sampling

hi to everybody in the mpc world, cause its global baby, but my ? to u guys is that do u need a sampling software with 500??

hello noob (me also)

no, you put wavs* on your CF card with a card reader or using your mpc as the card reader

or use the audio jacks & record

*akai site says 16bit 44.1khz

You can use a program like recycle to chop your samples otherwise you'll have to chop using the mpc 500, which isn't all that bad I guess but IMO I find it much easier to chop on the PC, save the chops to a folder and load the entire folder in the 500.

but wouldn't that a long time far as recording straight to the mpc, the reason i ask u this is that i'm getting an mpc and i just wanted to see which one i wanted far as money wise eithr tha 500 or 1000. so ur saying that u can't record straight to tha mpc 500 from a turntable. if not i'm getting the 1000 then

no reason why you can't do that, it has l/r inputs, you pays your money makes your choices. the 500 is a bit of fun for traveling around with, a stripped down version of the 1000, only has 12 pads etc etc.. if you wannna record longer loops off decks you might wanna add the ram expansion card (both 500 & 1000)

I really find that useful because I wanna make good music just wanted to know if the mpc five is a good choice u know , i see a lot of producers use mpc 4000,2500,1000, u don't see to many beatmakers using tha 500.

kboggie wrote:but wouldn't that a long time far as recording straight to the mpc, the reason i ask u this is that i'm getting an mpc and i just wanted to see which one i wanted far as money wise eithr tha 500 or 1000. so ur saying that u can't record straight to tha mpc 500 from a turntable. if not i'm getting the 1000 then

You can record into the MPC500 but if your TT doesnt have a built in preamp I recommend u connect your TT to a dj mixer, mixer, or preamp. The quality will be alot better and you will have more sound control where as connecting the TT directly to the MPC(with no preamp).


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does the mpc 500 have a chopping format because iv seen one guy on youtube saying that it don't have somekind of sofware 4 choppin samples u haft use recycle, is it harder or something to chop in tha 500

kboggie wrote:does the mpc 500 have a chopping format because iv seen one guy on youtube saying that it don't have somekind of sofware 4 choppin samples u haft use recycle, is it harder or something to chop in tha 500

....it just takes a different approach than the biggger mpc's. The mpc 1000 and 2500 both have a function called"chop shop" that will automatically chop your samples into a set number slices that you decide(2-64 slices). The mpc 500 has no chop shop function which means you'll have to set the start and end points one slice at a time and then extract it from the original sample. Doing this 30-40 times can easily take up to 15 minutes maybe longer for someone new to the mpc 500.

i see so in other words the mpc 500 might slow up flow u making a track,well as the 1k

kboggie wrote:i see so in other words the mpc 500 might slow up flow u making a track,well as the 1k

Both the 1000 and the 2500 chop faster than the 500.

thank bro

Upright wrote:

kboggie wrote:does the mpc 500 have a chopping format because iv seen one guy on youtube saying that it don't have somekind of sofware 4 choppin samples u haft use recycle, is it harder or something to chop in tha 500

....it just takes a different approach than the biggger mpc's. The mpc 1000 and 2500 both have a function called"chop shop" that will automatically chop your samples into a set number slices that you decide(2-64 slices). The mpc 500 has no chop shop function which means you'll have to set the start and end points one slice at a time and then extract it from the original sample. Doing this 30-40 times can easily take up to 15 minutes maybe longer for someone new to the mpc 500.

I may sound like a bit of a tightar$e but I have a 500 and would love to benefit from chop shop type manipulation - is there any free software that can do this? I have audacity and can't work out if you can do it on that or not (I don't think so). I am trying to steer clear from using my pc too much and so splashing out on recycle would be a waste but a free program to do this would be wicked!

ghostlywhitemachines wrote:
I may sound like a bit of a tightar$e but I have a 500 and would love to benefit from chop shop type manipulation - is there any free software that can do this? I have audacity and can't work out if you can do it on that or not (I don't think so). I am trying to steer clear from using my pc too much and so splashing out on recycle would be a waste but a free program to do this would be wicked!

Yeah, Audacity will allow you to chop or split as they call it. You need to use the split function under Edit drop down at the top left hand corner of the screen....there are a couple of ways to split... I think, so just experiment with both ways and see which way works best. Basically you highlight the section you want to split and then select the split function. If you need more help with splitting type in "split" in the Audacity help menu.