Ram

Hey, i just bought a mpc 500, and i was wondering if sequences take up space on ram (ive been trying to record a song but theres not enough space on the ram)

PhatLaced wrote:i just bought a mpc 500

Just do a search on RAM card or RAM expansion (or something like that...) and you should find all the information you need. People are always asking questions about RAM in this forum - so just read a few posts and you should find your answer.

Dig a little - it's something you're going to have to get used to doing often if you want to progress with your MPC 500.

These should get you started:

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=60858

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=61509

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=70803

THIS IS A QUOTE FROM THE E-BOOK Beat Making On The MPC 500 by MPC-Tutor
(Basically--here is your answer. I feel bad. )

it probably has the answers to all the questions you're going to ask yourself whilst learning your new 500.
GO BUY IT!!! http://www.mpc-samples.com/product.php/104/beat-making-on-the-mpc500/

"003 Memory & Storage
A common area of confusion for beginners in the sampling world are the concepts of memory and storage. In this chapter we’ll look at these concepts and give you an overview of how your MPC handles this area.

Memory
Memory refers to the computer chip inside your MPC that dynamically stores sample and sequence data while your MPC is turned on. So, when you sample or load a sound into your MPC, it is the memory that keeps it available to you to use it in your song creations. Your MPC actually contains two different types of memory:

Standard RAM – this type of memory makes up the bulk of memory in your MPC and by default, there is actually 11.4MB of RAM available for sampling usage – this can be upgraded to 128MB using additional memory chips. There is also a small portion of RAM that holds sequence data, 1.6MB. The main feature of standard RAM is that when you turn off your MPC, all data stored in the RAM is permanently lost. This type of RAM is the same kind of RAM found in laptops and computers.

Flash Ram – this RAM differs as it is able to remember its content even after turning your MPC off. So any samples saved to your Flash RAM chip will still be available to you when you turn your MPC back on. There is approximately 5MB of Flash RAM in your MPC. When you buy a new MPC500 it will actually be filled with samples already – we’ll look at how to load these up later in this book.

So, two types of RAM. Flash RAM is great for keeping some of your favourite drum kits constantly in memory and the standard RAM’s job is to hold all your other samples that you need to work with at any one time. So, let’s say you are working on a track that uses a program of bass sounds, a drum kit, a piano program and some sound effects, you need to load these sounds into your MPC’s standard RAM so that they can be assigned to pads and recorded into your sequencer. So, if you do not have enough RAM in your MPC, you’ll find that you can only have a limited amount of samples into play with at any one time – if you run out of space you’ll need to delete sounds from memory, or accept that you must upgrade your internal memory fast! So remember, when you turn off your MPC, standard RAM gets wiped - you can save your songs and samples to Flash RAM, but this isn’t very practical as you’ll soon have gigabytes of sample data"

Thanks heaps for the help!