samples

can you load up samples from a turntable to the MPC 500? I am a beginner and am in dear need of help.

This is what I do.

I've got a USB Turntable, so I hook mine up and play it through a free program called Audacity (just google it) and then I'll chop my samples on there. Then I hook my 500 up to my computer via USB, open my 500 on the computer so I can see all the contents of it. Create a new folder on your 500(i.e., Samples) and then I "EXPORT" my chopped samples from Audacity (File<Export as WAV) to my new folder on the 500(As stated above) and that's it. Safely remove your 500 from the comp and locate the samples on your 500 and assign them to pads. Easy as 1,2,3! lol


You may want to upgrade to 128MB RAM and get a bigger CF Card. You can pick a 1GB CF Card at Walmart for around $20. For the RAM, google it.

PeAcE!!!

If you don't have a USB turntable, then I woudn't know what to tell ya, others on here def. will tho.

PeAcE!

The old-school way to sample from turntable into MPC is:

1. Connect turntable to a DJ-mixer or an amplifier.
2. Connect a DJ-mixer's (amplifier's) audio-outs to audio-ins of your MPC.
3. Connect MPC's audio-outs to your loud-speakers (or plug headphones into phones jack of your MPC).

Now you can listen to the sound which goes through MPC and you can sample it.

Alternatively, you can record everything into an audio editing software (in step 3 connect your mixer or amplifier into audio interface audio-ins, then) on your PC/Mac, chop it there as you please (it is indeed easier and simpler) and then load the results up into MPC via USB.

brazeca wrote:The old-school way to sample from turntable into MPC is:

1. Connect turntable to a DJ-mixer or an amplifier.
2. Connect a DJ-mixer's (amplifier's) audio-outs to audio-ins of your MPC.
3. Connect MPC's audio-outs to your loud-speakers (or plug headphones into phones jack of your MPC).

Now you can listen to the sound which goes through MPC and you can sample it.

Alternatively, you can record everything into an audio editing software (in step 3 connect your mixer or amplifier into audio interface audio-ins, then) on your PC/Mac, chop it there as you please (it is indeed easier and simpler) and then load the results up into MPC via USB.

brazeca, by doing it like you explained in steps 1-3, does that use up RAM space or recording time on the 500?

It starts using RAM only when you actually start sampling. When it is hooked up in the sampling stand-by mode no RAM is used, cause the sound just passes through.

OH, so you can basically just hook it up and "practice" what your about to start playing before you actually begin recording? what if you mess up and have to redo it? are you able to regain that recording time you used up by accident?

Seeings how theres no chop feature on the 500 your guna have some problems (unless playing one long sample instead of many short ones). You can edit how long the sample is, where it starts/ends.

Good luck with that homie.

DPM wrote:OH, so you can basically just hook it up and "practice" what your about to start playing before you actually begin recording? what if you mess up and have to redo it? are you able to regain that recording time you used up by accident?

Yes, that's the point.

If you record something, it will be in the RAM, so you'd have three options:

1) Go to Trim mode and select 'Delete', that deletes your new sample(s) from memory
2) If there are a number of samples, you can use 'Purge' function in Program mode (that clears up memory of all samples, which are not used by/assigned to any program). New samples aren't usually assigned to any program so I'd recommend this functionality, when you make few bad sampling attempts and want to get rid of them in one go
3) And you can always just switch off your MPC without saving samples. When you switch it back on, the RAM will be empty.

oh ok man! THANKS A LOT!!