Volume of samples....

Quick question, may be stupid. I have something of a song and I wanna add a sample to it, only the sample is too low in volume to hear it. If I lower the volume of everything else and in my MPC make it all sound how I want it to, when I transfer it to Cubase for mixing and what not, will I be able to export the final mix to the sound I want it to be? Thank you and I'm sorry for all you haters. Peace.

try this.... on the pgm that the sample is on, press the desired pad then press mode+pad7 (program) then tap the pad again until you see the sample name then scroll to the left you should see 70 - you can turn that up to 100

yea...I did that it didnt werk...yo...you gonna be around tomorrow, I keep gettin home from work too late to call you but tomorrow I think I'm gettin out at a reasonable time...I still need to get my ish toCubase and record. Good looking, peace.

Goto Trim and normalize the sample. Its in the manual.

Niceweis914 wrote:yea...I did that it didnt werk...yo...you gonna be around tomorrow, I keep gettin home from work too late to call you but tomorrow I think I'm gettin out at a reasonable time...I still need to get my ish toCubase and record. Good looking, peace.

yeah, i'll be around

both suggestions are correct. infact do both. always normalise ya samps, so u have the option to turn down rather than up.

Niceweis914 wrote:Quick question, may be stupid. I have something of a song and I wanna add a sample to it, only the sample is too low in volume to hear it. If I lower the volume of everything else and in my MPC make it all sound how I want it to, when I transfer it to Cubase for mixing and what not, will I be able to export the final mix to the sound I want it to be? Thank you and I'm sorry for all you haters. Peace.

why does it have a low volume?

you should try to record it louder in the first step - ....because you CAN raise the volume afterwards in cubase (normalizing).

BUT you also raise the noise floor - which basically means that every sample you record has "noise" on it.

The louder you sample your stuff (without distorting it) - the "bigger" is the gap between the noise and your useful signal.

If you record it very low - the gap gets smaller.
Your signal might be just as loud as the noise that gets recorded.

when you raise the volume (normalizing is just an other form of turning the volume knob up) - you also raise the noise.

So you have to keep an eye on that - because it can **** up your sample.