I know it is in here but.....

I am new to sampling, any help would be appreciated. What is the easiest way to get a sample on beat into a sequence? Thanks in advance.

I often sample quite big parts on the 4K, like 10, 15 seconds for every take. When I feel I have enough in memory I save everything onto the hard drive on the mpc, transfer it to a PC with aksys and do all trimming / editing in Soundforge. Although others like to chop and trim their samples on the MPC itself, it's just a matter of taste. When I'm done I transfer everything back to the MPC hard drive.

When I've done that I often place related samples on pads next to each other. For instance if I chop a melody loop into 12 parts it feels quite natural to have each one of these 12 samples assigned onto a pad in a specific bank.

But I'm not really sure I understood your question, try being a bit more specific.

vandominic wrote:I am new to sampling, any help would be appreciated. What is the easiest way to get a sample on beat into a sequence? Thanks in advance.

What exactly do you mean.

I have sampled drum kits and I tap the sequences in via the pads and they are
always on beat (at least if I was on beat when programming them!)


Or are you talking about loops?

Sliced or non-Sliced?

If you are talking about loops (non sliced) then you will want the MPC's sequencer
playing at the same speed as the Sample. So if the sample loop is 128BPM's , and the
sequencer is at 120BPM's then youi'l etiher have to speed up the sequencer to 128BPM's
or timestretch the sample down to 120BPM's.

renegadebliss

The sample is non-sliced. How do I find out what the sample BPM is?