes they have
different parts. This would be the part
where the drums by itself, I want to sequence four. I don't really need any
audio tracks right now. I'm going to go back to Midi. Now. At mid now, I could do a new
drum kit so I can do the change the kit,
for example, here. So let's just by
itself, I'm on drums, so let's go to record
Play. Start. Here we go. Let's check it off
from the grid. I have an extra snare there, so I'm going to zoom in. What I did was I
hit the microphone. The magnifying glass.
Magnifying glass. And then from the
magnifying glass I can as take that off. It still feels like
this time cracked on. Let me check it out.
Mean ten quicks off? That sounds so fast. The
two kicks at the starting. So I'm gonna go back
here to delete those. That sounds cool. But I'm gonna take
those kicks away. Start off with this sneer. Okay. Now I want to
balance that again. Put it on track four. Yeah, I'll balance this truck to audio track. Let's check it out. Audio five, here we go. Okay, let's go to song mode
and put them all together. Let's go here to menu and
see where song mode here, let's put the melody
by itself in.
6. Skill Share MPC LIVE 2 Lesson 6: All right, for this objective
is going to be for us to go to song mode and put the different
sequences all together. So the melody and then
melody with drums one, melody with drums two,
and then drums alone. Then you can mess around with it like how many repeats you want. But that's the objective.
Okay, here we go. I'm here now in song mode. What I'm thinking now
is I just push insert. I want four parts,
That's a basic. I want change that
to one melody. The melody will play first and then the sequence
two will play, which is a melody in our
first type of drums. And then here is going
to be melody and drums, another one and then last
one, drums by itself. So let's see how it sounds. Play Start just by itself. Let's see it's playing that one because it's red there, right? So I'll have to wait till
it gets to the starting there and that's too long so. So that's it plays the first
one it goes the next one, that's our first
basic beats done. We can mess around with it and make it longer
so we can have the drums repeating twice and then we can have
it back to melody. Melody, with the
drums that one plays, you can mess around
with it there. And then let's see
how it sounds. Now this is a melody by itself. See that's too long
to change that. You're gonna play two times because you have it on
two, right, repeat. So my problem right now is with the first one being
too long, 7 bars. So let's go here to Maine. See what's going
on with this one. I know it's going to play
only the audio here. It's going too long it, Let's cut it down to six, or maybe we'll keep that four. What you can do
now is let me zoom out if you want to make it shorter so you grab it from the bottom and you
can bring it in. Let's see now, song mode. Let's go menu song mode. Let's check it out now, that's awesome. Perfect.
7. Skill Share MPC LIVE 2 Lesson 7: All right, so now the
last project is going to be to export the song
that you created here. Okay, so last step is
going to be exporting. So here's export. Click on it wave. If you want to do it
for like the Gum road or for bandcamp, you're going to have
to do Flack, I think. Sorry. What I know is
band camp asked for flat. You can call it
whatever you want and then you can send it out. Hopefully you can find it. That's the last objective, which is to find your
exported creations. Okay, and to export
the sequence. Al right, so thank you
and have a nice day.
Yadvinder Singh, In love with music production!
