Melodee for the MPC Sample: 16-tracks & multisample kits, plug-ins and 4-track looper (Not a mod!)

video upload by Keremimo

You might recall Melodee for the M-VAVE FM-1. It has now been ported to the MPC Sample.

"Melodee is a free, open-source groovebox app for the Akai MPC Sample. It runs from the microSD card and changes nothing on the MPC itself.

This video walks through it: 16 tracks, one per pad, each a kit, a plug-in instrument or a MIDI track; MPC drum programs that load as a whole kit; multisampled instruments (SFZ, MPC keygroups, EXS, SoundFont) that stream from the card, with their zones laid out on screen; grain clouds; VST3 and VST2 plug-ins, with the Melodee Poly, PD and Chip synths; Keys with scales and chord layouts, and an arpeggiator; step sequencing with parameter locks, ratchets and Euclid; a piano roll; Motion recording, LFOs and macros; six-slot effect chains on every track, bus and the master, with sidechain keying; scenes and follow actions; a Song timeline with export to stems and MIDI; and a four-loop Looper.

How this was made: every screen and every sound comes from Melodee's own code, run on a computer with a scripted hand pressing the MPC's buttons, pads and knobs. It isn't camera footage, and the MPC Sample on screen is a drawing. The music is a demo project made for this video at 90 BPM: drums from the Dirty Drummer Demo kit, a Farfisa from Vintage Organs 3 Demo, a boys' choir multisample, and a Rusty Drums 3 kit loaded on camera; the bass and the pluck are the Melodee Poly plug-in.

https://github.com/keremimo/melodee-s...

CHAPTERS
0:00 Melodee for the MPC Sample
0:21 16 tracks, one per pad
0:53 Kits on any track
1:36 Sampled instruments
2:08 Cloud
2:29 Plug-in instruments
3:01 Keys and arpeggiator
3:33 Step sequencing
4:16 Piano roll
4:37 Motion and modulators
5:09 Effects and sends
5:52 Scenes and follow actions
6:24 Song arrangement
6:56 The Looper
7:28 Thanks for watching

Akai and MPC are trademarks of inMusic Brands. Melodee is an independent project by Kerem Kiliç (Ellic Studio), not affiliated with inMusic."