Loading programs without overwriting samples with same name

This is something that I've never really had to deal with using other hardware samplers. When you load a program, if a sample name is used by an existing sample in the pool, it will over-write that sample with the new one.

Not having two samples with the same name in the same program makes sense. I guess I think of a program as a folder. But the MPC Live has a global sample pool.

Other gear will simply load the sample with a number appended to it, so that it's not overwriting an existing sample.

What is the best way to handle this with the MPC? There is no indication of what sample you need to worry about - and if you have 10 programs loaded, who knows? Is is "kick23" ?

yep ive found this is a major show stopper also, on old mpcs it would ask you to rename the files at least, on these it just doesnt work, only way is to open your song and eg ad name of the song or a couple of letters to the end of each sample name to stop it getting confused, would be something that needs fixing for sure

That's because the Programs are Loaded from the Sample Pool. The Sample Pool is just like One Big Sample Folder. I give my Kicks Certain Names instead of "Kick1" "Kick2". That helps me distinguish different kicks.

Yeah, for kits I'm making now, I've been append letters to the samples. But it's a crappy system, as I could easily load an old kit, or a kit someone else made that uses the same name.

Drum samples tend to have similar names. I have 20+ years of sample libraries, and other samplers let me mix and match no problem.

If they had one pool per program, it would be no problem. But I think changes to the core MPC methodology are not high on their list of improvements.

Computers restrict filenames by folder only, not on your whole system!

Some samplers use that method and a program gets its own folder.
MPC has never done that, and probably wont, but should change that - it makes life easier.

So wait, the 2000xl has this in it's internal memory, not just it's disk system - you can load up 10 drum kits that use the same names for some of their samples? That would make life much easier.

Does it have enough memory to load 10 kits?