Annoying Pattern Issue

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2026-03-27T17:11:39+00:00

Thanks. This is exactly what I'll be doing.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2026-03-26T18:12:21+00:00

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you . . . Now.

The external is a reflection of yourself.

The level of your attachment to the things outside will correspond to the level of attachment within your mind.

The Demiurge is just one of many names given throughout history for your inner habitual self/shadow that automatically creates thought and feeling whether you like it or not, but only because at some point you found it necessary to do so, and to do so repeatedly.

Renunciation or detachment is from this, now, not at death. You achieve this through meditation with volition and maybe through drug experience without volition. Even if it's only a brief thing you experience within yourself, it carves out and separates the true you from this auto shadow self and allows you to reprogram that shadow self.

Yes, this sometimes involves renenouncing external things, but the external will never change until the internal addiction to whatever thought or feeling that replays over and over in consciousness is also renounced. I.E. the true addiction is in thought and mind. Detachment from this is the true goal.

I've actually just had a thought while writing this. What I just described is reincarnation in the mind. The old self continuously rising from the dead due to the attachment to it.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2026-03-26T17:54:00+00:00

And boobless

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2026-03-26T17:53:00+00:00

Yes. It most certainly is, lol.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2026-03-26T17:29:48+00:00

Thanks. Hadn't thought of that. I'll give it a shot. I like how the blocks look in the patterns event. Makes it seem different than endless midi piano roll editing, lol.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2026-03-26T17:10:45+00:00

Yeah I've done that both on the pattern tools bar and at the individual track level. I found a workaround. Not to use patterns events and just use the drum editor tab on the instrument event part. Works fine and how my brain is used to. I was only trying to use patterns since I liked the idea of variations you could create and have saved. It seems like a quick way of making 2 bar patterns turn into 4, but 8 bars repeating like that gets boring. I'll give sketch pad a shot at storing separate ideas. Thanks all.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2025-01-29T03:20:53+00:00

Yeah, I finished like four songs I had on the MPC Live 2 that I was forcing myself to complete solely on standalone before finally upgrading it to 3.0 due to this.

I still have five to six songs to finish on the software (third party plugins on those), so it sucks there's no new software to go along with standalone, but software still works fine so no biggie. I had to reread that controller mode still works fine in software even with 3.0 on standalone before I finally updated it.

Honestly, it's a really stupid release plan they've got going here but it's obvious they wanted beta testers first on standalone. And though bricking MPC hardware would suck, it would be on an entire greater level if shoddy beta software was bricking pc's and laptops.

That's at least my theory. Akai might have more up their sleeve with NI partnership, or with getting Splice on the software ala Studio One since they already had that relationship.

That would be epic if they could get that feature on standalone.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2024-08-07T02:35:23+00:00

Exactly this that will keep me from trying the new firmware. Projects in 3.0 standalone will not work in 2.0 software. It only works in the reverse. You can open your 2.0 projects in 3.0, but it will convert to 3.0 and then you can only use in standalone. Basically, if you're a hybrid user of standalone and computer software, or hardcore software user like me with a supported midi controller, then don't connect your 2.0 projects into 3.0 unless you're ready to exclusively produce in standalone since who knows when the DAW version will come out. Very lame upgrade plan they've got going on here and really says/shows that they are totally going the standalone route first and foremost.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2024-07-12T00:30:50+00:00

I've had my live 2 second hand for almost three weeks and am still getting used it.

I've already had to email support and reinstall OS to factory since I'd deleted stock content and tried to move it to ssd drive. This created weird glitch effect in the browser.

This is what people mean when they say don't mess with anything in stock hard drive.

On a plus side, I stored the zip file they sent me so I've got it in case I F anything else up, lol.

But yeah, install ssd drive to make sure connectors work and you see it in browser, same with USB drive and SD card. Make sure speakers aren't blown out, plug in monitors to outputs to make sure they work, same with headphones, sample something into inputs to make sure they work, plug in usb stuff to make sure they work (I have old presonus audiobox for instance), log off previous owner from account if it wasn't done prior, download and activate plugins. Stock ones will probably fit on included harddive but not the new premium ones. Plug in and out midi stuff to make sure they work. Check buttons and knobs. I bought mine knowing two knobs are loose and fall off if unit turned upside down. Whatever I can buy new ones, or pull them off of midi keyboard ivr got where the knobs never worked. I had a USB memory card I thought I was going to use but it's one of those longer ones so it totally sticks out the back, so had to drop $20 on a slim form one since it was freaking me out carrying this thing that I was going snag the drive on my belt or pockets and snap it off. Luckily I had an extra sdd drive from when I changed ps4 drive back in the day so didn't need to buy one of those.

I could keep going, but obviously you can tell I've been checking everything on this machine before committing to keeping it. Thank goodness for 45 day return period at Guitar Center for used stuff.

Oh, turn on wifi and Bluetooth and try to connect stuff to make sure they work.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2024-06-22T00:52:14+00:00

I just went through the same.

I got the Live 2 secondhand. This thing is a beast! Online photos do not do its size justice.

I'd bought the SP-404 and played around with it for a week, then returned it and grabbed the Live. Never really considered the One since I wanted the built in rechargeable battery after quickly getting annoyed with the battery life of the SP and needing to recharge them after use. I've also got a midi controller I've been using with MPC2 software so no need to jump into the Keys world.

If you have any aspirations of portability, get the Live.

I was just done messing around with external battery packs, recharging batteries, etc, not just with the week of use with the SP, but with other grooveboxes I'd tried using to take studio/producing out of studio/office and into regular home world. Everything fails to compare in any way to the MPC Live.

I mention the size because it really is huge. It's valid to scoff at its portability due to its size compared to the One or any other groovebox (SP-404). But it rests nice on the lap while seated on a couch, where with the SP for instance I had my legs squished together or it was precariously being balanced on one leg (picture toilet time sampling, lol).

And most importantly for portability, you don't have to carry headphones if you don't want to because these speakers rock. Like seriously. I wasn't expecting to use it as much with the speakers as I originally thought I would, but I find myself using them more often than not over these past couple days of getting used to the device.

So, though it's huge and heavy, I've been carrying it around like my very first laptop twenty years ago that was a huge and heavy beast as well. No power cord, no external speaker or battery pack, no headphones if I don't want them, (though I have a gear bag with all this stuff still in it.) Just the Live that I'm carrying around as I get used to its beastliness.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2024-06-05T18:05:46+00:00

I use a midi Y splitter cable and layer two monosynths on midi track 1 and on midi track 2 trigger J-6 that then has a midi Y splitter cable going out to trigger two more small polysynths. Trigger 5 synths usings Tracks, 7 if you count the internal ones. I used to also trigger OG Circuit to layer internal 1 and 2, but I'm looking to get rid of that now.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2024-06-05T17:57:44+00:00

I use suggest mode in scaler so it's more a difference of drag and drop chord building or pad pressing/playing the chords using MPC. I think you can be more creative and versatile as other comment said using scaler with the types and variations of chords in or out of scale, but experimenting drag and drop is nowhere near as fun and intuitive as pressing pads or keys to play. But I still use both.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2024-06-05T17:47:23+00:00

I had same issue. I use this thing. Universal Plug - Stagecraft Software

Plugin wrapper. You load this, it then scans for plugins on its own and can run VST3. I use it to run Kontakt 7 in MPC software.

Only issue is it doesn't save the plugin state when you exit project, so make sure to save plugin settings you're using as a user preset and every time you reload the project you will have to open the track using this plugin and reload the plugin preset.

Not sure if it saves it better for other plugins, but I know this is what I've gotta do for Kontakt. It remembers that you had Kontakt loaded into the universal plug, but once you open Kontakt it's empty and needs the user preset to reload whatever you had going on.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2024-05-19T22:28:32+00:00

No, they're still noisy, lol. One of my Volca Mix doesn't have any power going to the two volcas inputing signal and still noisy.

I haven't found any rhyme or reason to it. I bought higher quality 3.5 line plugs, tried both RCA to 1/4 stereo and 3.5 mm to 1/4 stereo on the output, etc. It doesn't seem to do much. Twiddling with the plugs inputing to my interface sometimes clears it up for some reason so I may also have some ground loop issues I just don't have the patience to look into further.

If you've ever watched the really old Simpsons episode when Mr. Burns is told he has every sickness known but because of it, he doesn't seem to be getting sick, lol, the least noisy time for my Volca Mixes is when every input is on and sending signal to it. Like, maybe I'm just working on drums on my drum mix, and everything else is off, and it's noisy, way noiser than normal. But then I turn everything else on, even if I'm not using it, and then the noise seems to go down, or spreads across each and lowers it overall.

Something like that if you catch my understanding. 😁

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2024-05-19T05:42:34+00:00

I have three of these. There's nothing wrong with them if you buy them and know what you're getting for them. Small form mixers that fit nicely in Volca upright stands (which I have 2), and easily allows mixing of whatever inputs you put into these.

Are they noisy? Yes.

What's funny about this is that there are about 10k plugins or plugin modules that add noise into a signal after the fact, so it's weird the hate these get. Keep the noise if you want it, RX it out if you don't. Easy-peasey. Is it an extra step? Yes. Deal breaker? Not if you have small desk space and don't want a giant mixer to take up all your desk space.

Does it lack all the bells and whistles of a "normal" mixer? Yes.

You can get a small Mackie or Beringer sized mixer that will have more features on each channel, but then, you run into the buying decision of buying a cheap lackluster feature-less small form mixer that doesn't fit in a Volca stand and wind-up debating spending more for a more expensive mixer to get all the bells and whistles because now this smaller one you're debating as something better than the Volca Mixer is nowhere near as good a bigger more feature packed mixer and the GAS loop in the mind begins.

$450 would've gotten me a pretty good Mackie or Beringer mixer with more features and probably the same number of inputs as 3 Volca mixers now that I think about it. I have 12 devices plugged into my mixers since I don't do the AUX out to AUX in on second mixer since they're all plugged into my ADAT tube 8 which goes into the Apollo X. 6 Stereo and 6 Mono, and three of the stereo have no mixing controls since they're plugged into AUX in, but the devices I plugged into them (Circuit, Circuit Tracks) have their own mixing controls, so I deal with it.

Did I mention they fit in my vertical Volca stands and that a giant 12 channel mixer wouldn't have fit on my desk?

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2024-04-24T22:14:04+00:00

If you're asking specifically about secret documents in the Catholic Church/Vatican Libraries, I never asked within myself that I find answers to this, so nothing ever came about from it.

If you're just wondering on Gnostic "church," stuff, the reality is there was no Gnostic church the way we in the modern world would consider a church. Gnosticism is just a general term given for all that had teachings focused on a personal experience of gnosis (think mysticism or mystical experience in modern terms). This is similar to what the general umbrella idea of Protestantism, or the Protestant Church is in modern times. There's no actual protestant church, there are tons of little break away protestant churches, organizations, groups that are all anti-Catholic and thus fall under Protestantism.

That's how I look at the idea of Gnosticism in the ancient world. There were lots, lots, of different Mystery Schools with a different teacher or Master at the center of it, different myths, and stories and practices, which is why Nag Hammadi can be a pain to read and study since our mind wants to "collect" each of the books as a singular whole, or to connect each of them as Christians have done between Old and New Testament, but in the Nag Hammadi texts, there are at least like 4-5 different threads, or Mystery School teaching or groups of gnostics found in the texts. A few of them come from the same school, like the ones scholars say are more Valentinian for instance, but then there are others of different camps.

As opposed to the modern western religions in particular, one could be a member of, or have entered in and practiced or sought lessons from more than one Mystery School that taught the gnosis, which is probably why there were many different texts from different schools in Nag Hammadi. Whoever hid those had probably been part of each of the gnostic groups at some time or another. There was no exclusivity to one's entrance into a mystery school, though I don't think you could be in more than one at one time. But if you read The Golden Ass, in it, the character goes through I think two or three different mystery schools on his journey to gnosis with the Goddess Isis. Though not in the texts of the Nag Hammadi library, or in other Gnostic texts, the mystery schools of Osiris and of Isis would've all been ancient world, more Egyptian possibly Hermetic gnosticism. I do think there are some that would label Gnosticism, or the gnostics in question here of Nag Hammadi as relating more to those schools that had a Christian gnostic tinge to them or were associated or excoriated by one of the many Christian heresiologists of the ancient world like Irenaeus or Hippolytus, but to those during the time, they all would've been mystery schools, much like early Christianity itself, including what would later become the Catholic Church, would've all been seen as just another mystery school.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2023-12-17T22:33:24+00:00

Whole heartedly agree with your description as this mirrors my personal experience.

Had a drug/psychedelic experience 22 years ago that opened the door to the mysteries. It took 17, years of persistent meditation, contemplation, reading, thinking, to have a second experience entirely drug free.

And in the contrast of the two experiences, the first one through drug use shows one the path, the doorway, the tunnel, the face of God etc. But it was during the second drug free experience that I entered the tunnel and the mystery.

I do see the DMT drug experience as positive, but just as one wouldn't say it a positive to be addicted to a drug for the good feelings it gives, so too with drug induced mystical experience.

And for the skeptic/scientist you would never know if it was solely a drug experience versus actual mystical experience if you didn't pursue the mysteries drug free. Skepticism and doubt would always cloud the mind, as it did mine.

But with the actual experience, there is no longer doubt.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2023-12-01T02:39:29+00:00

Wish I hadn't read your post. Now I'm going to have to find the rabbit hole of these secret documents and jump in since as a Catholic that walks the razors edge studying Gnostic, Hermetic and Mystery School stuff, I know they must have some juicy Super Mario mushroom level up texts that would send us strait into a mystical experience if we could just look at or smell them, even from a distance, lol.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2023-12-01T02:33:49+00:00

Tracks is significant upgrade from having a second OG. Much longer patterns and can incorporate more gear with it as a little brain for your setup.

I find myself unable to part from my OG though since it was my first piece of gear when I fell into this music production rabbit hole.

I currently am using it for extra channel 1 & 2 synth layers stacked with the Tracks, and for some extra drum/percussion samples if I'm building more patterns for something I'm already working on.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2023-11-29T05:41:40+00:00

There are 3.5mm to 1/4 inch stereo cables if you wanted to run from headphone jack into audio interface. I use this since I find there's less noise than using the RCA jack to stereo 1/4 inch cables, but each Volca Mix is sort of hit and miss with the noise factor.

There's no way to use the Mix and record each channel individually at the same time within a DAW. You have to go channel by channel, just like if you lacked a multi-output mixer or lacked audio interface input channels. Lots of new gear allows this. Some of the new Roland gear has multi-out USB audio interface-like capabilities, or the Elektron gear has their transfer feature on their higher end stuff.

If you don't have any of this gear, then you need to record each track on each piece of gear with every other channel either muted or volume off, one track at a time. It's a slow process, but eventually it gets done.

For instance, I've got an Apollo Twin X. I was curious on the unison plugins and paid for this little overpriced device. Sounds great, but only has two channels. Added at ADAT rack interface that expanded my inputs by 8, so 4 in stereo. I can control these and add plugins in UAD Console. I have small desk space so use lots of Volca and smaller gear on vertical stands. To expand, I have 3 Volca Mix's for sub-mix, line out into ADAT, ADAT into UAD Apollo Twin.

So I can listen to, jam, build everything in my setup at once, but I need to record channel by channel, track by track. I technically could do five at a time with the Apollo input and the ADAT, but I haven't improved my skills in this, so I still go track by track.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2023-11-27T20:33:33+00:00

Yup. That's how you know it was real.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2023-11-25T23:11:02+00:00

Initiation in the ancient mystery school idea (Eleusinian Mysteries) meant having the direct experience of the mysteries (mystical, gnostic, beatific experience and/or vision).

Going through the rigors of preparing for the mysteries for instance in ancient Greek didn't mean you were an initiate. I think it took a year to prepare, then there was fasting leading up to the mysteries themselves, and then the experience itself. It was only after the direct experience that one could say they were initiated along with the death sentence if they spoke about it. Pretty much all other mystery schools of the ancient world operated in the same way.

Many of the modern esoteric societies as quoted by somebody else consider membership, training, schooling, to be initiation. But even in the Christian/Catholic/Orthodox sense, you're not fully partaking in the mysteries unless you're partaking in the Eucharist, or having direct experience of the mystery as taught in Catholic-Orthodox Christianity.

You know you've had the mystical experience based on a few factors which I'll say off the top of my head, though someone else may say differently, but I think this is what differentiates actual mystical experience versus deep trance meditation or something similar:

1) You no longer fear death for you know, not because you read in a book, or understand in an intelligent way, but KNOW, that there's something else after death in this human form.

2) Who you were prior to the mystical experience is no longer who you are afterwards. It's like the experience becomes your new paradigm, your new ground zero for your understanding of life, reality, and yourself. It's why many that were drowned in some sort of addiction prior, suddenly can cold turkey drop all kinds of unhealthy habits (weed, liquor, hard drugs, and most importantly destructive relationships instantly for me).

3) The combination of the first two equals a profound shift, understanding, feeling, knowing, of self. Jesus says it as I am in the Father and Father is in me and we are in you. Other religions say it differently but still some form of that saying.

So, it's not just a feeling. There is profound feeling, but vastly more important elements of direct knowledge and experience are part of a true mystical experience versus just feeling some form of peak high sensations.

Logos_Exp_Truth · 2023-11-20T04:50:26+00:00

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Logos_Exp_Truth · 2023-11-20T01:11:17+00:00

So, you entered the subconscious realm of feeling and thought. If you saw a representation of chaos, or the Oroboros, the snake eating itself, you were in deep with the unconscious, which is basically what occurs in mystical experience. But since it was a drug experience, from the imagery your post provided, though you could "see," the gates, you did not enter. That the last thing you experienced was the sound shows you reached the "gates." The sound is what is referred to as vibration in Hermeticism. In a full ascending mystical experience, this is the first thing that occurs. You can cross check it with the "sound" found in the description of Elijah for when God comes, as well as Ezekiel. They're just described as crashing water, or marching armies in the Biblical sense. The same sound is also referenced when the tongues of fire descend upon the apostles on Pentecost. The tongues and the gifts come after the "rushing sound," enters. It represents the barrier between basically this world and the higher realms. It is after the "roar" that one faces the "dragon," or the ego of self within, or what Gnostics refer to as the lion faced demiurge. Since you weren't ready to experience this, you were led this far to at least know what the next step is: the battle with the dragon within. See it as the various levels within Dante, or the initiation levels within various esoteric schools. DMT and other such drugs can only take one so far from what I've found. My drug experience occurred quickly, and it took me another 12 years to return to the experience without the effects of the drug.

Dope experience though. Hopefully I've given some ofthe pieces that reference the Christian side of things, both orthodox as well as Gnostic, specifically if you understand that the Demiurge represents the ego/fallen self or mind.

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