Recycle .rx2 files in MPC?

I cant find any mention of this in the manual, but I'm confused because I'm pretty sure I have an expansion (cant remember which off the top of my head), that actually contains some .rx2 files.

So, does the MPC handle .rx2 files or not?

Doesn't really bother me either way, if it does then ok, if it doesn't I can free up some space on my SD card. I have at least a few sample packs that come with them.

Would be good to have a definitive answer

MPC Software yes, Standalone no. There's no option for playing rex files in a Linux environment, only Mac/PC. Can always load up and convert to patched phrase in the MPC Software, but time consuming and TBH patched phrase sounds rubbish these days, lots of pops and clicks and choppy. Was much better on legacy MPCs as it had built in release like Recycle.

I'll just delete them for now as I'm not really using the software for actual music making, just to put together kits etc

Thanks for the reply, maybe someone else will have this same question and come across this post

So then how do we get the sample to change tempo without having to pitch up the drums?

I have been looking at the patch phrase for this. Or I saw that if I slice the sample up into more parts that seems to work (aka Paradox style, like he mentions in his latest interview).

Is it possible to change tempo but not pitch in standalone?

i.davidson wrote:Is it possible to change tempo but not pitch in standalone?

Yes, look up 'Warp' in the user manual, this is realtime timestretch. If anything is unclear after trying it out,let us know where you are having problems.

You learn something everyday. I never knew that the stand-alone couldn’t run Rex files. Always assumed it did because of desktop software.

kaydigi wrote:You learn something everyday. I never knew that the stand-alone couldn’t run Rex files. Always assumed it did because of desktop software.

I dont think the Rex Library or whatever it was called was ever ported to Linux so they had no way to do it.

i.davidson wrote:So then how do we get the sample to change tempo without having to pitch up the drums?

You've got an MPC, which basically can make it's own "rex" files via a Drum Program. Take any sample, open it in the Sample Editor, slice it up to taste, and - this is the important part - add sample tails to each slice. Bam - your own MPC "rex" files (well, minus the MIDI data, but that's the whole point of having it in a Drum Program so you can play your own patterns). You can speed it up and slow it down using your tempo setting. And yeah, there's a limit to how effectively you can change it without it sounding "choppy" (just like it behaves in an actual REX file).