sampling from Stereo headphone jack to 60

When I sample from a stereo source like a headphone jack onto my 60, does it just let the right channel in automatically or should I pan what I want?

The MPC60 samples in MONO, send the audio you want to sample to the MPC. If you only want to sample one side of a stereo signal, only send that side to the 60's input. OS3.10 allows you to create stereo samples on the 60 by sampling each channel independently and combining them.

Some people claim a "Y" cable trick allows you to sample in stereo, but I don't know about that viewtopic.php?f=4&t=63180

When you mean summed do left and right channels get added then averaged?

For example left has a kick and right channel has a bass the sound sampled with be a kick+bass and not bass by itself?

Lol just edited my post.

Simon explains it better than I did.

SimonInAustralia wrote:WTF are you all talking about?

The MPC60 does not have a stereo input, it is a balanced mono input.

You can not sample into the MPC60 as stereo through the Rec In socket.

If you use a Y-cable and only plug it in half way, you are only recording one channel of the stereo pair coming down the Y-cable. What is the point of using a Y-cable in this situation?

If you use a Y-cable and plug it all the way in, then due to it being a balanced input, the left and right channels will be added together out of phase (or opposite polarity), and will sort of cancel each other out, and you will be left with a weird sounding signal.

Just use a normal mono balanced (if the output of what you are recording from is balanced) or unbalanced cable out of one side of your stereo output, or use a mixer to mix the left and right channels of the stereo signal into mono before sending it to the MPC60.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=63180

Read the whole thread there are other methods (mixer summing) mentioned towards the end. Whatever you sample will be mono, period. How you achieve that is up to you.

Thanks. That helped a lot. Time to rerecord my kits.

Lawd have mercy.

yeah when I first got my machine, i sampled some stuff out of my computer. I probably had the worst signal to noise ratio ever with the preamps maxed out. before I realized I needed to pan my computers output to get atiqueit volume.

not to beat a horse dead, but if I am sampling stereo drum hits from battery 3 all I need to do is pan it 100% to the left or right and sample right?

v00d00ppl wrote:not to beat a horse dead, but if I am sampling stereo drum hits from battery 3 all I need to do is pan it 100% to the left or right and sample right?

Yep!

Thanks for all your help guys. I started rerecording my sounds into the mpc60 the correct way and I am amazed at how good my drums sound now.

I got the kicks and snares to boom or punch the way i want.

m56p87 wrote:

v00d00ppl wrote:not to beat a horse dead, but if I am sampling stereo drum hits from battery 3 all I need to do is pan it 100% to the left or right and sample right?

Yep!

yeah that works... but, if the sound has something unique that goes to the right channel only and it would be missing in the left channel.... and you also want to have that... use a stereo shaper tool of some sort in your daw and mix the right channel into the left channel...

or, add another battery in there.. swap the stereo so right is left, left is right.. also pan that to the left... add the midi notes in triggering the same sounds... (maybe copy paste the midi event or data or notes etc) not sure what daw you have hosting battery... but there are multitudes of ways to blend both sides (channels) into one side. This of course can be done with many things besides battery and possibly more suited than battery... maybe a sample has a panning effect and you dont want it cutting in and out.