Recording Sequence

My sequence is about 4 minutes long and it only let's me record 16 seconds
Help?

Did you read the manual?

yea but I still couldn't figure it out, it's a 500 by the way

LasersLuke wrote:yea but I still couldn't figure it out, it's a 500 by the way

Did you read the manual to the MPC500?

LasersLuke wrote:My sequence is about 4 minutes long and it only let's me record 16 seconds
Help?

I'm a noob too.....but i think ur looking at the process wrong
a sequence isnt meant to be 4 minutes long....a song yes....a sequence no

Try making much smaller sequuences,then string them together in song mode
As far as only be able to record 16 seconds....maybe u need 128mb.
but as a wise man once told me....rtfm

chap23 wrote:

LasersLuke wrote:My sequence is about 4 minutes long and it only let's me record 16 seconds
Help?

I'm a noob too.....but i think ur looking at the process wrong
a sequence isnt meant to be 4 minutes long....a song yes....a sequence no

Try making much smaller sequuences,then string them together in song mode
As far as only be able to record 16 seconds....maybe u need 128mb.
but as a wise man once told me....rtfm

No it is a song that I converted into a sequence and now I need to record it so that I can upload it onto my computer
But it only records for 16 seconds?

BGREEN wrote:

LasersLuke wrote:yea but I still couldn't figure it out, it's a 500 by the way

Did you read the manual to the MPC500?

yes, I did

Aye, is anybody gonna watch the SuperBowl

Even without the memory upgrade you get more than 16 seconds sampling time. Thats the old MPC line nice try.

BGREEN wrote:Even without the memory upgrade you get more than 16 seconds sampling time. Thats the old MPC line nice try.

Well then can you not tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'd really appreciate it.

LasersLuke wrote:
Well then can you not tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'd really appreciate it.

Sure no problem...





























After the memory upgrade I have over 22 minutes Mono sample time.

BGREEN wrote:

LasersLuke wrote:
Well then can you not tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'd really appreciate it.

Sure no problem...







After the memory upgrade I have over 22 minutes Mono sample time.

so that's the easiest or only solution?

First check to see how much sample time your unit has, then, if you must, record your samples in mono to get the most time out of them. You can also speed the samples up before recording them to make them shorter in realtime. Or speed them up after recording them and save as a new sample via copy sample. That will make the samples even shorter in length. Dont forget to delete the slowed down/longer sample to save memory. Then while in program mode slow the sped up sample down to the desired speed.

Your original post does not contain enough information for me to seriously help you. Other than the tips of speeding the samples up, and also recording in mono, or upgrading the memory. Not much else i can help with.

Trial and error... If you don't have the memory upgrade, you will either have to use tricky methods like the tips above, or just live with the limits of not having the upgrade. or both.

I payed around 5$ for my memory +shipping. Ebay. I don't have a link, you will have to research it yourself.

LasersLuke wrote:

BGREEN wrote:

LasersLuke wrote:
Well then can you not tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'd really appreciate it.

Sure no problem...







After the memory upgrade I have over 22 minutes Mono sample time.

so that's the easiest or only solution?

that is the EASIEST solution yes.

BGREEN wrote:First check to see how much sample time your unit has, then, if you must, record your samples in mono to get the most time out of them. You can also speed the samples up before recording them to make them shorter in realtime. Or speed them up after recording them and save as a new sample via copy sample. That will make the samples even shorter in length. Dont forget to delete the slowed down/longer sample to save memory. Then while in program mode slow the sped up sample down to the desired speed.

So far, if you have already converted a song to a new sequence, why do you need to record the new sequence to another sample? Wouldn't that be making a copy of the already existing sample? Thus using twice the amount of memory for no apparent reason?

Your original post does not contain enough information for me to seriously help you. Other than the tips of speeding the samples up, and also recording in mono, or upgrading the memory. Not much else i can help with.

Trial and error... If you don't have the memory upgrade, you will either have to use tricky methods like the tips above, or just live with the limits of not having the upgrade. or both.

I payed around 5$ for my memory +shipping. Ebay. I don't have a link, you will have to research it yourself.

Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way
I want to upload my song (which is 4 min long) to my computer
I couldn't find much about it in the manual so I tryed to follow the only two Youtube videos I could find on it
In both videos the guys convert the song to a sequence and then record the sequence to a single sample and then upload the sample
They say nothing in the videos about free recording time and they have no problem recording their whole sequence(converted song) to a sample
When I try it will only record 16 seconds
I couldn't find much in the manual about free recording time either
Maybe I need more RAM but they didn't say anything about it in the videos so I don't know
Right now I've got 32MB RAM