MPC3K questions

Just had a couple of questions for MPC3K users

How many of you who own an MPC3K have more than one?

What do you normally use as a storage device? (floppy, zip, CF card, jaz drive, etc)

Do you normally sample into the MPC, use software to transfer samples(if so which one) or both?

How many use it as a controller for sfotware (i.e battery, reasons, live, etc)?

Is all of your programming done on an MPC or only the drums and samples?

I only have one

I use an external cf drive

I sample into the mp, no transferring of samples, just straight sample into the machine

I don't use the mp as a controller for software

All my programming is done on the mp

Hope that helps

I have a 60ii and a 3000. Use floppies on the 60 and an external SCSI cf card reader on the 3000. I would never lose the floppy drive on either. I love working with floppies. And wouldn't want to mess with the functionality of such classic gear. I will be getting the SCSI card for the 60 soon and another external cf card reader.

As for controlling software... I don't. But I do control other actual synths and samplers and love it.

As for sequencing and sampling... I use samplers like mic pres. Each one I own has its own sound. And sequencing is all hardware... The machine I use just depends on the feel I'm after. I generally do all my drums in the 60/3000. Sequence my synths with and longer phrases in the 4000. I use the mv 8000 for its lightning fast chopping and to bpm match samples easily. The 3000 is my favorite sequencer I've ever owned so far.

dccarson wrote:Just had a couple of questions for MPC3K users

You'll probably get more answers by going through some pages of this forum yourself, and/or doing specific searches. There are years of information from hundreds of users, all you have to do is read instead of ask.

I use my mpc3000 with other late 80's/early 90's rack samplers.
I also have an mpc2500 which I may be selling soon. I've been using the 2500 since 2007 but got an mpc3000 a couple of weeks ago.

I very recently built some SCSI -> IDE CF Card readers for my mpc3000, S1000 and S750. Using floppies for my stereo samplers became a bit silly. I'd sometimes end up using 15 disks for one track
I kept my mpc3000 and S1000 floppy drives (initially I fitted internal) in place so I can transfer samples from S1000 to mpc3000 when I want.
Floppies are absolutely fine for my mono samplers though.

I sample into all my samplers. I don't transfer. On these old Akai samplers you can clip the Record Input by varying degree's and get a good sound, unlike the newer Akai mpc's. Also, the variable sample rate combined with the empahsis hump is another great tool in the S950. The S1000 also has some nice top end especially when transposing down, whilst the mpc3000 cuts off the top end compared.
Makes me wonder when people on forums say that 'a sampler is a sampler and what you put in is what you get out'. BS, especially when you also consider the differences in gain structure, filters, envelopes, emphasis curve, interpolation, summing, etc, etc, etc, etc.

My mpc controls everything; all my hardware synths, samplers and drum machines, etc. I currently don't use software for sounds. I enjoy doing everything out of the box with a 24 channel mixing desk.

couldnt agree more jimmie.

People always ask me why I have so many samples............ I feel like samplers are my mic pres. I do not record live instruments in the traditional sense so I use the ad/da of each sampler to color my samples the way most studio rats use the racks of mic pres to match the instrument/ mic combo.