A Few Questions for some of the advanced users out there

Alrite I'm really stuck right now when it comes to my sampling. First of all does anyone know if its possible to lets say sample a piano chord and just hold down a pad and continue to play the chord with out there being a pause. If so,can you please share the knowledge. Okay, next questioni have the 2000xl with just the memory upgrade and the filters suck to or maybe its just i dont know what im doing. My favorite producer is Jay Dee and i listen to his stuff and he often will open up the record with no filters and one will be his bass line and the other will be his mids and highs. How is he triggering these samples and what kind of machine can filter the sounds like that. Im considering buying a solid sampler but im unaware of what would be best right now. I mean the s950 is great just outdated or am i wrong? I need some help any comments would greatly be welcomed. Peace

I think you just haven't got the hang of it yet. The chord loop thing is in the manual and for the bass sounds you can just sample one bass note and 16 level it to all 16 pads with a different tuning on each pad. Another thing to do with old records that have the instruments panned are to sample in mono, either the left or right input. Say a 1 bar sample has the bass in the middle, guitar on the left and organ on the right, you can sample the left side and cut the highs off with the filter and that will leave a decent bass but the guitar will be gone. Add this to an unprocessed right channel sample with the organ to get an organ solo with deep bass. On some old records they were more crazy with the panning, like putting the drums and vocals on the right speaker while guitar and bass are on the left, you just need to find the right records. After reading the manual, nothing is better than spending countless hours pressing all the buttons and different functions to find out what they do, I found out some new some new crazy stuff yesterday by rereading the manual that I didn't know the mpc could do and I've had it for more than a year!

BTW, the thing I found out is that you can press the 'open window' button in the filter, attack and decay, AND the fine tuning sections on the parameters screen. An example is that you can change the pitch of a sample by how hard you press the pad, or change the filter by the pressure on the pad.

DuB.eST,


What Jay Dee beat(s) did you have in mind when you wrote that? I want to hear what you are talking about.

Thanks!

yes you can sustain a note continuously
once you have your sample (Assuming its a CHORD sound)
make a loop towards the end of the sound in trim screen and adjust it to your taste
The note will actually be looping but will appear as if its a NOTE that is "Holding" sustaining.. depending on how far or close you set the loop points

No offence, but you could have got all of that from the tutorials on this page. I wouldn't get a s950 before you've nailed the 2000xl.
I agree on the filters though, they are not that great compared to some rack samplers.

About filters, and all that other gear, it's not needed. Jay-dee doesn't use anything but an MPC3000 and a turntable. Here in Detroit, there's many people that know and hang with jay-dee, and the secrets lie in the samples. I have a cd he made and all that was used to create it was a 3000, and a DAT machine! Him and Madlib teamed up (jaylib) and make tracks in the house with minimal gear, and no studio.. no computers. So just work with what you have, and learn to create sounds with the tricks you find out from playing with the MPC. That's the best way your gonna get better, and you'l find that you won't need a gear full of room to create good music.

. ..dyrt.trax. ..

DrumTek wrote:I think you just haven't got the hang of it yet. The chord loop thing is in the manual and for the bass sounds you can just sample one bass note and 16 level it to all 16 pads with a different tuning on each pad. Another thing to do with old records that have the instruments panned are to sample in mono, either the left or right input. Say a 1 bar sample has the bass in the middle, guitar on the left and organ on the right, you can sample the left side and cut the highs off with the filter and that will leave a decent bass but the guitar will be gone. Add this to an unprocessed right channel sample with the organ to get an organ solo with deep bass. On some old records they were more crazy with the panning, like putting the drums and vocals on the right speaker while guitar and bass are on the left, you just need to find the right records. After reading the manual, nothing is better than spending countless hours pressing all the buttons and different functions to find out what they do, I found out some new some new crazy stuff yesterday by rereading the manual that I didn't know the mpc could do and I've had it for more than a year!

Some great advice. Thanks...