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By Danoc Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:26 am
Which MPC can resample your drum pattern as a wav? I would like to make loops then sample the loops inside the MPC, but do the loop sections separate like Kick, snare, hihat all are separate. Transfer it over using a zip disk and bring them up into Record/Reason on separate tracks and maintain my bar length and individual tracks. Which MPC does that? Anyone know? I have the MPC 2000XL.

Thanks.
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By Coz Sat Dec 18, 2010 1:37 pm
The 2500 and 1k can do it... Maybe the 500 too?

You have to mute what you don't want recorded and also trim the start of the recording manually, but it's a nice feature.

It's all drag and drop over USB. 8)
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By The Grublet Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:25 pm
whyyyyy do this?
:cry:



5k does it nicely.
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By Danoc Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:46 pm
Coz wrote:The 2500 and 1k can do it... Maybe the 500 too?

You have to mute what you don't want recorded and also trim the start of the recording manually, but it's a nice feature.

It's all drag and drop over USB. 8)


500? I don't see the MPC 500 doing that but the 2500 I can see. Well if I make my drum pattern and it starts off on the one why is there trimming at the start? But if that's the case I would just do it. Now that's nice to drag and drop over usb on to my Mac desk top then import the file into Record, that would be so so so nice. I am going to look into that.
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By mr_debauch Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:51 pm
The Grublet wrote:whyyyyy do this?
:cry:





so the song takes up 10 times more ram.

oh, I know some people use it to convert their entire mpc project to a wav file so they can burn it on the computer or what not.
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By The Grublet Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:21 pm
the 5k can "resample your drum pattern as a wav"

but im saying.... if you got an xl... slave the mtc and track... why would you want to save a "snare loop" which would just consist of 2 to 4 snares on the 2's and '4s ..

just save one snare in the xl as a .wav.


if you want to save a high hat loop... track it in while slaved... edit length to 2 or 4 bars, and export as .wav to your file of choice...


why would you want the drum machine to do it..... doesn't weezun autochop for you anyway>? ???


by the time you did it on the xl, then saved to zip, then uploaded from zip, then import to reason..... you could have had your whole beat tracked by then on separate tracks.
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By Danoc Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:43 pm
The Grublet wrote:the 5k can "resample your drum pattern as a wav"

but im saying.... if you got an xl... slave the mtc and track... why would you want to save a "snare loop" which would just consist of 2 to 4 snares on the 2's and '4s ..

just save one snare in the xl as a .wav.


if you want to save a high hat loop... track it in while slaved... edit length to 2 or 4 bars, and export as .wav to your file of choice...


why would you want the drum machine to do it..... doesn't weezun autochop for you anyway>? ???


by the time you did it on the xl, then saved to zip, then uploaded from zip, then import to reason..... you could have had your whole beat tracked by then on separate tracks.


ummmmm not really just doing drums AN ENTIRE WHOLE TRACK actually. I do that through Protools, I want to cut out THE MIDDLE MAN (Protools) You got it?
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By The Grublet Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:47 pm
i get it...


im just saying, being an xl guy myself, the xl is not going to do it.
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By Danoc Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:52 pm
Danoc wrote:
The Grublet wrote:the 5k can "resample your drum pattern as a wav"

but im saying.... if you got an xl... slave the mtc and track... why would you want to save a "snare loop" which would just consist of 2 to 4 snares on the 2's and '4s ..

just save one snare in the xl as a .wav.


if you want to save a high hat loop... track it in while slaved... edit length to 2 or 4 bars, and export as .wav to your file of choice...


why would you want the drum machine to do it..... doesn't weezun autochop for you anyway>? ???


by the time you did it on the xl, then saved to zip, then uploaded from zip, then import to reason..... you could have had your whole beat tracked by then on separate tracks.


ummmmm not really just doing drums AN ENTIRE WHOLE TRACK actually. I do that through Protools, I want to cut out THE MIDDLE MAN (Protools) You got it? why would I want to save one snare, i have the one snare already. I want the same loop process that I did on the MPC so I would do each track individually. I want it just as I played the track on the MPC so when I drop it in Record it will sound the same. You can't get note repeat and get wicked on a midi controller as you can on an MPC. That's why I asked, but now I have my answer it's off to the races. :-)
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By Danoc Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:59 pm
The Grublet wrote:i get it...


im just saying, being an xl guy myself, the xl is not going to do it.


LOL Well I know the XL is not going to do it because I have one too lol The thing is I don't want to use quarter inch going through my O2R and then from there litepipe out to my 003Rack. I want to stay in a digital domain. keep my drums 24bit and with the 5000 it can do 24bit I believe then I can bring it all straight into Record without having to record over cables.
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By mr_debauch Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:25 pm
Danoc wrote:
The Grublet wrote:i get it...


im just saying, being an xl guy myself, the xl is not going to do it.


LOL Well I know the XL is not going to do it because I have one too lol The thing is I don't want to use quarter inch going through my O2R and then from there litepipe out to my 003Rack. I want to stay in a digital domain. keep my drums 24bit and with the 5000 it can do 24bit I believe then I can bring it all straight into Record without having to record over cables.


oh I think you are thinking of the 4000 maybe?

also, if that resampling your sequenced small samples into longer larger loops then you may want the 4000 anyways because it has 3 times more ram then the model below it.
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By Danoc Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:34 pm
mr_debauch wrote:
Danoc wrote:
The Grublet wrote:i get it...


im just saying, being an xl guy myself, the xl is not going to do it.


LOL Well I know the XL is not going to do it because I have one too lol The thing is I don't want to use quarter inch going through my O2R and then from there litepipe out to my 003Rack. I want to stay in a digital domain. keep my drums 24bit and with the 5000 it can do 24bit I believe then I can bring it all straight into Record without having to record over cables.


oh I think you are thinking of the 4000 maybe?

also, if that resampling your sequenced small samples into longer larger loops then you may want the 4000 anyways because it has 3 times more ram then the model below it.


Yeah well I looked at the 4000 when it came out did they ever fix that note repeat on that thing? Because when it came out it wasn't working. Plus that thing is to dang on big lol hahahah lol I mean how much ram do the 5000 hold?
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By mr_debauch Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:38 pm
Danoc wrote:
mr_debauch wrote:
Danoc wrote:
LOL Well I know the XL is not going to do it because I have one too lol The thing is I don't want to use quarter inch going through my O2R and then from there litepipe out to my 003Rack. I want to stay in a digital domain. keep my drums 24bit and with the 5000 it can do 24bit I believe then I can bring it all straight into Record without having to record over cables.


oh I think you are thinking of the 4000 maybe?

also, if that resampling your sequenced small samples into longer larger loops then you may want the 4000 anyways because it has 3 times more ram then the model below it.


Yeah well I looked at the 4000 when it came out did they ever fix that note repeat on that thing? Because when it came out it wasn't working. Plus that thing is to dang on big lol hahahah lol I mean how much ram do the 5000 hold?


well the 4k is not that much bigger then the 5k shelf space wise... the 4k is 512mb ram max and the 5k is 192mb ram max I believe.

also the 4k is the only machine that does the 24 bit you mentioned you required for your project.

now the 5k seems to have it's issues, some people work around them and some dont get them while others wind up with ruined lives filled with misery because of them...

I am sure they fixed the note repeat since back in the day..... southern artists who cant make hihat tracks without note repeat use the feature all the time.
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By The Grublet Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:41 pm
want to use quarter inch going through my O2R and then from there litepipe out to my 003Rack. I want to stay in a digital domain.



good logic.


I use my lightpipe in on my 003 for my mackie onyx 800r

I run a tascam m-520 with 8 bus channels out to the 8 (db25 line in) xlr's... then let the onyx do the A to D conversion...


It sounds sweet.


keep in mind... what does your A to D conversion is WHERE you get your sound quality.



everything will be 24 once it hits protools... it matters how it gets there, however.