needin' some help

so i need a little advice in terms of sampling, looping, and stuff like that. basically, when i sample a couple a differnent phrases and loop the ****...what is the best way to sequence tracks....is it better to have one loop on track 1, another on track 2, etc....and lay out all the tracks i have on the first sequence, and mute the tracks that i don't need on the first sequence, and then copy the sequence to sequence 2, and unmute some tracks, and so on....or am i missing something? also, is there a way to get several different looped samples to match tempos without changing the pitch of the loops?? cause say i got a loop and another loop...and the only way for the two to match tempos is to change the pitch. and i either have to increase the pitch on one, or decrease the pitch on the other. this sucks cause sometimes upping or downing the pitch can really **** up the sound from what it was originally. anyway, any basic feedback would be cool. peace.

It appears that other than how to match the tempos of various samples that you already know how to arrange your sequences. Yes the way you described copying and muting tracks within sequences is a very good technique. As for matching BPMs' after sampling your sound or in the event that you already have the sound sampled in turn on the loop mode and go to the param screen. In this screen you can match the sample to your current tempo.

Regarding sequencing, I do the same as you.
Regarding tempo matching, like you said, pitching samples can screw up the sound badly. If you are a patient person, you can try to use the timestretchin function. Personally, I never use it cause after 2 or 3 times sitting stupidly for minutes in front of my silent MPC, waiting to discover that my new sound is evrything but what I need, I often contemplate ripping off the damn machine with an axe. So I avoid using samples with very different tempos. If possible, I use different samples from the same original song. Then what I do is cutting the sample into very tiny parts (isolate notes if possible) and recompose it completely when recording. In addition do resolving tempo problems, that allows to make more complex variations.

This is an off topic post in this thread, but something just hit me.

Akai must've seriously improved their timestretching algorithms pretty quick, because the s5000/6000 only came out like 2 or at most 3 years after the 2000XL. I've never had a timestretch take over 30 or 40 seconds on my s5k, and several of my samples I've tried this with are 4 bars long.

Just thought it strange, since I've never thought of how different the engines must be for these two machines. I have a pre-XL 2k and so can't compare myself, but I've always read posts of people complaining of it taking forever.

Ah well.

Peace!

-tank.