MPC 500, not able to save sequences

I recently bought an MPC 500 through craigslist.
It works fine, I used the manual and taught myself to make a sequence
from samples I had saved onto my computer. But when I tried to save the sequence, it showed up on my computer as a quicktime file of some awful keyboard demo. Nothing to do with my beat. I used a ray charles string sample and chopped david bowie drums, and I get a 10 second computer drum solo. So I ordered a new memory card offline, cause my original one is an "MPC Sound Library." But when I got the new one it did the same thing, I made the same beat and it gave me a different keyboard demo.

I really gotta get this shit working, cause I have so many ideas and samples taken, but I never make beats cause whats the point if I can't save them.

Can anyone help me out?

when you save create a new folder and same entire project in to it....youll have folders everywhere nut it works son!!!!!

Once your in the new folder 'page' make sure you are in the root of your files. It will make finding things way easier.

what exactly do you mean?

i just made a beat right now, tell me what im doing wrong

-mode
-save
then it says Save:Sequence
Sq:02-Sequence02

i hit do it
Save to
Fil:Sequences (which is the folder i created for a song)
and it says Files Saved!!

But then I open up the folder on my computer and try to listen to the sequence and it plays me a quicktime file of keybaord drums

harry wrote:

I recently bought an MPC 500 through craigslist.
It works fine, I used the manual and taught myself to make a sequence
from samples I had saved onto my computer. But when I tried to save the sequence, it showed up on my computer as a quicktime file of some awful keyboard demo. Nothing to do with my beat. I used a ray charles string sample and chopped david bowie drums, and I get a 10 second computer drum solo. So I ordered a new memory card offline, cause my original one is an "MPC Sound Library." But when I got the new one it did the same thing, I made the same beat and it gave me a different keyboard demo.

I really gotta get this **** working, cause I have so many ideas and samples taken, but I never make beats cause whats the point if I can't save them.

Can anyone help me out?

You could record your beats and track them out in like cubase, or adobe audition through an interface. & then just save them onto your computer.

lol are you serious? that shit is **** up!

its probably just you saving something in the wrong place though, whenever i start a new beat, i make my folders when my mpc is plugged into my computer, so ill have a new beat called say guitars, so i make a folder called guitars on my memory card when its plugged into my computer, then i will make a subfolder inside that called SAVED and another one called chops or something like that (with all my chops in it because i chop using soundforge), then when i unplug my mp from my comp, i just go to the folder called "guitars" and load all my chops that are in the subfolder inside it using "load folder" then i make a sequence and save it into the "SAVED" subfolder inside my folder called "guitars"

hope that helps!

i just did exactly what you do...
i plugged in the MPC to the computer
made folder "Beats"
made subfolder "Beat 01"
then made subfolders "SAVED" and "Chops" inside Beat 01
then i loaded the folder Chops with 4 samples in it
made a sequence with the 4 samples, and saved it to SAVED
and it still gives me some dumb shit
it gave me the same "beat" - except it wasnt my samples, it was keyboard drums
and the string sample was just a keyboard cymbal instead
thanks for your help, im just pissed off that i keep wiping the dust off my MPC every week and making the same beat but i can't **** save it

You have to make a new folder go to save then all programs and samples and then all sequences and songs in that same folder.

I am having the same issue on my 1000. I have all these great sequences and I drag them to my computer but they are not playable on the computer. Sometimes I get those cheesy wav. clips when I try to play the sequences on my computer.

Maybe you have to save the sequences after turning them in songs in song mode?

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the guy named Malignant Aura who posted was right.

i had this problem when i first got the 500 and didn't know what i was doing




you can't just bring your sequence straight from the mpc to the computer and listen to it there, because its just data.

you have to record it

if you don't have any DAW, download audacity. connect your mpc to your computer using the outs of the mpc and some sort of interface to the computer, (or audio in, but thats not good quality at all), and record your song in

You guys might need to re-read the manual or play around with your MPC's a little more. I read a tip on here about recording your songs straight onto the MPC. You go into record mode (MODE-PAD 4) and you select the parameter "Record" to Main. Than you just hit play on the sequence or song that you wish to record. After recording what you want, hit the DO IT button one more time to end the recording process, and it will ask you to save the sample. Save it to where you desire, this will be the sound bite that you have recorded or song.

sounds like people are saving their sequences as Standard Midi Files, which quicktime will then open and play using some default sounds (maybe General Midi? I dunno)

you should save as type SEQ not MID, and don't expect to be able to play it on your computer

drunkmonkey5556 wrote:the guy named Malignant Aura who posted was right.

i had this problem when i first got the 500 and didn't know what i was doing




you can't just bring your sequence straight from the mpc to the computer and listen to it there, because its just data.

you have to record it

if you don't have any DAW, download audacity. connect your mpc to your computer using the outs of the mpc and some sort of interface to the computer, (or audio in, but thats not good quality at all), and record your song in

I'm reading this thread the same way as DM. You absolutley cannot create a sequence, save the sequence, and then play the sequence file on the computer. You need to either record into a daw or wav editor, or look in the manual for resampling.

The MPC DOES NOT render like some computer programs. You have to record the audio to hear it.

cozy wrote:You absolutley cannot create a sequence, save the sequence, and then play the sequence file on the computer.

I think part of these guys' problem is that you can save a sequence and play it on the computer, but it saves a .smf file (standard midi file) and that only contains midi note info, not audio. Some computers will have Quicktime associated with .smf files, so it makes people think they can open it. But what they get isn't what they expect:

harry wrote:it showed up on my computer as a quicktime file of some awful keyboard demo

dsherm wrote:Sometimes I get those cheesy wav. clips when I try to play the sequences on my computer

These guys don't realise that MIDI is NOT AUDIO