Trouble Loading Sounds with Programs

Hi everyone!

Using my MPC2000XL, I've loaded some sounds from disc, created a program and assigned my sounds to some pads. I saved "Sounds and Sequences" but opted not to re-save the sounds ("Save: Program Only") since the sounds already exist (as WAVs) on the disc.

However, when I power cycle the MPC and re-load the program, it tells me that it can't find the sounds (which are in the same directory on the disk as my program.) Oddly enough, if I manually load the sounds one by one and THEN load the program, all of my pad assignments are intact.

From looking at the MPC2000XL manual, it looks like the sounds should be loaded automatically when I load the program but that doesn't seem to be working.

Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? Maybe it's always necessary to "Save Sounds" when saving programs (even if those sounds already exist on the disk)?

Please let me know if I left out any relevant details.

Thanks!

Yeah sounds like you need to save the program & sounds and then the sequences seprately.

Thanks for the response! Any idea why it's necessary to re-save sounds that already exist? It seems odd that there's an option to save the program separately from sounds if the association between the program and sounds isn't going to be preserved...

suicidepills wrote:Thanks for the response! Any idea why it's necessary to re-save sounds that already exist? It seems odd that there's an option to save the program separately from sounds if the association between the program and sounds isn't going to be preserved...

I'm guessing it's just how the code was written for programs, that the sounds are tethered to the program by more than just the filename mabye? But I want to say that I've replaced sounds later with the same name, like in a situation where I wanted to sample the sound again for a better pass. So I'm not entirely sure