saving and floppy and stuff...

What's crackalacking?

2 you guys who use the floppy disc. How do you manage to save your entire song without using a ton of discs??? each time I want to save my song + samples I've chopped, I need to use at least a truck full of discs?

Help please!

I've ordered the MCD driver, but it would be fun to know how people did it back in the day.

Thanks

Don't know what crackalacking means
but i know at one point, for a show i had to load like 18 floppy's hehehe... the old days of the flop
there's no looking back when you have the MCD !

Usually I save my APS on one disc and then keep inserting floppies to save all the samples, at last I save my sequences, and then bundle my floppies together with a rubber band in an descending order.
it's good to have a method anyway, it doesn't matter on what medium your saving your work.
In the studio I always am pretty strict to the hierarchy I organize my work, whether we are tracking to tape or Pro tools, logic, whatever.
Also the way I lay the tracks out on the desk, and the patch bay logistics are pretty important in bigger sessions.
Al this way of working can really influence the way you work and think about certain things.

Always double backup your work twice too....if you don't you'll be pretty sorry someday

Mr Pauli from cbs???
Lol hi man Rproductions here
(just popped in front of the screen @ work)

Marek2kxl wrote:Mr Pauli from cbs???
Lol hi man Rproductions here
(just popped in front of the screen @ work)

Greetingz Robot !
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This is how they did it back in the day.

When you find a sample you wish to record be sure to turn the pitch all the way up on your turntable as well as setting the speed to 45 or 78. This will record the whole sample but in less time (less memory).

After that when your in the trim mode go to parameters and you can slow your sample back down to the speed it should be at or the speed you want it at. You can slow it down even more when you assign the sample to the pads.

This method works especially well with drums, it gives them a grimey fatter sound and you will use alot less floppys



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Yes this is true.... but you half you sampling resolution aswell.... meaning less high freq's

caveman86 wrote:I've ordered the MCD driver, but it would be fun to know how people did it back in the day.

Anybody with any sense or enough dough would have used external SCSI drives. SCSI pre-dates all of the MPC range so it was only cost that would have stopped you.

sample all your stuff at 8bit mono, lol

even the ZIP drives that have bene around for 10+ years are out dated. Get a CF card and you'll never look back.