Support and discussion for all of Akai’s modern standalone MPCs including the MPC X / X SE, MPC Live 1, 2 & 3, MPC One / One+, MPC Key 37/61.
By Oulipo Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:50 am
Just digging around trying to understand the MPC organisation.
Is this right:

When loading a sample into a project (from Vault) that sample is effectively duplicated and this duplicate now sits in the project. Let's say I rename it. Is this new clip the Master? ie it's not pointing to some other internal location in the Browser?
By Oulipo Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:20 am
MPC-Tutor wrote:One you load a sample from disk, you are now working on a copy of the original disk version; this copy exists entirely within your current project and is completely independent of the original disk version.


Thanks a lot!
By HouseWithoutMouse Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:58 am
I'm using Force, but it works the same. As a side-effect of samples getting copied to projects, if I search for samples from the whole internal SSD drive instead of just my Samples folder, the search will find all copies of the same file. Like if I've used a sample called "Deep Kick.wav" in 10 projects, and I search for "deep kick", the search will show me all of those 10 instances, AFAIK. Which can sometimes be useful.
By Oulipo Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:35 pm
HouseWithoutMouse wrote:I'm using Force, but it works the same. As a side-effect of samples getting copied to projects, if I search for samples from the whole internal SSD drive instead of just my Samples folder, the search will find all copies of the same file. Like if I've used a sample called "Deep Kick.wav" in 10 projects, and I search for "deep kick", ...the search will show me all of those 10 instances, AFAIK. Which can sometimes be useful.


Ah cool. Thanks. Having done a lot of Video editing it seems a bit odd to me that the samples are copied (from a space saving perspective) when added to a project. But good to know this from the outset
By TT_Lab Mon Jun 20, 2022 12:12 am
Oulipo wrote:
HouseWithoutMouse wrote:I'm using Force, but it works the same. As a side-effect of samples getting copied to projects, if I search for samples from the whole internal SSD drive instead of just my Samples folder, the search will find all copies of the same file. Like if I've used a sample called "Deep Kick.wav" in 10 projects, and I search for "deep kick", ...the search will show me all of those 10 instances, AFAIK. Which can sometimes be useful.


Ah cool. Thanks. Having done a lot of Video editing it seems a bit odd to me that the samples are copied (from a space saving perspective) when added to a project. But good to know this from the outset

Yes, but at the same time, you have complete projects inside the project folder, that saved me a lot of lost work.
I prefer to have copies and don't loose anything when making backups of my projects.
By Oulipo Mon Jun 20, 2022 12:45 am
TT_Lab wrote:Yes, but at the same time, you have complete projects inside the project folder, that saved me a lot of lost work.
I prefer to have copies and don't loose anything when making backups of my projects.


For sure....there's definitely pros