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By Jamjam Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:51 pm
Hello there,

My first post here.........

Is there a way to speed up the data wheel when spinning through a large sample bank?

Bought mine last week...damn funky easy machine, pissing all over my previous work.

By Jamjam Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:01 pm
That's not a bleedin answer pal :wink:

By chiZleo Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:06 pm
yeah when in trim mode select start point or end point. hit shift + left cursor to change amounts in tenths, hundredths, thousandths, etc.

works wonders...

By Jamjam Wed Jul 21, 2004 10:04 pm
Thanks.

Though can you make the data wheel faster when spinning through samples when building a program?
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By stereoroid Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:11 am
No - but how many samples do you have loaded at once? You could cut back, remove extra Programs and Purge unnecessary samples while building one specific program...

By cut out Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:27 am
one of my 1k set ups has over 1,000 samples on it and i tell you, trying to assign a new sample to a program in the MPC and i enter a sort of zen-like trance...watching these file names fly past..... it's quite spooky how often i stop almost bang on the one i want.

By cut out Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:27 am
one of my 1k set ups has over 1,000 samples on it and i tell you, trying to assign a new sample to a program in the MPC and i enter a sort of zen-like trance...watching these file names fly past..... it's quite spooky how often i stop almost bang on the one i want.

By Jamjam Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:40 pm
stereoroid wrote:No - but how many samples do you have loaded at once? You could cut back, remove extra Programs and Purge unnecessary samples while building one specific program...


Purge?

You avin a laugh pal.
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By stereoroid Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:48 pm
Jamjam wrote:Purge?

You avin a laugh pal.


Explain?

I mean delete - from RAM - any unnecessary Programs, then use the Purge function to remove the now-unnecessary samples. Then load up only the samples you want to use in the Program. Less scrolling through samples you don't need.

This assumes you've saved everything you want to the CF card first. Which is, I hope, blindingly obvious, given that the RAM is lost if the MPC loses power. Rule of Thumb: unless you've saved it, it doesn't exist, it's a ghost that could vanish at any time. 8)

By Jamjam Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:40 pm
RAM?

CF Card? :?

By Jamjam Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:07 pm
yeah...sorry I'm just taking the piss. :wink:

Thats a shame that you can't wizz through loads at once cos purging them is only worth it once you've mixed it down.

Cheers
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By stereoroid Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:13 pm
Not sure where the mixdown comes in to it. When you've saved a Program and its associated Samples to CF, you don't need to keep them in RAM unless you're actively using them. Which you're not doing when you're busy creating another Program with different samples?
Ah well, it will all come out in the wash, as my mum used to say...