Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By Living Bate Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:16 pm
Yes!

I have sequenced some beats on Acid, partially made with the MPC and partially looped Audio breaks.....how am I supposed to render it down now? so that I can put them into WAV or MP3?

If I render it, all I get is the audio samples and nothing from the MPC.


Any guidance would be much appreciated,

PEAZ

LB
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By Living Bate Tue Mar 16, 2004 9:16 pm
Ok, seen as people don't seem to be able to answer me....let me try asking in a different way.

Once you have made a nice instrumental on the MPC....how would you go about recording vocals and sequencing it into a song.....and then how would you master the song?


Any help would be mustard!

Nice,

LB

By Toecutter Tue Mar 16, 2004 9:27 pm
You need to record the mpc's outputs into an audio recording multitrack program, like Pro Tools or Cubase or Cakewalk or Logic, and mix it down. What's your setup include besides the MPC? I assume you have a PC since you got acid...
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By Living Bate Tue Mar 16, 2004 9:49 pm
yes!,

I've got my MPC, a pretty shitty 8 channel mixer, and a P.C with Terratec MT soundcard. ( Acid, Cubasis, Cool Edit, Fruityloops, Sound Forge )

Do I have to run the audio back into the computer and save it all as audio then?

I'm new to Midi,...I know what I want to acheive but am finding it difficult to get there.


Nice,

LB

By cashstill Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:11 pm
Living Bate you got all the tools you need sounds like.

Just remember MIDI = data not AUDIO
meaning MIDI is basically messages sent between your
Sequencer, Fruity Loops, and Keyboard.

Yes, you must connect your sound card to the mixer
and use your Sound Forge (or whatever program
you prefer that multitracks) to record the input.

Saving the Sequence on the MPC is only MIDI = Data not Audio.

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By jontakiff Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:40 pm
Here's an easy way to think of this. If you load a sequence on your mpc but no program, the mpc knows what is supposed to play, but there are no sounds assigned to the pads. So when you record midi into a software program, the software program then contains the sequence information. But in order to burn a song that is done in software, all the audio needs to be actually recorded into the computer. So your midi data in the software tells the mpc what to play - at the same time you just record the audio from the mpc through your interface into your computer. Just go into acid or whatever, make sure you get the mpc audio coming into a track - there ya go. Mix it, burn it, done.