Need help tringering Sp1200 from MPc 3000

WOW ... thats sounds a bit nuts ...

i'm still a newbie to the MPC & SP & about 8 months ago i finally saw the light & bined my PC got a MPC then whet mad and got a SP (spent nuff cash) now i'm Pete Rock & Jay Dee .... LOL !!!!!

I doubled the tempo when I was using a PC with a hardware sampler many years ago too.
I think it's a pretty common thing to do.

Congrats with the hardware-purchase!

(tho I usually copy samples and give them different volume settings giving dynamics)

I don't understand this.. what do you get from this that you wouldn't from using multi-mode velocity?

Because, then it's very easy to adjust the volume on those specific events and do later work like that. The next time I turn on the SP I can mix it again, because it's separate pads. And if the loud hi-hat is on the 1 3 5 7 and the lower on 2 4 6 8, it's fast and easy to make changes in the sequence by deleting one pad. Making the pattern less comlicated for intros change-ups and such.

And this way you can erase all the loud hi-hats or the more silent ones. This is especially good with kicks. First you can lay down your "main" loud kick, and then you can lay down your lower shuffled kick. If you mess up that kick, you can just erase all the kicks with that pad.

I don't use the multi features (both level and pitch) much. They "disappear" when you exit the multimode.
I rather copy samples and give them the correct pitch and volume settings.

I like the ability to play the same samples at the correct settings live too, and if you copy and adjust, you always have the actual sounds right in front of you.

I have never used up every pad of the SP, so this is not a problem, even if I copy a bass-tone and spread it over the whole D bank.

That's an interesting way to work. I usually don't use all the banks up either... my best stuff anyway never needs that many samples. You're probably fast at it now, but it does seem slower than multimode. I normally can delete out a 1/8th-ish or slightly faster hihat or kick with ease in case I need to replace it, or I use step-edit for fine-tuning.

I guess being able to mix on the fly would be cool though; trying all the combinations once you have the sequence sort of finished seems appealing to get the absolute best combination easily. Doing that using multimode would be near impossible.

Cool, I'll try it.

What I don't like about the multi pitch is that it spreads out the sample in a standard "white keys on the piano" major way, wich I never use. I almost always use a minor scale on my beats, which is the bada$$ scale to me. So if I enter multi pitch mode I would have to adjust many of the notes anyway, so it don't take alot of extra time to me.

On the MPC the 16 level feature has 16 steps, and therefore every step on the "piano" so you can play anything you like. If I put my "root" tone on pad 4 I know exactly which pads belongs to the minor scale, and therefore it's very easy to lay bass-lines fast.

Since I have been doing this for some years, I tend to want to do the same thing on the SP, so I set up a minor scale with the eight pads on D bank. That works flyy for me. And once you have a systematic way of doing things, you will get it done very fast after a while.

Some good advice. I've setup an SP-centric program on the 3000 before, but I never got into it much. I guess it's what you start on.. I used the SP1200 waaay before using the MPC. I'm still a little faster on it, I think.