Sequence memory vs. sample memory

After anxiously waiting for my SODIMM upgrade, I finally got it, put it in and discovered that sequence memory is still only 1.6MB! (But I have gobs of RAM for samples, yay). This is a serious bummer. I'm trying to load an entire set at once, and at least one of my sequences is >500k because of a lot of pitch bend data.

That's the way it is? And,
Any tips for thinning out pitch/mod wheel data?
F**k.

i never use pitch bend on the mpc's sequencer for just that reason...

speaking of reason, are you using it? because if so you might have better luck using reason's sequencer for that purpose - pitch bends, that is.

the only other option i know of is resampling the pitch bends into wav files and just programming em back in. frustrating but it may work for you.

Ouch.

Unfortunately I'm not using reason in the live set, I've got a stack of hardware and the MPC is the heart of the whole thing. I can probably load the whole set if I toss the PB data. The workaround is to sample as you say. Maybe I'll sample the whole damn bassline. I now have 128MB of wav memory after all. Gross.

another thing you could do to work around this is split your sets up and replace the sequences halfway through your set. they load pretty quick since they're so small, so it's not like you're waiting for a slow ass scsi drive to load samples. just a thought.

sequencer memory and sampler memory are the same thing, it's dynamic.

It's all held in RAM correct?

actually, sampling the bassline may not be a bad idea at ALL, because then you could do some chopping stuff and make it even more dynamic.

it'd be a lot of extra work but in the end might be worth it.

if it's just the bassline that you've pitch bent i'd say do it. if there are a lot of pieces you've pitch bent, you may want to find another option.

good luck!

Yeah melton, that might be the thing. Have the two ALL files right up at the root. All the programs and samples for the set will fit no problem, so they can be loaded up front.

Lampdog, there may be a hardware distinction between the two memories. I suspect the sequencer might be using a small onboard SRAM (small, fast, expensive) instead of the SODIMM. But that's a guess. Otherwise why would I only be allowed 1.6MB of sequence data, when I'm sitting with 120MB of free SDRAM?

do u think it would help to edit the pitch bend data and thin it down?
you could probably take out most of it and itd still sound alright.

Akai has confimed that the sequencer memory uses a different RAM:

Adding sample ram doesn't increase the amount of sequencer notes. Sorry but that is a different ram location and not supported for upgrading.

Stinky.

It's a repeating bassline so I could definitely thin one out manually and C&P where it needs to go. That will economize for sure.

Thanks for the ideas guys. I'm still kinda about it. I'll get over it.