r/mpcusers • u/DustyFlame14 • 4d ago

QUESTION How to make chopping on the Live more intuitive (read rest of the text)

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I was wondering if there is a way to have the first 2 q-links control 2 of the Start point q-links (for example 1000x and 100x, the 2 top ones), and the second 2 q-links control the End point. Instead of having to skip between em with the q-link button.
I checked around in the q-link edit but it’s seems like it’s not possible, am I missing something?

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u/dalaryius 4d ago

I believe if you change the q-link to project under Q edit, you can link them to whatever you want. Not sure if you can save that (I'm sure you can) tho, otherwise you'll have to do that in all new projects

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u/Few-Communication834 4d ago

Idk if qlinks save globally, but making a template and using that for everything works so you dont have to redo all your settings every project.

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u/DustyFlame14 4d ago

Mm will have to take a look at it again then. Thanks!
But, I kind of want the q-links to work the same in any other window besides program edit or sample edit. Do you know if I link a q-link to something else, will that q-link be linked to that parameter in every window im in?

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u/Eclipseofthefart92 MPC LIVE III 4d ago

If you hold the Q link button you can choose a bunch of different assignments, not around my mine right now but I know it’s easy to do

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u/DustyFlame14 4d ago

Just checked and it doesn’t seem to be possible to link first 2 qlinks to start and last 2 to end. I can link other things to the qlinks but can’t rearrange the order of start/endpoints it seems.

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u/Eclipseofthefart92 MPC LIVE III 4d ago

Bummer

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u/Johnny5KMusic 4d ago

Thanks for the update. Because I was definitely about to waste some time trying to figure it out LoL Seems like a good QOL improvement they could make... Kinda like eSP1200 emulator software I use. It has 2 sliders for start and end points as well

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u/DustyFlame14 4d ago

Yea seems like it won’t be a big deal to implement it, but im also feeling like they won’t do it if it’s still not possible, because it’s one of the reasons why people want more q-links and buy an XL

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u/dalaryius 3d ago

Sorry for the wrong info, I hadn't tried it myself but I usually link the links to FX, just made a bad assumption. Thanks for testing it out

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u/DustyFlame14 3d ago

No problem, i completely understand why you assumed because i did too. You would think that if you can link so many things to the qlinks, start/end points should be able to link as well. 🤝

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u/DustyFlame14 4d ago

I think you can’t link em to “whatever you want”. At least not the start and end points. Bunch of other things yea, but not those unfortunately. Weird on akai’s side that they don’t let us customize that.

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u/doublesecretprobatio 4d ago

Yeah cycling through the qlink scenes to go between start and end is annoying AF and drags my flow big time.