MPC Program and Drums

hi, I just purchased an MPC 2000xl, coming from maschine. as you can guess, i have absolutely no idea what i'm doing. on my computer, i transferred all my samples to 16 bit, put it on a cf card, loaded them all into the MPC (i "kept" them in the load screen), but from there i'm confused.

i have several noob questions and i hope someone could give me a couple of pointers

1. what are the drum1-drum4?
2. how do you use programs?
3. how can you have a sample fully chopped in one pad bank?
4. how can you have drums in a completely different pad bank?

i'm sure these questions have been answered millions of times, i just had a hard time looking for it because they're always asked in a different way. i would really appreciate anyone that is willing to help me out.

Get this. Spend the money. If you truly know nothing about MPC's, this book is everything you need and then some.

http://www.mpc-samples.com/product.php/ ... mpc2000xl/

If you spent a couple hundred on a 2000XL, buying this book should be a solid investment to learn it and use it to its fullest capabilities.

You mentioned you are using a CF Card, reading this Post is something you need to do:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=178199&p=1688453&hilit=Cf+card+Mac#p1688453

thank you

qinfolk wrote:1. what are the drum1-drum4?

These are program 'holders', each one is assigned a specific program. It's a concept subsequently dropped in later MPCs.

2. how do you use programs?

Select a DRUM holder and assign a program to it - assign samples to the program's pads. Now assign this DRUM holder to a track in your current sequence
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3. how can you have a sample fully chopped in one pad bank?

Check out my free mpc2000XL chopping tutorial for details.

4. how can you have drums in a completely different pad bank?

Manually assign the samples to the pads in that different bank.

You can download the official MPC2000XL manual from my site:

http://www.mpc-tutor.com/akai-mpc-manuals/

And as SILIS101 mentioned, I created the tutorial book 'Beat Making on the MPC2000XL':

http://www.mpc-samples.com/product.php/ ... mpc2000xl/

I wrote that mainly because I found the manual didn't really explain how to use any of the MPC2000XL features to make actual music, so if you are completely new to MPC workflow my book was definitely written to help you.