MPC 2000xl Live sets

Aye wassup MPC Forums,

Been thinking about live sets for some of my material recently and was thinking about doing one with the MPC 2000xl... so my question is those of you who have ever performed with your 2000xl what was your method to keep it from just loading one beat at a time and playing them?

Really interested in to the answer of this one

constructed a huge APS program condensing about 30 beats onto it.

i looked at which sounds were occupying which pads -so i could have any number of beats on one of the 1-4 drum programs as long as the pads they use do not clash.

there were MANY different possible combinations -not one was perfect, however. (i tested these by making a graph using a pencil and paper)

i looked at if any of the beats shared the same sounds -bassdrums, snares and hats were often shared, so i amalgamated these beats together.

i then looked at what available pads were left and looked at moving sounds to the blank pads, where previously they were clashing. i would favour moving bassdrums and snare, because they are easy to put back into the beat by over-dubbing.

the whole project was very time consuming and involved a great deal of planning and organisation.

the main advantage of the xl over the classic is the ability to switch between the 4 drum programs, giving you a possible 256 different sounds on 256 different pads.

I went the mega-sequence –one-prgram-only way, was neither easy nor funny, but it worked.
I wanted to have only one sequence and only one program, in order not to have to concentrate on when switching stuff.

So I merged all the sequences in a big one, just saved them all as midifile type 1 in order to be able to edit them with the computer.
The programs.. that was the less funny part. Since I wanted to have everything in one program, I had to merge several programs in one, (lucky there are computer editors) then I had to transpose some parts of the big midifile and change the pad assigments of the sounds accordingly.
Hope this makes sense to you, I can’t explain it better now.
I would orientate myself with tracknames thru the set.
I dind’t have a lot of sounds in the MPC though, most of the sounds were coming out of the rack sampler or the drum machine directly, MPC was more clockmaster and sending midi to the sampler.

Definitely the best option would be to create a huge APS and matching ALL file. Depends on the size of the set and the amount of samples being used. Go through each program, see what sounds you can remove, what sounds can be changed to mono etc. Try to move some stuff over to external MIDI sound sources.

It's kind of fun trying to work out a way to make it all work within the confines of the XL - 32MB memory, 24 programs, 256 sounds. But perhaps think about splitting it into two distinct APS. And look at loading from a SCSI hard disk for extra loading speed.

You could for example have something running from another sampler acting as a bridge between the two parts of the set, just so something continues running in the background while you load up the new APS/ALL, like a drone with some speech on top or similar.

the only other alternative I can think of is getting a second mpc

Thanks for the replies, It is a difficult task to figure, I'm no where closer than I was when I started the Thread aside from a few new beats for it lool.
The thing I'm guessing I'll have to do is Space Jam the shit out of Exile and then make my own live beat making sets or somethin.