Share your knowledge on these two classic MPCs
By Deta!L Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:32 pm
okay, so I can't find a cord for the Jaz drive and I can't find a DD disk so I said screw it, use the sounds I already have samples of on my computer...so I do, got the first sound in, and I can play it on the pad A-1..so I go to sample another sound and it says there is not enough sound memory..I'm sure that I just didn't assign it right and the MPC thinks I want to sample something after the first sound, but I'm at a loss here..should be an easy fix...thanks in advance

By Deta!L Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:37 pm
anyone? after I load a sample and assign it to a pad how do I save it so I can load another sample to another pad? and does it still use up the allotted memory if it's assigned and saved to a pad? so that means 26 seconds of memory is divided by the 16 pads? that doesn't sound right...and I know it can't permanently be saved without a disk, cna someone help me out please

By elmacaco Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:45 pm
OK my man, you are obviously not doing something right.

When you sample a sound, and set the soft start and soft end points, you need to then go to the bottom right of the screen and select 'delete before soft start' and press do it, and then scroll to delete after soft end and hit do it. The 60 will keep the trimmed bits in memory until you do this.

You should have 4 banks (you got the upgraded OS right?) just assign the samples to different pads and then hit the bank button and hit another pad.

You should make sure you have the expanded memory, that might be an issue as well.

By jrides Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:03 pm
I think its a newbie mistake probably. When recording a sample you have to set the length of the sample before hand. (eg 1 sec 2 secs etc) If you dont I think it defaults to using the full sample time available.

By Deta!L Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:53 am
so I only have 26 seconds of sampling time per bank? or per pad?

By elmacaco Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:55 am
26 seconds Period, unless you use the sound compression.

By Deta!L Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:05 am
I know I'm a newbie, so please bare with me with these questions...but I went to the linn website where he has the sounds you can download, but how can I get them into the 60?

If I format the disk, my computer won't read it and if I don't, the 60 won't read it? what do I do to get these sounds into the 60?

By elmacaco Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:10 am
MPC editor and floppies formatted in the 60.

Unless you got XP, then I can't help you.

By Deta!L Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:12 am
cool, thanks for your help...I know it's probably frustrating because I'm sure these questions have been asked before, I appreciate your patience

I'll do a search for the MPC editor

I'm also going to do a search for one of those Dr. Samples so I can get some longer sample time...I've got about a minute of sample time total, that I have to get into this thing, :D
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By DJAndreas Mon Jul 26, 2004 8:07 am
[quote="elmacaco"]26 seconds Period, unless you use the sound compression.[/quo

In my opinion, 26 seconds is plenty.

By Deta!L Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:59 pm
yeah, it will be, but before I got the 60 all we did was sample stuff using soundforge and then use fruity loops to arrange them...there are about 6 tracks we have like that for our EP coming out and that was the reason I got the MPC to redo the songs and program drums instead of using the breaks we have now.....so I guess that's not gonna be too successful unless I find out a way to do it properly.

when i start making my own beats on my own, that'll be lovely, but not right now...so I'd like to try and get an sp 303 as well since it can play a lot of sample time

By Deta!L Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:34 pm
okay, so I'm going to get an outboard sampler to take care of my sampling woes...this may be a dumb question, but I can get an SP505 for the same price as I can get a SP303, which one should I get?

SP-505 for 249...used w/ warranty

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or SP-303 for 249....brand new w/ warranty

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By elmacaco Mon Jul 26, 2004 7:01 pm
505 no question.

By Deta!L Mon Jul 26, 2004 7:23 pm
done deal, should get it later in the week or early next week.

also have some DD disks coming and a cable that hopefully works out

plus I downloaded that MPC software, which should let me use those sounds from Linns website