Cubase....

Is there anybody running cubase with the mpc 4000 that can tell me how to sync them together so I can dump my tracks.......into cubase!!...

It should be the same as syncing it to a 2000xl, at least on the computer side. Search the 2000xl forum for my name and "sync". I've posted on this a lot.

Hey I figured It out but now I have another problem.....When I record my tracks into cubase I can here popping and clicking sounds....Why is that? Even when I play it back I can here the popping and clicking...Does it have something to do with the interface im using...Its a US-122 Tascam..!

your clock settings are off. Try to use an ASIO driver for your soundcard and under file in prefs there i think is the clock settings.

Try using a higher latency or increase your buffer size.
Go to: Device manager--->VST Multitrack

ok..what is a buffer?

i think it means how much is the computer reads ahead. More would keep it goin steady. I think of it like esp on a cd player. You know the joints with like 40 secs that u can wack it around and it wont skip? kinda like that. If u got a shitty PC though it will slow it up more. The first thing to do is find if ur soundcard has ASIO support. in control panel under system then in device manager u can find out ur brand of soundcard then search for the newest drivers for your card. I think ASIO is for more pro audio soundcard though i might be wrong. But i dont think it offers support for most consumer cards. You can find an ASIO driver that somehow uses DX ish, but im not positive

ASIO is definitely the best audio drivers going right now. (Pro tools may have something better)

Absolutely use ASIO if you can, the audio's sound and quality are much better as is latency for effects and even MIDI. There is quite a difference in sound between ASIO and WDM or Directsound.

I was using asio drivers..... They came with the tascam...I Think its the computer. I have this old Hewlett Packard that has been sitting around for sometime.....So i decided to use it for recording, it only had 128 megs of ram, I put another 128 to bring it up to 256......I also installed windows XP on it, next I installed the tascam along with fruityloops and cubase....and there it was.....When I tried to record in cubase, I got a lot of popping and clicking....Guitar Center told me that I probably needed to udate the drivers or get another version of cubase.....But he said most importantly I needed 512 megs or ram...So I took the computer to a store so they can Install some more ram and they told me I was waisting my money because the processor was a celeron, I asked them could they put a pentium 4 in it and they said It wouldn't fit.... So now Im back at the starting point.....I gotta get a whole new desktop thats fast enough and with a whole lot of memory

If you buy RAM that will fit in a newer pc as well, you're not wasting money. You can recycle it when you upgrade. Most newer pc's use fast DDR RAM now.

Before you do, try optimizing xp for music. Here's some starters, try them one at a time to see if it helps. First, make a backup of important files on your pc.
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Get Windows Service Pack 2 for xp. A lot of soundcard problems have been solved by this update.

Defrag your harddisk(s), even if Windows tells you it's not needed.

Check that you have DMA enabled on the hard drives. (right click My Computer, Properties, Device Manager, expand Disk Drives, right click each hard drive, Properties, Settings, put a tick in the DMA box for each drive)

Stop as many programs as you can that run in the background. Don't run Antivirus software, firewalls and other gimmicks, they eat up RAM.

If your card is usb, don't use it with a hub, or any other devices on one card. If the usb is plugged straight into you motherboard(not on a separate card) pull out all your other usb devices. If your mouse is usb, ask your grandfather for an old ps/2 mouse, or get an adapter usb to ps/2.

Open your soundcards ASIO control panel (this is usually on the taskbar, in the lower-right corner of your screen) and set it to the highest latency available.
One 'must-do' XP tweak is to change Processor Scheduling to 'Background Services' rather than 'Programs' in the Advanced page of the System applet of Control Panel — ASIO drivers for instance run as background tasks, and benefit from the alteration. Intermittent background tasks such as System Restore, screen-savers, and Power Management are also worth disabling, and I still disable the majority of graphic extras because I don't like the sluggish feeling of fading and scrolling menus. The only box I have ticked in the Effects section of Display Appearance is 'Show window contents while dragging', since this makes repositioning the various sequencer windows to fit everything on screen so much easier.
Windows XP's ClearType font smoothing will always provide greater legibility with mainstream packages such as word processors, spreadsheets, and so on, although I've noticed that text scrolling with a few applications is much slower with it activated, and highlighting blocks of text using click and drag sometimes causes a lot of flickering. However, it may or may not improve the legibility of your music software, depending on how its text is created. Menu options, along with load and save dialogues, will always appear crisper. However, many sequencers use predefined bitmap images, in which case ClearType won't make any difference.

Hope this helps.

To hell with that computer ieism......Im having one built that will be fast enough to handle the job....I got a question though.......Is it possible to hook them up together?...I want my slow cpu to run my operating system and the fast cpu to run my recording software.......!!!

Woudn't that be something... No that's not possible. But a new computer should have no trouble running xp a sequencer and some more stuff.
If both computers have a digital in/output, you can run cpu intensive plug-ins on a second computer. Steinberg V-stack does this.

Most of the tips i gave you on tweaking xp are still valid for a new pc.