making .Wave

Hi, I'm new here but not on music, I 've been playing music for a long time now and i decided to get an mpc500
I already have lot of material to make samples. So I cut all my little pieces of sound, and now i have to save them in .wave, but i have few choices, and i don't know what they mean or what to choose, could you help me ?

FORMAT: PCM or GSM

SAMPE RATE : 6000 to 196000

CHANNELS: 1 or 2

Thks,

Herman.

have a look at the mpc manual - it'll tell you what format you machne accepts.

I haven't find it, that's why i ask it here..

Herman Kalkoen wrote:Hi, I'm new here but not on music, I 've been playing music for a long time now and i decided to get an mpc500
I already have lot of material to make samples. So I cut all my little pieces of sound, and now i have to save them in .wave, but i have few choices, and i don't know what they mean or what to choose, could you help me ?

FORMAT: PCM or GSM

SAMPE RATE : 6000 to 196000

CHANNELS: 1 or 2

Thks,

Herman.

Hi Herman.

I don't knwo the 500. But GSM is narrow band audio used primarily to save space. PCM, or pulse code modualtion, is uncompressed and proabbly what you're after. Sample rate need not exceed 44.1kHz (CD Redbook standard) as that is more than enought to catpture frequencies up to 20kHz. Hwoever, you may want to try lower rates for both tone and storage saving reasons. Channels 1, or 2 will liekly mean whether you want to record in mono or stereo.

owh it's exactly what i need to know, thks !