why?

Why when I save my song in my mpc 1000, and try to load it up later on only the sounds that are in tne internal memory play in my beat, not my sampled sounds.
And when I try to bring what I saved in my mpc to my computer it is unreadable by my computer because it is a .seq file, not .wav

cause a .wav and a .seq file are two completely different things. Read up about it...

did you save the samples to a program and save the program to internal memory or are you using the presets sounds with a few samples. YOu probably have to load the samples from the memory card then try to play the beat again and it will work the way you had made it. Next time save the whole program and all songs/sequences to a folder. That way load up the folder and your in bizness

I've never had so many problems saving something, then trying to reload it back into the machine. I still can't get it right and I've been trying for 4 days. Pro Tools was a snap compared to this. It should be so easy. There's like 9 f***ing pages on saving/loading in the manual. I've read it and re-read it, but something's not flowing. It's very NON-intuitive.

Real easy: Make a folder for where you want your beat to be. Open that folder. When saving always select "Save entire Memory" and always choose "replace existing files." That way whatever changes you might do to settings or whatever while the files are in memory will be saved each time.

When you want to load up the beat just go find the folder, and load up the whole folder at once. Make sure your just not opening up one of the files from within the folder, and you should be straight.

Does that help?

Mindtravel wrote:cause a .wav and a .seq file are two completely different things. Read up about it...

Real interesting sidenote I came upon yesterday. Probably should be in a different thread but oh well.

I dunno if yall are aware of how the .mid files exported by the MPC look, but basically they contain multiple tracks of midi data, one for each track on the MPC. They also contain an additional track labeled MPC1000 or something along those lines. It seems in the past I've had troubles dealing with this MPC track causing disturbances in recording MIDI to Cubase, etc.

Anyhow, I was transfering a beat I did on the MPC to my cellphone as a ringtone. The 1k is great for this because the pads are easily mappable to standard GM drum tones, and the 1k will tell you what GM tone it'll be mapped to. Sweet. So for drums, just assign your tracks to channel 10A and assign the appropriate samples to the appropriate note numbers in Program mode on the Note page, I gues it's called.

So back to the topic at hand:

The program I have for exporting .mids to my celly (a Sanyo 8100) is called FutureDial something or other, cost me like 30 bucks with the transfer cable included. (USB to celly power jack) In the program there's an option for trimming .mid files so if you download .mids from the net or whatever you can just play your favorite part of the song as your ringtone. Kinda like finding a break hehe. Anyway, it lets you demo the mid before transferring it to the phone.

This program apparently reads the MPC1000 MIDI track data and knows how to find the exact samples you programmed on the MPC. So essentially this program plays back the .mid file from the MPC EXACTLY AS IT WOULD SOUND ON THE MPC. (I'm loading the .mid from the same folder on the CF card where I store the programs in use, etc) I've tried altering drum sounds, etc. The weirdest **** thing, I've never heard of it before. I'll post more when I discover more, only spent a few minutes with it yesterday.

Anybody have any input on this subject?

-tank.