Saving

How do you guys save all your work. Samples, drums, sequences etc. Its a pretty broad question I guess but my MPC is messy as sh!t. Whats a basic way of saving and organising your sounds??

No offense dames, this one should be in the newbie section

Basically save the Sequence as the same name as the program. Its a million ways to do it its all personal preferences.

Example

Sequence:"Get Crunk"
Program:"Get Crunk"

This will allow u to keep up with what program goes with what Sequence.

ONe

What about making sure you don't double, triple, quadruple etc up on samples. Do you guys do that? For example, I have one program made up of drums and other percussion sounds that I use on most of my beats. When I save the .APS for on particular beat, I'm saving that same program again that I have in alot of my other track's folders. Up until now I haven't really bothered, but I'm thinking I should work something out to save disk space.

save each beat (song, pgs) in separate folders

simple

i do it the lazy way. i don't do folders or anything, i just save everything to the root file or whatever it's called..

i save all sequences and songs, and then all programs and sounds with the same name. i find it to be the easiest method, that way i don't have to keep track of where a specific sample/program/sequence is.

it's easier to load stuff when you have it like this:

#7 all 1
#7 aps 1


#7 all 2
#7 aps 2

etc..


(the # is the number of the zip disk)

when i run out of space on the aps file, i just start a new one and sample everything from scratch.

i usually start from scratch and when i'm done i save the beat in a folder by itself, so when i go to sequence it differently i just open the folder for that song. I also name my samples as i go so if i'm making a beat later that could use something i sampled last week i can go find it and load it as well.

I allways create a new folder for each tune. In that folder goes everything associated with that song. To do this choose "save entire memory" in the save options (MPC 4000). That will save your sequences, programs, samples and multis all to one folder. At the end of each session I save a backup either to CD or to my hard drive using AKAI.SYS. While some complain that this unnecessarily uses up disk space, I think the trade off in ease of use is well worth it. Since it's stored on a .25 cent CD, I don't need to keep it on the hard drive and anyone who has tried to pull together a sequence from a year ago with the data in a number of different areas can tell you how long and frustrating a process this can be. If you can store the data on your PC via AKAI.SYS i'll also reccomend creating a WAV file of the finished product to use as a reference if you ever need to pull the tune up again. It's really helpful on a piece with lots of tracks - especially if you change the configuration of your MIDI setup.