MPC5000 reviews, bug reports and fellow user support on the most recent standalone, hardware MPC from Akai
By jocks Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:31 pm
Hi, I need to correct my earlier claims about file formats:
mpc5k reads/loads long file names up to 16 characters, and that includes spaces in names.
but if you loose the file extension like .wav or .50v you'll get all sorts of error messages when you try to load the file.

As far as I remember: mpc1k on the other hand dislikes space in names and ignores the last characters in sample names exeeding 8 characters, when you load them into memory!
older Akai samplers have a name limit to 8 characters, AND no space allowed in names!

I write here to help out other users.
I hope I'm right this time, but feel free to correct me if I'm not :wink:
/jocks
By kazakore Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:49 pm
I had a feeling the 1k was the same as the 2k5.

Has to be 16bit, 44.1kHz.
Samples have to be in 16.3 format (not tried spaces as wasn't sure.)
If you load samples with longer names only one will load and it will truncate the name. File that has transferred/loaded plays OK.