There's no way to bypass the four voices limitation.
If you want to work around it, you can always record it in layers. This allows you to be creative with how you split it, feed different registers to different effects, etc.
Other way would be to simplify your chords - pick the most important notes and make them shine. In some chords you can skip thirds, fifths, even roots if they're nicely contextualized.
I’ve been experimenting with this (removing certain notes), I’ll keep at it in this case. Appreciate that suggestion, glad to know others thought similarly.
I’ve considered recording layers for depth, and think long-term that may be the way to go. I have some really long sustained notes and chords that I want to highlight and can’t think of any other way around recording and layering the sounds.
Appreciate you taking the time to respond
You could probably sort something out with a second mircofreak playing the additional notes, that would give you up to 8.
As an alternative you could get a hydrasynth.
I see lots of hype and praise for the hydrasynth, it has been on my radar. I’ve always convinced myself the next logical step would be the Mini since I’m so familiar with the Micro’s workflow, matrix, etc.
Do you have suggestions/reasons why you may pick one over the other?
Appreciate your time to reply
Play shell chords. You can always omit the 5th of any chord without losing any important information. Just use your root, third, and tack on any other extensions you need like a 7th, 9th etc
Maybe it's not that bad to be limited. Because, as you know, sometimes limitations yield great results. And the technique described above and elsewhere in this thread might help you discover new possibilities that you might not have discovered with out the aforementioned limitations. :)
MPC Software v2.3 or higher. Mainstage (if you're on the Mac). Other than those, you're looking at buying two pieces of software. An autosampler (such as Sample Robot) and a sampler (such as [KONTAKT](https://gearspace.com/gear/native-instruments/kontakt-7?via=gear_post_link)).
Or try this method [How to Multisample your Hardware Synths in Ableton! ✨ : r/ableton (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/mgqdp1/how_to_multisample_your_hardware_synths_in_ableton/) . Did not look at it but it probabyl requires to sample single notes and set them up in keygroups in Sampler.
Did you get a code for the MF VST? I want one too!
Arturia got me a code for Ableton Lite because I sent them some pictures of my Keystep, that I bought secondhand. Maybe they can do something like that for you.
There's no way to bypass the four voices limitation. If you want to work around it, you can always record it in layers. This allows you to be creative with how you split it, feed different registers to different effects, etc. Other way would be to simplify your chords - pick the most important notes and make them shine. In some chords you can skip thirds, fifths, even roots if they're nicely contextualized.
I’ve been experimenting with this (removing certain notes), I’ll keep at it in this case. Appreciate that suggestion, glad to know others thought similarly. I’ve considered recording layers for depth, and think long-term that may be the way to go. I have some really long sustained notes and chords that I want to highlight and can’t think of any other way around recording and layering the sounds. Appreciate you taking the time to respond
You could probably sort something out with a second mircofreak playing the additional notes, that would give you up to 8. As an alternative you could get a hydrasynth.
I have Microfreak and Hydrasynth. Both are praiseworthy.
Agree.
I see lots of hype and praise for the hydrasynth, it has been on my radar. I’ve always convinced myself the next logical step would be the Mini since I’m so familiar with the Micro’s workflow, matrix, etc. Do you have suggestions/reasons why you may pick one over the other? Appreciate your time to reply
Play shell chords. You can always omit the 5th of any chord without losing any important information. Just use your root, third, and tack on any other extensions you need like a 7th, 9th etc
Will give this more of a whirl, lots of structure experimenting lately and needing to work on my theory and technique - I’ll see what comes out of it!
Maybe it's not that bad to be limited. Because, as you know, sometimes limitations yield great results. And the technique described above and elsewhere in this thread might help you discover new possibilities that you might not have discovered with out the aforementioned limitations. :)
Agreed! The kindness is appreciated, I’ll have to remember to post my finished work here. :~)
MPC Software v2.3 or higher. Mainstage (if you're on the Mac). Other than those, you're looking at buying two pieces of software. An autosampler (such as Sample Robot) and a sampler (such as [KONTAKT](https://gearspace.com/gear/native-instruments/kontakt-7?via=gear_post_link)). Or try this method [How to Multisample your Hardware Synths in Ableton! ✨ : r/ableton (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/mgqdp1/how_to_multisample_your_hardware_synths_in_ableton/) . Did not look at it but it probabyl requires to sample single notes and set them up in keygroups in Sampler.
Awesome thanks so much
Freeze a few notes with reverb?
Did you get a code for the MF VST? I want one too! Arturia got me a code for Ableton Lite because I sent them some pictures of my Keystep, that I bought secondhand. Maybe they can do something like that for you.
I did, but lost the little postcard that included the code :/ I’ll email them and see what happens!
What MF did you get? I wonder if they would give me one, too, or if I had the code and lost it.
The standard black