How can i transfer date between MPC3000 and MacBook Pro?

Yes, if file management is what you are most interested in, you may want one of the other programs over Translator, which has extensive features for sample format translation. But they do have an Akai only version for $80.00 USD.

I see that MPCPgmMaker is no longer available - it is now called RS-16X but apparently that has the same program features. It is $35.00 USD.

MPCEditor doesn't run on Apple products.

Respectfully I would like to posit this technique for 69ing the MP & the Mac:

Fvck all that complicated sh!t, get your 1/8" to RCA cable, attach some 1/4" adapters and sample that Mac audio through the wonderful analog ins of the MPC3000.

I have a PC for PT recording and I do have the MPC editor software that I use sometimes for mega-complex drum chops, etc... but more often than not I just sample into the MPC straight up- I find it's faster & funner. The 3K has 2 input sources, so I always have a coax in the digital, and some 1/4" in the analogs.

I also have a macbook that I use for mostly office stuff, but I find the quality of the 1/8" ins and outs on it to be pretty damn good. So If I have some wavs in iTunes I see no problem with grabbing 'em old school style with great results.

if you have a mac you can get a 1/8" digital to rca digital in of the 3K and bypass the converters in the mac

i really don't understand why people get samplers and don't want to actually sample? the sound the 3K imparts on samples is a good reason to own one

One thing that's cool about the MPC editor (PC only) is you can 'auto-assign' lots of samps- aka it just throws 'em all on pads for ya- but for real by the time you save the program, remove the disc, put the disc in the MP- you start to feel old- if it's not fast it's not as cool + you get to name the sounds more logically from the jump.

I picked up a second hand USB ZIP yesterday. Extremely cheap! It's great when old technology becomes worthless to the masses, but oh so essential in the studio.

I've downloaded RS-16X. Thanks yet again to JD for the research. Looks like a cool app.

Whats the story with the 1/8 coax to RCA, in laymen's terms? I know it's the digital "in" on the MPC. But why use this when we can just sample into the main Record in of the MPC? And how does it bypass the mac converters if it's coming out of the mac converters?

Hold on i think i get it -If we want sound from the mac or pc, rather than just doing a totally digital transfer, We can use the coax, and sample through the MPC's A/D's... I like sampling vinyl anyhow. But yeah, seems like a good way also.

The sound of the MPC3000 A/D's are amazing! I use an Apogee Duet to record onto the mac. But when it comes to drums especially, i opt for the MPC's A/D's any day.

Dan Clark wrote:I picked up a second hand USB ZIP yesterday. Extremely cheap! It's great when old technology becomes worthless to the masses, but oh so essential in the studio.

I've downloaded RS-16X. Thanks yet again to JD for the research. Looks like a cool app.

Whats the story with the 1/8 coax to RCA, in laymen's terms? I know it's the digital "in" on the MPC. But why use this when we can just sample into the main Record in of the MPC? And how does it bypass the mac converters if it's coming out of the mac converters?

Hold on i think i get it -If we want sound from the mac or pc, rather than just doing a totally digital transfer, We can use the coax, and sample through the MPC's A/D's... I like sampling vinyl anyhow. But yeah, seems like a good way also.

The sound of the MPC3000 A/D's are amazing! I use an Apogee Duet to record onto the mac. But when it comes to drums especially, i opt for the MPC's A/D's any day.

I dont have a 3k ,but the coax thing is usually SPDIF. You connect SPDIF in on MPC to SPDIF out on your Mac(or pc or whatever) and the signal stays digital. No A/D or D/A converters are used at all.You can transfer mono and stereo signals this way.