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By peeping tom Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:42 am
You gotta be more specific man or people cant help ya.

what kind of audio interface you got ?

Does it have a midi input / are you using some kind of midi device?

Do you have a mixer or ?

Id say you wnat to track out each sound (hihat, snare etc) use stereo outs and do it one track at a time.
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By peeping tom Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:23 am
Ok.

I got one way, and for you it might be a pain but it will work.

Im on the assumption your laptop has no CF slot and no digital input.

If you have your beat sequenced using song mode, go thru and mute the correct tracks so the track you want to record (for this example we will call it kick) is playing by itself.

Now you've gone thru and made sure the kick is playing by itself, go to record screen (shift+pad 5)

Instead of recording from the record input, we are going to record from main outs (its going to record what your hearing in the mpc), so change your record mode to MAIN might be called MAINST or something similar.

Click record, then hit play.

Once your pattern has looped or you are happy with the recording hit stop / save / keep.

Repeat the process with hihat, snare , bass etc.

Now all of your ish is recording into the mpc, you can use the usb cable to transfer the wav files between your Laptop and the mpc.

Re-arranging them and or finding start points may be a pain so i suggest slapping a sharp snare at the beginning of each sequence as a reference point.


Hope that helps.
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By peeping tom Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:58 am
therstybeats wrote:i really appreciate the help.
does having a card reader make it less of a pain?


Dont know, pretty much the same, just means you can plug your CF card into the pc once your done and turn off the mpc to let it rest.

Happy bouncing!
By NightReveller Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:04 pm
Sorry to bump this up!

But it's always a pain in the ass to record whole beats like that; you easily run out of ram and shit.
What I did I just bought a Focusrite interface, you just get cables from mpc out to that interface in, then record in programs like Audacity, and even FL studio.
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By Lampdog Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:39 pm
And yep, that's the normal way to track into a daw.

When someone doesn't have an interface, another option is that save to wav RECORD MAIN OUT feature (If you have enough ram). I've done this on my 4k just to see what was up and yep, it's a pain but it does get the job done in a roundabout way.