What computer sampling software you running next to the 4K ?

Whats up people's this is my first post. I have a motif6 classic and a aw16 mixer/recorder. I have had the motif for two years now. I make hip hop tracks. My beats are mostly non sampled stuff. latley I've been digging for samples and adding it to my production style. I have been able to come up with some banging beats just with the motif but at this point the more i get into sampling i notice how important having pads are. right now I need something to store my samples and allow me to use them how and when i want with the least amount of steps. I've been debating between going mpc or computer. It seems to get the full use of the 4k you should run it with the computer. If your going to do that then why buy the 4k? For me Again I'm looking for a full blown sampler and pads for drums.
Its also seems that the Mv8000 is also and option. Then you have the 2000xl or the mpd pads. I thinking of just getting the mpds and adding a computer to my set-up. The probelm with that is I'm a hardware guy thats how i started and i dont want to slow down right and start a whole new learning curve with computers and music. I know some of you have been in my spot before so if you could help with some pro advice that would be great. Ps sorry for the long post

nice 1 lecter, love that hardware sht.....
Im the same except I wanna sample my studios triton so I can use the sounds @ home, I think I might have to resort 2 da pc for choppin up 74 mins worth of audio.....

n00b: Check the previous posts on comparing the 4k with other sht. The reason you buy an mpc is cos you love that hardware feelin. if you like to twiddle with your mouse all day then pc it up!
U wanna turn that sht on and bang out tracks, you dont want to wait 5 mins to boot up, some .dll crashes so u gotta re-install that sht and even then you get some wack sounding sht coming out of nowhere.....everytime i've tried to use a pc for banging out beats I almost throw the fker out the window. its like your pointing in the dark. and im no pc n00b either, learnt to read playing space quest 1 mufukers!!!!
DEATH TO THE MOUSE JOCKEY>>>>>>>>>>>>
pez

djredhead wrote:Recycle is a cool and easy way to graphically chop up samples and add some of it's built in filter fx to your samples... but, the akai prgm export exports as 16 bit samples and the sound quality 'to my ears' suffers from the Propellerhead 'loss-less' compression scheme. You can use aksys to transfer the wave files to the mpc and convert all of the files to 24bit, but it is not the same.

If you record with 24 bit sample rate on the MPC and transfer to a PC i thought its still 24 bit when its on the MPC. Maybe 'akai prgm export' is something i dont know about. Is transferring sample files via aksys not good? Does it alter the sound quality of the sample? Does it depend on the program your running on the pc?

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i use soundforge to clean up and change samples and thru aksys export them back to mpc and sequence en record them in protools.

works good and fast .

'akai prgm export' is something i dont know about...

Dude. I meant to say, 'The program recyle will chop up your loop and save it as a rex file. If you want <say yes> export that rex file with recycle. Recyle allows you to export your very own looped sample into an akai pgm with all those pesky wave files. The problem is that recycle exports your chopped up loop of a rex file into a bunch of 16 bit wave files. Simple.

Abandon the what if, just do it.