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By Milk Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:30 am
I recently bought an MPC 1000 and upon plugging it into my computer via midi I found the pads did not correspond with the virtual pads of my DAW. For instance I hit pad 9 on my MPC and on my virtual pad it thinks I'm hitting pad 13. As well as this the samples on my DAW won't even play when I control with the MPC. If anyone can help me out it'd be very appreciated.
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By Lampdog Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:11 pm
Yes, a blank chromatic PGM template.

Everytime you start a project, use that template.
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By Lampdog Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:16 pm
That's a really old workaround that alot of us have been doing for years.
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By Lampdog Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:14 pm
16 level is not chromatic. Each pad skips a few keys if you match it to a keyboard.

16 levels is not mapped to notes in the mpc, it's mapped to one note while it's on.

Chromatic program is a whole keyboard where each note is represented with 1 pad.

16 level and chromatic programs are nothing alike.
By dcook79 Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:32 am
I understand that they aren't identical. Just found the MPC root midi note assignments non-linear and was questioning the logic in it.


BTW i couldn't save the chromatic .pgm (says No wave data).....DUH, I just want to save a program with new note assignments. Have you encountered this.....?
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By Lampdog Wed Jan 13, 2010 4:24 am
No, I haven't encountered that problem.

Can't you save a single small wave on it and be done with it, cmon man.
By Milk Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:50 am
I have been able to put them into chromatic order but there is still no sound coming from my computer when I play a sample on my computer with the MPC as a midi device. Any ideas to that?
By dcook79 Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:07 pm
Lampdog wrote:No, I haven't encountered that problem.

Can't you save a single small wave on it and be done with it, cmon man.



True True,

i suppose, it'll be on a drum layer that won't get used anyways........
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By Lampdog Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:20 pm
I've always done that on my 2kxl, never had that problem though. After you load the chromatic
pgm, you can overwrite the sample with a useful one.