Playing the MPC samples from a MIDI keyboard

I had my MIDI keyboard connected to the MPC1000, and it seems to play each of the samples in the current program on a different key of the keyboard. For example, 'kick001' is on the C key, 'kick002' on the D, 'snare001' on the E and so on...

My question is, can you set the keyboard to play different notes of the SAME sample? Sort of how the 16 levels does, but fully mapped out on the keyboard keys instead of MPC pads. I'd like to play my basslines and other melodies this way if possible.

I've already trawled the manual and search pages, can't quite find what I'm looking for!

Thanks

you should be able to if you create a new program overwhich one sample is is chromaticly tuned across the entire range --- ive been thinking of doing this with a vibes sample ive got --- useing blue box should make it very easy -

ya i realized this the otherday when i had my juno hooked up -- took me a half hour to figure out how to stop the sounds heheh -- made me feel silly when i realized i just had to turn off the program -

This will save you a rediculous ammount of time.

http://stereoroid.com/sounds/mpc1000/BLANK-MELODIC.PGM

This very cool dude put this up for all to down load. It is a blank program set up to play chromaticly accross the spectrum of the 1K. Open the program, then "save as" whatever you want the program to be. Start plugging in your samples. When you play them accross the keyboard, all you key, sharps and flats, will be assigned correctly.

Thank Mr. Stereoroid for this one.

Thanks for the advice people.

I'm not totally clear on how this works, but will try it out as soon as I get chance - always find it better to get 'hands on' rather than looking at this screen!

One question though - using this chromatic method, am I right in thinking I have to use the same sample assigned to every pad in the program? So that would mean a seperate program for each sound that I want to use this way?

My original idea was to use an existing program full of different bass samples, but I take it this can't be done (I mean without making a seperate program for each bass sound).

right -- just think of an individual program as an instrument ---- it helps to keep stuff organized and to use differnt "innsstrrumennttss" in differnt tunes ---
so ya - one for drums -- one for the sound of shit hitting a fan -- one the sound of marimba -- ectectect

Haha, yeah I understand that.

But say I have 3 different bass sounds I want to make use of in a song. For example - an acoustic bass, an electric bass, and another random bass.

Do i need to set up 3 seperate programs - one for each sample?
eg.
- BASS01.pgm (acoustic bass - notes assigned chromatically)
- BASS02.pgm (electric bass - notes assigned chromatically)
- BASS03.pgm (other random bass - notes assigned chromatically)

Or can I just use one single program for my 3 different bass samples?

Hope that makes sense.

the ez answer is just use 3 programs, thats what everyone normally does...

of course, if for some reason u need to use an all-in-one program, take advantage of the fact that you may not need the whole range of notes on your bass... if your bassline is only going to take up one octave, then you could just put different sounds into different banks, or whatever.

OR!! you could even use the 4 layers to have different bass sounds and use the Qlink slider to change between different sounds RIIGHTT... but shh that's my secret trick.

in short there are no rules, once you understand all the different aspects of how the mpc works

you prolly only need two octaves at most for each bass sound. so if you have an 8 octave kbd go for it

this allows you to play all sounds without switching program too.

Thanks for the tips, all is clear now!