Hey everybody! This is a great site and a great forum. I just picked up an MPC 60II, with the original OS and RAM. I'd really like to build my beats from scratch. I own a small home studio and I've got a lot of drum sounds on my multi-track I'd like to sample. The sounds reside on a Radar II in 24 bit 48 hz. I can transfer them into Bias Peak on my Mac. Is there a way to write my edited samples onto a floppy in the .snd format? Or is it better to just play the hits out of the Mac & come into the MPC's analog ins?Another thing I noticed was that the LCD is a bit dim. Where is the best place to pick up a backlight? Also, who has the best price on Ram upgrades for the MPC 60's? Thanks a lot........
Cool, ok...
1. You might want to invest in a cheap pc, to run sound forge and wav-->snd convertor to transfer your files, i've had nothing but **** headaches swapping disks between my mac and my mpc3000/60, if you have a nice sound card i dont see why you cant just sample everything hot, that would work.
2. LCD...i dont know did you adjust the contrast, if its still dim check sonicstate.com they have a link to a company in the uk that provides akai back lights.
3. You probably want to check out rogerlinndesign.com and get the ram upgrade/os upgrade asap!!! If not your mpc will cause more headaches than the sound it puts out is worth, if you got the extra scrill get the scsi upgrade as will, comes in handy big time.
good luck!