Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By Incognito Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:21 pm
Ok, what happens is, i got my sample, bassline and drums loaded up on my MPC2000 and everything's gravy but then I find out that when I play my sequence and loop it, its all good and in place, but when i say LOOP: OFF, my bassline keeps playing for an additional 2 bars AFTER the loop has stopped, even tho' both sample and bassline is 4 bars.

What can have happened??

peace.
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By featherboy Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:42 pm
???? Is the bassline a long sample or a midi sequence ?
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By Incognito Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:44 pm
featherboy wrote:???? Is the bassline a long sample or a midi sequence ?

its a .wav file sample

i just made the bassline in Reason 3.0 and threw it on the MPC
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By dj dcypher Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:43 pm
if the bassline is one single sound it will play until the end of the sound when you press the stop button..... this is normal.

You can do a few different things to stop this....

1 - shift + F5 to open the trim screen, that stops all sounds....

2 - use a blank pad to stop the sound, in the porgram parameters screen high light the poly/mono and open window.

3 - use Note Off for the bassline, this will turn the sound off as soon as you press stop.
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By Krux Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:13 am
dj dcypher wrote:2 - use a blank pad to stop the sound, in the porgram parameters screen high light the poly/mono and open window.

I don't know about anyone else but when I do this the pad has to have a sound assigned to it otherwise it won't mute the other sample. So I just assign a drum hit or something and turn the level all the way down.
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By featherboy Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:04 am
^^^^^ A sample that is a few milliseconds of silence will work too ^^^^
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By Incognito Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:27 am
dj dcypher wrote:if the bassline is one single sound it will play until the end of the sound when you press the stop button..... this is normal.

Yes. And that is why im confused.

My bassline IS only 4 bars long, just as the sample but its like I somehow "doubled" the sound.... I dunno
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By M.ic P.ro C.rusher Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:53 pm
When you saved your sample on the PC, did you save the loop properties to play the loop a certain amount of times, or ifninite?
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By Incognito Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:47 pm
M.ic P.ro C.rusher wrote:When you saved your sample on the PC, did you save the loop properties to play the loop a certain amount of times, or ifninite?

I just took my 4 bar bassline and put it on a zip disc and opened the file on the MPC.

It should be all good but somehow it isnt... Its not that big of a deal - it just makes NO sense to me :shock:
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By ^Owni Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:56 am
Cookie Monsters Are Taking Over!! :shock:
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By M.ic P.ro C.rusher Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:21 pm
Incognito wrote: I just took my 4 bar bassline and put it on a zip disc and opened the file on the MPC.

It should be all good but somehow it isnt... Its not that big of a deal - it just makes NO sense to me :shock:


Maybe the sample is for some wierd reason, longer than you meant. When you play the entire sample in TRIM mode, is it the right length? Other than that, maybe its triggered a second time at the beginning of bar 3, so it runs to the end of bar 6.

^Owni wrote:Cookie Monsters Are Taking Over!! :shock:


Funny, I was just thinking that same thing...