MPC1000 JJOS / EMU E4XT Ultra Workflow

Hi there,

my main toys at the moment are an MPC1000 with JJOS and an EMU E4XT Ultra Sampler.
I want to have some kind of hybrid workflow between these two machines and i‘d like to know if somebody has a similar way of working like this.

Here is the current way of doing things:
the MPC1000 is the midi sequencer for the EMU sampler and all my audio stuff is coming out of the EMU. The MPC1000 does not play any sound, just midi files.

My life is actually busy and full of things, so i don‘t have a ton of time every week for making music. As you all know, working on old machines is sometimes not that fast and you need more time than in a daw etc.

My wish setup would be:
Taking the MPC1000 with me on the couch and chopping some breaks, cutting samples and stuff do some drum programming and composing stuff and saving the audio samples on a CF card and the Midi sequencing stuff on the MPC1000.
When i got more time i‘d like to take the audio samples from the CF card into the EMU (with zuluscsi?) and using the already programmed midi sequences to trigger the EMU.

I hope this doesn‘t sound to complicated.
Of course i would have to map the samples in the emu to the corresponding keys but this can be done pretty fast.

My goal is to play around with stuff and safe some ideas on the MPC1000 and finish the stuff on the MPC/EMU-Setup.

I don‘t have a zuluscsi drive at the moment and therefore i‘d be interested if this works or if somebody may have a different kind of solution for my „problem“.
Do you think the EMU can read the MPC1000 WAV files and the MPC formatted CF card via ZuluSCSI?

Thanks in advance!

Depends on two things. 1. The format the MPC1000 uses, and 2. whether your EMU is running the 4.7 beta OS or not. 4.7 is the ONLY OS that supports the FAT filesystem. If the MPC1000 formats its drives as FAT32, it MIGHT work, but if it doesn't, and/or your E4 isn't running 4.7, you won't be able to read jack. More than likely if you stick the MPC's card in the EMU, the EMU is not going to read it and will make you format it the first time it sees it.

I gave up a long time ago doing that, as there always seemed to be something 'off' when I used WAV files this way (I have 3 SCSI2SD drives). Its quicker to just fire up the Sample Editor and sample them into the EMU.