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Using it in the loosest sense. I've fucked around with it quite a bit as a standalone unit (I will never get tired of the 303 sound) but this is the first time I've bothered to plug it into a PC to see if I can sync it with drum patterns or other synth sounds. I know how much of a time sink it can be but I've got some extra time off over xmas with no travel planned so thought I'd see what it can do. Of course now I'm having horrible MIDI channel flashbacks and realise it takes a fucking software engineering degree to use half this shit...
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Okay, maybe I'll revisit Ableton. That sample bank could be useful. I don't have time to rip and cut up samples like I used to.
Last night I got my MPK inputting to Reaper and firing some VST synths and drums which is super neat. It can record patterns and stuff like I remember doing in Cubase back in the feckin' 90s. I need to work out how it allocates stuff to keys - seems there's just a random assortment of drum machine sounds on a variety of keys/pads. Also need to work out how to get the knobs controlling the virtual synth knobs, if you get me?
I also plugged the TB3 into the PC. Turns out modern shit is much simpler than the old MIDI stuff - it all just works through USB - power, audio and MIDI! Awesome. Only problem is, I can't work out how to trigger the TB3 from Reaper. When I play in Reaper, it plays the existing pattern I have saved on the TB3 but I can't trigger it from the MPK or work out how to create a midi pattern that fires off the TB3.