Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By pawn Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:44 am
How do i get my beats via floppy disk to my computer so i can burn them onto a cd, keep in mind i cant do anything wit upgrading the computer wit a soundcard or anything because its our shitty family computer that will prolly crash if anythin gets installed.

By nanoloop Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:53 am
i dont think pc's can read mpc floppy's. they can read zips though
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By DA RIPPER Thu Sep 09, 2004 5:29 am
i think he wants to take his beats from da mpc and record da audio to a cd

well u cant do it like that u have to record da audio to yure cpu through the soundcard i dont see why it would crash if u installed it right but if u are worried about opening da cpu up soundblaster has a cheap usb soundcard($40) at best buy and its 24bit all u have to install is da drivers (and the recording program that comes wit it i think) and when u are not using it u can unplug it and put it up
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By featherboy Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:45 pm
Yes, lots of other companies do really basic USB soundcards: Edirol, M-Audio, Griffin, Belkin (I think)..... some are pretty much just stereo inputs on a little block one end & a USB plug on the other. You can then record straight from your MPC on the computer.

If you just want to get your samples & sequences into the computer on a floppy I guess just see if the PC will read an MPC floppy. I've just stuck an MPC floppy in a real old-school Mac Performa (12 years old now) & that read .wav, .snd, .pgm & midi files........it can't do anything with them apart from store them but it is worth knowing!!!

If that doesn't work see if you can save to a PC formatted floppy in your MPC.

By pawn Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:40 pm
If i were to buy a soundcard what program would i need to burn to cd... jus typical cd burning software. while i think about it wpould there be any cheap very basic software where i could just record acapellas over my beats?
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By featherboy Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:45 pm
The cheapest audio cd burning software is free...... iTunes....(you'll need the Windows version) or whatever the microsoft equivalent is.

By genom Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:56 am
Any tips on good Cables to get? Just plan on using them from my mpc out in to my cpu.
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By stryke Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:55 pm
Any 1/4 audio cables will be fine.You can find them pretty cheap on the bay or through Guitar Center or Musicians' Friend.

Peace.
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By ESL! Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:13 pm
are you able to hook a scsi cable from a pc to the mpc 2000 and load files that way?
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By stryke Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:23 pm
No,because there aren't any drives avaible to load onto the pc for the mpc.

Peace.