Help transfer sequence/song & samples to another sequencer

I have a song in a MPC2000 format with a bunch of sequences and samples on a zip. I need to transfer everything into another software sequencer program, preferably Reason or Ableton Live. Is this possible and what are some of the ways to accomplish this? If I have to transfer separate sequences and reconstruct the song, that would be okay too. Obviously, transferring the wav files would be easy. But as for the midi sequences, would this just be a matter of playing the MPC while synced to the software program and clicking record on a midi track on the software?

Thanks.

I'm not sure if the 2000 saves midi files the same as the 2000xl(smf) but if it does then you can just import the midi file into Reason and insert the NN-XT sampler then higjlight and drag the midi sequence over to the NN-XT midi part, just repeat this for every track. That's the easy part, the hard part is loading all the appropriate samples to the right notes, while this is not too difficult it looks to be very tedious.

Hi. Thanks for the reply. My friend, who owns the MPC2000 I used, says that he's not sure about smf but he said he knows that he can save a sequence as a standard midi file that ends with ".mid" although he's never tried it. Would this also import into Reason just like smf?

Also, what's the best way to bring the samples into Reason? The samples I used in MPC are .wav files stored in my MPC zip disk. But it's my understanding that I can't just load that disk into the computer's zip drive because I would risk erasing data. That's why I have a separate zip disk that I only use for transferring samples from the computer into the MPC only and not the other direction. Or is it still possible to do this if I use another zip disk just for transferring the samples?

I'm pretty sure that the 2000 can save standard midi files as well so yeah you can just load the midi file into Reason.

As far as getting all your samples into Reason, I'm not too sure when it comes to the 2000. I have never had any problems transfering files back and forth from the MPC to the computer but the 2000 might be different. The easiest way I can think to import all samples at once is to convert the .pgm file into a .sxt file(NN-XT format) using Awave Studio. When I've done this I never used the MPC sequence I just imported the samples to start new tracks. Awave doesn't put all the samples on the right notes according to how they were in the MPC so you'll still have to move them around in Reason. Awave might be able to map the samples correctly but I've never tried.

I'm assuming that the MPC song format will not translate to other formats well. I have to convert the song into a single sequence and then save that as a .mid file (assuming this works) to bring into Reason, right?

It would be cool if I could use something like Awave studio but it seems like it's only for PCs and I'm on OS X... I wonder if Propellerheads' Reload utility do the same thing?

There are two types of Standard Midi Files you can use with your sequencer or MPC: Type 0 and Type 1.

Check out the following info fo more details...

"Standard MIDI files using Type 0 store all of the MIDI sequence data in a single track. Type 1 files store MIDI data as a collection of tracks."Type 0 files contain only one track, and all of the MIDI messages (ie, the entire performance) are placed in that one track, even if this represents many musical parts upon different MIDI channels. Type 1 files separate each musical part upon its own track. Both Type 0 and 1 store one "song", "pattern", or musical performance."

Hope that helps.

Peace.

Thanks for that. So it sounds like Type 1 is keeps more data (i.e. separate tracks). But I can't tell from that info whether a MPC song file can be saved directly to a standard .mid file. I guess I'll have to check the manual for that.

Either way, I haven't tried it yet, but I'm fairly sure at this point that I can at least convert the song to a single sequence and then to a .mid file. I'll probably use Type 1.