IN PLAIN ENGLISH converting SEQ to WAV

can someone please help with this i am fustrated and im in desperate need of someone telling me exactlyhow to convert seq files to wave files..IM a newbie just in need of some help

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Let me try to clarify something, so that you understand the concept better..

You can't actually convert a sequence to a WAV. That is because a sequence only has half the information u need. The sequence contains timing information, and info about which samples are used BUT it doesn't include the sample waveform data or the program data.

So to accomplish your goal, what you really do is Play Back the SEQ on your MPC... the MPC will combine the SEQ information with the sounds and programs it has.. and create audio output... then you resample this audio into a WAV file.

That is why, if you just copied the SEQ file to your PC, u are screwed... there is no way to just convert it. You must use the MPC to put the pieces together... then record what it did into a WAV... then transfer that to the PC.

^^^^ What he said!

record what you have (in the mpc) into some kind of recorder (hardware/software) and do it that way.

can the mpc4000 do this?

i dont know much about the 4000 but i dont see why anyone would want to convert a sequence to a wav when a sequence is just that....the sequence.

there's a serperate process for getting your sequences down to a format like .wav or .mp3 which is called recording.

record what you have sequenced into some kind of recorder and eventually save what you have in one of those formats.

yes thats true but it would be cool and easier if it could do it , eg. convert all your 8 bar sequence of a track, to Wave , then burn them on a CD and take it to the multitack or PC , then just copy and paste the 1, 8 bar sequence to the length of 4 minuets , it would save a lot of time for recording each track from mpc out to PC .

yes it would and if akai asked me for a christmas wish that would be one of them!

along with a cd drive for loading/burning on the 2000!!

what MPC r u using first of all?

"yes thats true but it would be cool and easier if it could do it , eg. convert all your 8 bar sequence of a track, to Wave , then burn them on a CD and take it to the multitack or PC , then just copy and paste the 1, 8 bar sequence to the length of 4 minuets , it would save a lot of time for recording each track from mpc out to PC ."

That is really a poor use of equipment.

If you wrote a song on the PC using your method and someone told you that you need to change the kick then you are in for a LOT of rework (aka writing a song twice).

Otherwise, keep your work in the most basic form for repeat playbacks. If you are working with midi and s@mples, then keep using midi and expand it into an entire song with those s@mples. Even after this is complete, you can make a significant change to the song with a simple operation (like change one sample, or change it's level, or add an effect).

In some cases at the studio, we have asked an artist to rework a simple single track (maybe it was a kick track clipping), but they no longer had the original midi track and s@mples. It is fixable in post production by sending the track through an audio trigger system that will fire off new s@mples that get recorded and will end up replacing the bad track. But that is wasted time, a hassle and stacks up a premium charge$$ against the artist for something that they could have fixed in about 10 seconds had they used got composing techniques.

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3000 i kinda understand what you mean. but do you mean that a person should start tracking the stuff out? like to individual tracks so you can later pull it back up and change what you need to about it?

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Smoove03 wrote:3000 i kinda understand what you mean. but do you mean that a person should start tracking the stuff out? like to individual tracks so you can later pull it back up and change what you need to about it?

I take that just how he said it, keep the music at it's most basic form in case of re-work. ie. a seq in the 2kxl. Save and keep it as that in case you need to touch it up. If you make a complete wave file and ONLY bring that to the studio and they need re-work something then you maybe azzed out. Redoing the seq is easiest.

- telling me exactlyhow to convert seq files to wave files
- can the mpc4000 do this?
No, stop speculating and wishing. No MPC that I know
can CONVERT a seq to wav.

AMEN