Any way to quick preview and load groups of samples?

Hi guys, first post

I purchased my first MPC just over a week ago.

I've been using a PC and have used plenty of apps/hardware over the past ten years and have kept up with the latest (rise of Maschine etc).

I had the chance to grab a maxed out MPC and took it... this thing rules, sure I could do things a lot quicker via PC but there is something about the MPC and its flow that is promoting creativity...

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Anyway, I've been reading the manual because 1: Thats what you should do and 2: I've been lurking here and noticed that RTFM or some variant of the answer seems to be the default here.


Ok, one thing I can't seem to find in the manual (among others) is a quick preview function. I basically want to be able to preview sounds before applying.

I know these can be previewed after they are loaded but loading 100's of samples can be tedious.

If this can't be done (from what I know, I'm guessing it can't) is there any way that I can load a whole folder instead of going through and selecting every .snd file?


Reason being, I am yet to sort out a zip drive setup for my PC so I have sampled a crack load of drum kits to keep me working in the mean time.... took forever... but was worth it.


Thanks for your help guys.


I have plenty more questions as I've seen people do a lot more than the manual lets on ... but I'll give it some time.

Chur

You could hack it.

Remember that the only way to load MULTIPLE samples at a time is via a PGM or APS file.

We will deal with PGMS, since you can load them one by one into memory.

The hack would basically involved creating a program with, say, kicks on every pad. This way, you can load up 64 kicks at once.

Now you create a new program, the one you will actually use, and assign one of those kicks from there.
At this point, you can just scroll through the entire list of samples as the beat plays, and try different kicks, loaded from your other program.
When you save your new program, it will save that particular kick with it.

The key though, to answer your question, the only way to load 'groups' of samples is to load an entire pgm.
-j

Awsome. That has solved two issues for me and will speed up my workflow around 10x which is really important at present considering where I'm coming from.


Thanks