Issue transferring samples

Hi all,

I've recently downloaded a load of samples taken from various old drum machines and tried to transfer all of them to my MPC500.
The transfer seemed to work (through USB rather than compact drive)
When I load up the samples from their folders in the MPC it looks like all of them (up to around 50 in each folder) have been loaded to put into a program, however when I attempt to assign samples, the vast majoirty don't show up as available for me to assign them to pads. It's like they've disappeared imbetween loading and assigning.
-All samples are in WAV format.
-They all play perfectly on my computer.
-They are all from the same torrent so I don't see how just some files could get corrupted.
-I'm not sure if it's by coincidence or not but it discriminates against the all DM5 samples (which are awesome and I want to play with dagnabbit) but with others it takes some and leaves some.
-I'm running 1.31 OS so it's not that.

Any suggestions please?

load all your files into a tool like itunes and make sure they are all 16-bit 44khz.

Ahh.... I see. I transferred the files to itunes as suggested and yes turns out the majority of them are 24bit samples at 44khz. Is there a way to convert from 24bit to 16bit or am I just not going to be able to use these files (I spent several hours sifting through the files to get sounds I liked so obviously I'd rather not give up on them).

-And ye ok I won't mention P2P stuff if you's lot don't like it.

Thanks for the quick replies by the way.

EDIT: PROBLEM RESOLVED

Well I actually sorted that out quicker than I thought I would (hence asking you lot). I pasted the files into freeRIP Basic (really useful bit of free sotfware) and converted to WAV and its auto settings for WAV were 44kHz and 16 bit. I'll update if they don't play on the MPC but hopefully there shouldn't be any issues now.

Many thanks for the help.

you can do the conversion right there in itunes or any other popular audio editor/converter app.

You don't mention the OS you're using (win/mac) so here's how to do it in iTunes:

1. Open iTunes preferences
2. General -tab should be selected
3. Click 'Import Settings' button
4. select 'Wav encoder' in 'import using' section
5. edit 'settings' so that it'll create 44.1khz, 16bit, stereo files (or mono if you so desire).

Here's what it looks like on mac (win should behave similarly):




So when you have that and have clicked OK on all the small windows select the files you want to convert in the iTunes library. Right-click and choose: 'Create Wav Version'. It'll create duplicates which you can locate by right-clicking and choosing 'Show in finder' (don't know about that option on windows).

DONE!

Cheers I might just do the others in itunes then.

Thanks for the information. Now, what the hell is metadata haha?

Ok that IS useful, cheers.

m:t:c wrote:you can do the conversion right there in itunes or any other popular audio editor/converter app.

You don't mention the OS you're using (win/mac) so here's how to do it in iTunes:

1. Open iTunes preferences
2. General -tab should be selected
3. Click 'Import Settings' button
4. select 'Wav encoder' in 'import using' section
5. edit 'settings' so that it'll create 44.1khz, 16bit, stereo files (or mono if you so desire).

Here's what it looks like on mac (win should behave similarly):




So when you have that and have clicked OK on all the small windows select the files you want to convert in the iTunes library. Right-click and choose: 'Create Wav Version'. It'll create duplicates which you can locate by right-clicking and choosing 'Show in finder' (don't know about that option on windows).

DONE!

I was going crazy trying to figure out why some drums worked and some didnt! Solved.

GLO!!
(GOOD LOOKING OUT)