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By linesman Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:56 am
Hi guys, hoping someone can help me out with this!
After I've bought some new sounds online,(lots of drums etc) downloaded to mac and transferred them to mpc2500, when i play the sounds in the mpc some of them don't play at all and some just play the same sound i.e. the same snare even though they have different names..(obviously the sounds play fine and are all present and correct on my computer) Does anyone know why this is happening?
Thanks!
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By starmanwarz Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:17 pm
Make sure they are not 24bit. The 2500 supports only 16bit. If that's the case, you will have to mass convert them to 16bit.
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By MPC-Tutor Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:35 pm
Regarding the ones that play identically, this is because the MPC can only read the first 16 characters of the file name - so if you have multiple sounds with the same first 16 characters in the file name is just assumes they are all the same file. So with three files with the following names:

a_very_long_file_name123
a_very_long_file_namexxx
a_very_long_file_nameabc

The MPC reads these all as a single sample called 'a_very_long_file'

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