Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By ttaralli Sat Sep 27, 2003 4:02 pm
I have a 2000XL and a Motif 6 and I'm trying to use the MPC as my main sequencer.

However lets say I record 3 tracks using 3 Motif sounds for those 3 tracks, will the MPC remeber the patches?

In other words will it remember track 1 is grand piano, track 2 is standard drums, track 3 is electric bass? and if so how do I save it like this?

I keep trying to do it and it will only save my sequences and never the patch memory. please help thank you.

By cooocooo1 Mon Sep 29, 2003 1:07 am
If you use the MPC to change the patches in the Motif the MPC will remember the voices but it won't recall the bank number. I get around this by saving the voice/bank info in the motif as a pattern and naming it the same as the sequence in the MPC. Whenever I want to load up that sequence I just load up the pattern on the Motif as well and everything is there. I'm pretty sure there's an easier way to do this but I gave up trying figure it out a long time ago.

By thynctank Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:51 am
I do the same thing as cooocooo1 with my Karma. Create a song file and fill it up with various programs and effects settings, then save it and sequence it all on the MPC. (I do occasionally sequence entirely on the Karma, however)

-tank

Bysmitty-soul Mon Sep 29, 2003 9:12 pm
I got a motif 8 and I do the same thing just make sure you store the sounds in the motifs mixer. It gotta be like track one on the motif is device 1a on the MPC!!!

By tmay Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:30 am
OK so what do you do when you are using another module besides the motif

By famekeyz Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:01 am
if you have more then one keyboad youll just need to make that known on the mpc and name a folder motif and triton so you know what you are looking for and where it came from, easy! when you have only one keyboard then youll find it not hard to find what your looking ill creat a folder on the mpc and name it (jumpoff) then on the motif ill do the same thing. since motif song mode can hold about 64 songs you will only use it for songs your gona runn out of seq space on mpc just for the fact youll use more than one seq space to get stuff to sound right so what i do is on my motif name the song mode file as jump off(thats all 64 spaces) and like i said with the mpc name the seq mode folder the same thing jumpoff. Now on the motif when i use a seq space i might call that song MPC banger ill do the same thing on the mpc. now the catch here is the fact that you know youll use up more space on the mpc then the motif so what you do is when you fill up the 99 slots on th the mpc you might of only used 15 on the motif so now just create a new 99 spaces on the mpc and call it jumpoffpart2 or whatever just to let yourself know this is a cont. of the first part and if you didnt find the beat on the first 1-99 is should be in the next. since this is in a folder it keeps everything away from each other clear. so all in a nut shell this is what i do create a fold on the mpc and open it turn my motif go to song mode make beat on the mpc and the motif when it comes time to save it ill just use a user space on the motif and how ever many i need on the mpc....ill name them both the same thing from there ill have the saveall on the mpc ill name a sub name of what ever i name my folder jumpoff1 on the motif ill just name the allsong as jumpoff( because when the 64 slots get filled i just start a new name)save all my mpc kits and what not in folder called jumoff. this make it easy to find stuff and keep it away from others....