why the need for so much memory???????

I read how its good to have a nice memory upgrade of 16mb or 32mb, but why? if you save everything on zip disks, or floppy disk, what is exactly saved on the mb's? I just got a MPC with 16mb, should that be enough or do i def. need the upgrade to 32mb? thanks for the input.


Peace and Love

mines at 18 megs cause i couldnt get my other stick of ram to work, and i havent come close to filling it yet . . . i havent even thought about it in a while . . . i wouldnt worry about it if i were you. 2 megs is definitely hard to deal with . . . 16 megs is a breeze . . . but ram is cheap so it wouldnt hurt - just not a priority probably.

Storage (zips, floppys) is not the same thing as memory (RAM.)
It doesn't matter what you'll eventually save on. You need RAM in order to load samples at all into your MPC. If you only have 2MB, you won't be able to load in very many samples at once (no matter if you have zips or floppys.)

16MB is pretty decent to start with. You'll eventually find out if you need more or not just by working on tracks. If you're making a track and you run out of memory, you won't be able to load any more samples, and then you'll know you need more RAM.

yah, i've had a few times where i filled the 32meg limit. it's just that you might be working on more than one beat at a time or have some really long samples to play with.. i just recently got an s5000 so my long samples are no longer the problem they once were.. best thing to do is make sure you organize your programs well. with good organization it's hard to exceed the limit by eliminating sounds you are not using in the program.. but it all depends on your production style in the end.. .

1-0ne

i can rock an hour long breaks set with 32mb. its how you use it. im sure it could go even further using external modules and synths.

I always like the analogy for the difference between RAM & your storage space (floppies, zips etc.) as:

RAM is like your playground & the storage is the janitor's huts where everything gets put away at the end of the day.

I've got 18mb in mine & I've never found that a limitation, but I tend to only work on one track at a time, & nowadays I only have short drum samples in the MPC as I do most of my music in Logic.

If you are planning on playing live you want as much RAM as possible so you don't need to be loading new tracks mid set.

bidi wrote:i havent even thought about it in a while . . . .

that's the best reason to do it...you don't have to worry about running out of space...I've got like like 11 beats I'm workin on, on my MP at this very moment...



...it's good for feedback purposes my peoples come over I'm like bam, bam, bam...5 beats back to back to back....or inspiration if I be like "Oh shit!!!" I can go right to the beat, and drop in somemore sh!t...instead of hunting for the disk, then finding all the sounds over...