What Are Your Sequence, Sample, Program Saving Technics??

sup brothers and sisters, i'm looking for tips on saving programs sequences and samples, mainly for the mpc-1000 with-out a computer, but also for the best way to go on a pc too.

I know it's possible to save programs and sequences individualy but what are the more efficient ways that you cats are doing thangs and how are you organizing your basic set up.?

do you save all your samples and sequences that you use with a paticular song all together in one folder?

is there a mode command that allows you to do that or makes it easy to keep everything together?

or is it not good to do that because you'll be saving the same samples over and over wasting diskspace?

right now i only have a 128 flash card, but i'll be picking up a hard drive in a few days.

thanks for your help in advance, I used to own a 2000 years ago for a minute and then I went straight software which has been great but at the same time **** my shit up... I've found that the best thing for me is the mixture of the two so now i'm trying to get my shit together with this mpc

hey stale,
I usually "Save Entire Memory" to a folder,
but there's a bug or something when over-writing an existing project,
so when I'm over-writing an existing project, I erase the folder, make a new folder and save the memory to that... or if I'm just working on the sequences, I overwrite the "Songs and Sequences" file into the folder, which doesn't seem to produce any errors.

hope that helps mang!

In my experience (which is limited), I find that just saving the program "with samples", and then saving the sequences, is all you need. If you have samples that you didn't use in your program either decide at that point that they're wack and let em go, or save em seperately.

You can do all that save entire memory s--t but you end up saving all kinds of things that you don't need and that take up a lot of space somewhere. Save your program and save your sequences and it'll take 2 seconds to save and 2 seconds to load, no hassles, no samples coming up chopped weird or out of sequence.

That's my method and I'm sticking to it. By the time I'm done making a beat, I'm way too high to be remebering a bunch of steps!

dj_solo wrote:

That's my method and I'm sticking to it. By the time I'm done making a beat, I'm way too high to be remebering a bunch of steps!

thanks both of you i appreciate it.

If you want your mixer settings and/or effects settings to be saved also, you must use SAVE ENTIRE MEMORY. True, you may end up with multiple copies of some samples, but this is the best way to keep everything organized. It's nice to have all the files for a project saved in that one directory for that project. It makes backing up a song way easier.

Also, the AKAI Operating systems do have a bug in which after a while you will start getting corrupt files as melton mentioned. To avoid this problem (which gets worse over time) you must use the "refresh technique" I described many times in many posts (search for "directory error" or "refresh") or you can install one of the 2 third party operating systems written by "JJ". Either 3.06 or 4.01. 3.06 is free, 4.01 costs $30 and has some extra features. Actually, even the free one (3.06) has some nice extras that are not in the AKAI OS. They can both be found here:

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... n%26sa%3DN

That's the link for the translated page, since the original is japanese. For more info, see the "unofficial MPC 1000 OS" section on this website.

thanks Tbonus, I got the jj os v4.01 yesterday, it's obvious from all of the post that i've read that my $30bucks was nothin for all the work he's doing

I already got my password and have installed the os, where is the best place to find instructions and tips for the os, or is it that the 2500 manual would work better for the 1000 now or what? i'm a little lost. I understand the terms I just need the instructions.

another thing, how do you cats go about making and organizing kits?

Check the sticky at the top of the "Unofficial OS" forum, stan steez made a nice manual there that will get you started. I think there are some new features that he hasn't added to the maual yet, but it's definately a good place to start.

thanks again will check it

Well, when I first started using the mpc I almost lost my beat everytime I tried to save it because i was unfamiliar to the structure of the mpc, because I came from a software-based production background. Nowadays if I want to save a new beat I just select "SAVE ENTIRE MEMORY" and create a new folder. Another option is to Select "SAVE A PROJECT", which does a similar thing. But theres a major Issue with these techniques for me:
Since I am some type of lame I dont give any particular names to any of the programs or sequences I create. So If u load up a beat with Sequence 01 and Program 01 ie, then it works fine. But if u then load up another beats with the same named programs and sequences the beat doesn't work right cause everything get confused by the same naming sceme. THIS SUCKS:... so don't do as I does

thanks stan.

which manual is best for looking up 'programs info' and sampling info for the mpc 1000 with the 4.01 upgrade, it doesn't seem like the latest manual has much in this regard. Does the akai manual or the 2500 manual apply to how to create kits (i'm assuming programs are kits) and about sampling.

I want to create a bunch of kits and learn how to sample my turntables into a sequence while the mpc-1000 is playing.