issues with recycle and the mpc

hey all just a quick question

i have been messing around with recycle in the hope i could chop up some nice samples to use on my mpc 500

i found the sample and chopped it up and exported it as a wave file then loaded it onto my cf card and tryed to load it up on the 500 but i got the msg saying file not found....
now i know the samples are on there as i can see them in the mpc screen so why then are they not found ?

i have them as 44.1 and 16 bit

im stumped as to why they arnt playing

the case of invisible files hey........

check that they aren't exporting as a REX file i read something about that somewhere. That recycle when chopping samples saves as a REX file this would explain why its possibly not working.

Looks like you found my little hideout

how long are the file names? you should keep them under 16 characters, otherwise the mpc will possibly not recognize them as individual files.

dlinkwnt wrote:hey all just a quick question

i have been messing around with recycle in the hope i could chop up some nice samples to use on my mpc 500

i found the sample and chopped it up and exported it as a wave file then loaded it onto my cf card and tryed to load it up on the 500 but i got the msg saying file not found....
now i know the samples are on there as i can see them in the mpc screen so why then are they not found ?

i have them as 44.1 and 16 bit

im stumped as to why they arnt playing

This sucks! I totally empathize because I went through it myself... Basically here's the deal... the MPC and Recycle have some compatibility issues... the only way I have known to deal with this is rename the wav files within a media player (I use itunes) renaming "sample 01" into "01 Sample". I just go down the playlist until they are all changed. Then I drag them all into a folder and put it into the MPC. This solves it every time. It is a convoluted hassle... but it works

1) try convert your wav files from 44100 to 30000something before you tranfert them; 2) the rename trick works, if you want to make it quicker on mac you can change multiple sample`s name at the same time with automator, even adding them a progressive number. that`s soooooooooo cool (expetially when you have a sample bank with hundreds of files that have the same 8 letters at the beginning, in which case the mpc reads just the first one)

and if you're on pc google "bulk rename utility".

Older MPCs had issues with file names longer than 8 characters, as the MPC would shorten anything longer than 8 characters to LONGNAME~1.WAV.

I did not think the 500 had that problem, but it may be a similar issue - are the file names listed 'exactly' as they should be, or are they shortened/renamed? Do you have any special characters in the original file name?

Try renaming the original sample in Recycle to something dead short, like ABC and see what happens after export. ,