No multisampling?? So how do you create melodies on that thi

As there is no multisampling on the MPC1000 I wonder if you can create whole songs with the MPC1000 like with other MPCs. I mean, if you cannot multisample then what other possibility you have making a (simple) melody with your hooked up midi keyboard.
Lets say i want to take a saxophone or piano sample and play a simple melody to my beats. Is there any way to map the sounds in different pitches to the keyboards keys?

yeah, it's a **** ain't it?

I dont think that is what multisampling is...On the 2000xl, multisampling just allows you to take a sound, and re -create it at a different bit rate or something so it is grittier.

you're wrong.

There's a multisampling tutorial on this site I just found called MPC-Tutor.com that explains the process in some detail. It's a pretty good site...worth checking out.

Insectpossewillbecrushed wrote:There's a multisampling tutorial on this site I just found called MPC-Tutor.com that explains the process in some detail. It's a pretty good site...worth checking out.

Yeah, that site MPC-Tutor.com is really good - you should check out their forums, much better than this one....

rickreed wrote:I dont think that is what multisampling is...On the 2000xl, multisampling just allows you to take a sound, and re -create it at a different bit rate or something so it is grittier.

No, that's re-sampling

denis4320 wrote:As there is no multisampling on the MPC1000 I wonder if you can create whole songs with the MPC1000 like with other MPCs. I mean, if you cannot multisample then what other possibility you have making a (simple) melody with your hooked up midi keyboard.
Lets say i want to take a saxophone or piano sample and play a simple melody to my beats. Is there any way to map the sounds in different pitches to the keyboards keys?

As pointed out in the previous post, have a read of that great tutorial on that other site

Only the MPC4000 has true multisampling capabilities, but we can do something quite reasonable on the 2kxl, but it has to be done pad by pad. The MPC1000 will also allow this, although it does not appear to have velocity sensitive attack and filter, so it wont do the job quite as well as the XL.

There's some multisampled bass sounds on the site

http://www.mpc-tutor.com/akai-mpc-sounds/multisamples.htm

and there'll be some rhodes and piano packs ready in around a week.

that sounds not too bad to me. so tutor, can those packs which are offered on this site be used with the MPC1000. im just asking this as it relates to my other thread on this site about formats. can the MPC1000 use those packs made for the MPC2000XL?

No - those packs are in MPC SND format, as this makes them compatible with the standard MPC2000 (the MPC2000 will not load WAV files as part of a PGM). MPC1000 sounds will need to be in WAV format.

We're relaunching the main site in a couple of weeks and will eventually be offering kits for the MPC1000 (i.e. once it's been released by AKai, so probalby early December).

Damn turor, that really really sucks. After reading the manual I'm starting to realize what you said on a previous post - something like this - "the mpc 1000 is a groove box..." i'm glad I have access to a mpc 60. I was gonna actually make the mpc 1000 my standard unit.
Guess if you want quality equipment you gotta pay the price for it.

I dont really think it's a groove box - it just seems like Akai are aiming it at the groovebox market/buyer. I think it's basically a good product with a few strange design decisions like the lack of backward compatibility - I really can't see how any existing MPC user could incorporate it into their set up without a lot of late nights cursing and re-setting their old programs and params.

I think Akai are phasing out the proprietary formats deliberately. Also, based on some of the 2000xl features that - according to the manual - seem to be missing from the 1000, I think the 1000 is really geared towards users that already do production work with a computer. The 1000 is not as much of a standalone machine as previous MPCs in that respect but it’s a great component for anyone that doesn’t currently have an MPC in their setup.

Which is why I’m all over it :)

Oh...No doubt...My bad, I just saw somethin' somethin' sampling...So I immediately thought it was what the 2000xl did that the 2000 did not (one of the features) Anyway, sorry to contribute the non-sense. I will think more before I post about some stuff I dont know next time (multisampling).

Peace!

As far as I know (someone correct me if I'm wrong...I've never used the 2000) multisampling actually is a feature that the 2000xl has but the 2000 does not...along with re-sampling and timestretch.

The only reason I can think of for these features being left out of the 1000 is so that Akai can bring out an MPC in the near future that sits between the 1000 and the 4000, fully replacing the 2000xl.