Some advise please...

Whats up peoples..

Tried to search, but didn't come up with anything..

I recently purchased an MPC 2000XL with a zip drive. I plan on extending the memory. It didn't come with the SCSI cable, so I have to get one. My issue is that I already have tons of samples and sounds in an external HD and in my laptop. I have a MacBook pro, OS X 10.5.8. Is there any way I can connect the MPC straight to my laptop and download the sound files? I also dug up an old Iomega 100 zip drive. If I can't connect straight to the MPC from my laptop, is there a converter cable with modern software that I can use to transfer files to the zip drive?

Please help..I'm eager to get to work on the MPC but not sure how to get my sounds into it.

Thanx.

well here is a couple of options since you cant "network" an mpc2000xl to your computer.

1) get a USB zip drive for you laptop to drop stuff onto the zip disks and get a zip drive for your mpc so you can load the stuff from the zip disks.

or the better option

2) get the compact flash reader installed in the mpc. you could take out that floppy drive since those suck. That way you can hold more data, it is safer on CF cards then floppy, zip, and all that... alo less noise and faster loading.

mr_debauch wrote:get the compact flash reader installed in the mpc. you could take out that floppy drive since those suck. That way you can hold more data, it is safer on CF cards then floppy, zip, and all that... alo less noise and faster loading.

+1

Make sure you get a hot-swappable reader!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Iomega-Zip-100-USB-Drive-Plus-7-Disks-/300428873016?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item45f2f4cd38


A USB ZIP DRIVE 50 BUCKS auction ends 3 hours ( not mine i just had it saved in "watching")


1.hook drive to laptop via usb

2. load your sounds from laptop onto zip disc inside the usb zip drive


3.take zip disk out of drive


4.put zip disc into mpc and load sounds into mpc ram

5. make some beats

k_roc wrote:

mr_debauch wrote:get the compact flash reader installed in the mpc. you could take out that floppy drive since those suck. That way you can hold more data, it is safer on CF cards then floppy, zip, and all that... alo less noise and faster loading.

+1

Make sure you get a hot-swappable reader!

who cares if it is hot swappable or not... when you have a few gigs plugged into your machine it aint like saving a song on 3 floppy disks no more.


and paying 50 bucks for a usb zip drive is stupid. they go for like 10 bucks on ebay.