Hi everyone. Ive recently started using my s950 with my mpc1000 (using JJOS .3.08). It took me ages to work this all out, so I hope this makes it easier for some of you out there. Here’s how it’s done:
The MPC Settings
Firstly, connect from ‘midi-out A’ of the mpc to the ‘midi-in’ of the s950.
In the main screen, change ‘type’ in the bottom left corner from drum to midi. Also, set the midi to 1A.
In the mpc, make a new programme, (I called this ‘keygroups’). Still on the main screen, press the window key while your ‘keygroups’ programme is highlighted, and go into the note tab. For some reason, the defaults were not in chromatic order, so you need to go through and set them so. Set all these notes in sequence from midi note 35 C0 assigned to pad A1; midi note 36 B1 to pad A2 etc. You may as well set this up for 64 notes across all 4 pad banks from 35 CO to 98 D6 on pad D16.
Once you’ve done this, save the programme, and you never need to do it again – just load it up each time you want to use the mpc with the s950.
The s950 settings
Someone kindly posted up the original VHS ripped user manual for the s900 on youtube. The section that deals with this part is part 4. It might make the following instructions easier to follow. Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pVWT6u6 ... plpp_videoAgain, this is a bit time consuming, but once you’ve made a programme in the s950, you can save the programme and load it up every time you use the machine.
Record your sample(s), trim them down etc.
Then go to the ‘edit programme’ function, and scroll down to page 5. This is the page that allows you to assign keygroups.
Scroll over to the ‘soft sample’ area, and dial in your sample. In the bottom left leave it at ‘KG1’. scroll over to ‘*low key’ and leave it at B0 35. Then scroll over to ‘*Hi key’ and set this to B0 35.
You now have your first sample assigned to B0 35, which (if you set up the mpc as directed above), should be pad A1 on your mpc.
Note: if you sample a bass note for example, you may want to map this tone across a whole octave. In this case, you would set the low key as (for example) B0 35 and the high key as 46 A#1.
However, if you’re sampling a drum kit of a kick, hat and snare you would set each sample to a keygroup range of just 1. So you’d assign the kick to ‘low key’ B0 35 and ‘Hi key’ B0 35. Then the hat to ‘low key’ C1 36 and ‘Hi key’ C1 36. Finally the snare to ‘low key’ C#1 37 and ‘Hi key’ C#1 37. Then you’ll have kick, hat and snare assigned to your MPC pads A1, A2 and A3 respectively.
It’s worth setting up a template for each keygroup from 1 to 64 in this manner to correspond with the MPC settings. Then save this programme to disc, and you can load it up every time.
You should now be able to sequence everything from the s950, through the mpc. If you want to use samples in the mpc, just use a track assigned to drum rather than midi, and you can have the best of both!
I hope this helps!
