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ByTheWelfareLine Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:19 pm
alright this is gonna be a long one but here it goes.....

My buddy (who runs a studio) and myself just finished recording a really experimental electronic album (i.e keyboards through distortion pedals etc.). We have decided to continue with this project so therefore we need a way to perform this stuff live. We recorded our whole record through a Trident 80B into Steinbergs Nuendo. we would set a basic project tempo and make loops and then basically construct the song. we purchased an AKAI MPC 2000 with the full 32Mg upgrade and a zip drive thinking that this would be the best way to perform live, we plan to load the individual loops for each song onto a zip disk and then load them into the mpc and trigger them live....so in a clearer form here are some of my actual questions

1. The MPC at max can only hold 32MB of samples in it at one time. some of our song loops files are much larger than this (the largest being around 80MG) does anyone know if with the MPC whether or not you are actually able to trigger samples from the ZIP drive or if they actually have to be loaded into the sampler.

2. The MPC has the SCSI interface on the back for connecting the zip drive, I was wondering if it would be more beneficial to buy a CD drive and then just load stereo wavs of the complete song files as wavs

By blowout dome Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:55 pm
I dont know about your second question but as far as the first you might want to consider trading in you mpc2k for the 1k. It can be upgraded to 128mb instead of 32.

By misterv Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:17 pm
or even MPC 4000, it can go to 512 MB of RAM, i think that would be the best thing for you
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By ieism Tue Jul 20, 2004 3:52 pm
Have you considered Ableton Live? It's really designed for this type of stuff. A laptop with a good soundcard should serve you better in this case than any mpc.
Buying a 4k just to do a few live gigs does not sound that smart to me...