ANY TIPS ON FASTER LOADING TIME OF SOUNDS????? mpc2k

I'm using the orginal 2k with a 100 mb zip. all works fine, i'm gonna use this puppy live so want to load additional programs mid-set. right now it takes a while to reload, is there any way to speed things up??? i have a 4gb scsi drive but i can't get it to work (the 2k can only use 1gb which i think is the problem), anyone out there usin' a 1gb SCSI hard drive? does it speed up the loading time, or should i just deal with what i've got......? thoughts?????? thanks........

You can load as many different samples, programs, sequences & songs to fill the MPC as your RAM allows. It might be a case of getting the maximum RAM fitted rather than finding something faster than a zip to load from. Then you can have everything loaded up at the start of your live set.


If you have lots of different songs & programs loaded at once it is a good idea to start each song with a program change command so it automatically calls up the correct program for that song.

thanks for the headz up! yeah RAM is maxed out already to 32. program change sounds like good advice. any mo peeps found a way of loading programs quickly that works for them.?

im running a 380 meg hd on my 2k, it loads only a tid bit quicker than my zip. but its really old and dookie so i bet a newer drive would be faster. but it s hard to find a newer drive thats 25 pin bs whoever made it should rot in hell scsi connector, and ive had problems with 25-50/68 pin adapters..

CDROM flys! Plus you can purchase them in different speeds, I don't have a problem with speed. My zip is a bit "antiquated" but that's about it, and it's cool once it "warms up", but the CD is much faster IMO. I have both.