Well, the first is to do it the traditional way. You hook your sound source (CD Deck, tape player, vinyl deck etc,,,,,,,) into the jacks in the back of your 1000. You choose Mode, then Record and record the sample straight into the unit. But the cool thing about the 1000 is you can use a PC. If you have access to a PC with USB (or a flash card reader), you can rip the song from CD to your PC's hard drive, then transfer it across to the 1000. This means there's no lack of quality and you don't have to mess around with recording levels etc. Any other questions just holla,,,