Ill-Green wrote:Nah, it can't be done, but he literally means that you can sample while a sequence plays. Don't know what it has to do with this convo but thats one of the 500 secrets.
The convo started because I was confused by this statement:
motosega wrote:although it is digital, theres nothing to stop you doing it analog, the mpc500 can play sequences while it's recording.
I understand the 500 samples while the sequence plays, but I don't understand how it makes it analog. I understand the in's are analog. I understand the out's are analog. I understand once sampled into the MPC 500 it becomes digitalized. So I don't understand how it is possible to keep a sample analog once sampled in the 500. That's it.
I hate to say it but tapedeck is raising more questions in my head (no disrespect, I've been reading this forum for years & feel you are very knowledgeable).
For example tapedeck mentions it becomes a "different digital" once sampled in the 500. I understand it's different, but if I sample my ms-20 mini (analog synth) into the 500, there is no digital until it is in the 500, atleast that's what I thought, but calling it "different digital" different to what digital? If there was no digital to start with? I must be missing something.
& plugging the outs of the 500 to the ins of the 500, you would just be sampling what is already inside the 500, which is digital. Yes the out's & in's are analog, so I get I would be recording "an analog signal", BUT I would be recording an analog signal of the digitalized sound inside the 500.
Hopefully the above makes sense. In my head, the in's & out's are analog, but once sampled it becomes digitalized. So I don't see how it's possible to have a fully analog sound when sampling an analog synth into the 500.
I don't think it's possible. I DIDN'T think it was possible. Which is why I was curious as to what motosega meant.
Simple answer: If it was possible to record the outs of the 500 thru the ins of the 500, I see how it would be an analog signal path. But your sampling the digitalized sound inside the 500. So to call it analog doesn't make sense to me. & per IllGreen it isn't possible to plug the out's to the in's of the 500 & sample it (atleast that's what I got from his comment, I could be wrong, I'm checking tonight just to finish this dialog in my head once & for all).
So if it is not possible to plug the out's of the 500 into the in's of the 500. HOW DOES SAMPLING WHILE THE SEQUENCER IS RUNNING MAKE IT ANALOG???????????
My conclusion: IT DOESN'T
Simple answer.
I didn't mean to drag this out & I actually got a lot of good info out of this conversation, hopefully others do too
& if anything I said above is incorrect feel free to let me know, I don't want to spread incorrect info (not saying anyone else did, I apparently just misunderstood).