new to mpc1000, and mpc's in general, need a piece of info

before getting my mpc i was watching a little video clip of someone making a beat using a mpc2000xl...he recorded a sample from a turntable right on the mpc, that part i can do fine, but then he went through right on the mpc and chopped that sample up and mapped it to different pads.....is there no way to do this on the 1000, and if not (which i'm guessing)....is there a way to do it on the pc then transfer it to the mpc

and, how do you check the os, and where can you get updates if needed?

You can chop on the 1000 no problem. The xl has a feature called zoning which breaks up the sample up to 16 equal parts, which isn't the greatest either, but with that feat. it's just a tad easier to chop, especially since you can move the dividing lines independently of each other to get the right chops. Either way, chopping is going to be a lot easier on PC than on any MPC just because it's so much easier using a mouse, etc. and having a big waveform display.

Lou, I think that's a matter of opinion, I never chop on the PC, I do it in my mpc. I play the sample and decide where I want my start and end points to be to make a seamless loop or if I want to chop it into a single note, then assign it to a pad and bang away. This is the dopest thing for chopping drums, because you can chop a breakbeat as a loop, or chop quarter-notes, or even just the individual snares (which I usually do, kicks and snares) and just play your own patterns and sequence them. As for the newbies' question, you can do this on the 1000, just go into the trim screen. Good luck.

Well...There you go! It really depends on your preference.

ok sorry to bother....i would like to learn on the mpc how to do it, just because i plan to be loading up samples on the memory card and travelling with it and chopping it while i'm out and about....


now i don't have the mpc in front of me right now..but what i was doing today was recording from the turntable, then i was able to go into trim and edit the start and end points, but how do i make like multiple start and end points so that i can map those out across the pads?

ok, i think i got it, i'm reading the manual.....is it basically setting the start and end point to the first chop i want to make, then copying that to a new sample, then so on and so on?

i guess that's what was being done in the video i saw, but he did it fast, perhaps the 2000xl has a better feature for doing this

ya xs your talking bout the.... zone feature I think, and the 1k doesnt have it

well you can, but not as easily on the 2k.....you have to copy each chop to a new sample file, then assign each new file to a pad

It takes time, but the easiest way is to take the main sample you want to use before chopping, and save it. Load it, chop it the way you want first, and RENAME IT. Then load it again (original before renaming it), chop the second way you want it, rename THAT, and so on and so forth. This is the way I do it on my old mpc2000 cause the Zoning chop feature is on the XL and not on the old 2000. I can do zone edits like reverse, mute zone, etc though, that the 1000 can't do either but you can do this stuff with software like soundforge if it's necesary. I think I used reverse sample like once or twice, you don't even need it but it may or may not come in handy. Hope this helps.

yeah i've decided i'll mainly just chop in cool edit, since i already have to load it in there to timestretch....but some samples i find i've just recorded right to the mpc and chop in there, a little time consuming...but it's not bad...

i love the mpc though, i bought a chord that i can hook up to my ipod right to the 1/4 ins of the mpc, so i've gone through and put like 30 albums right on my IPOD, then chopped from the MPC while i was at work . i got like no work done, lol