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Okay, so I can finally add and chop samples. I can make samples as well. But I have trouble adding a drum line to it inside of the same bank. In other words, every time i chop and trim a sample to 16, the kicks and everything goes away...

How can I record and save a drum loop and use it with a chopped sample?

How do I save to the memory card as an MP3?

Whats the easiest way to keep your pads the same everytime you turn your mpc on?

whats the best advice for someone whos not the best with time/metronome? any tips?


Thanks! I really do appreciate it.

Could use a mentor as well. Just for tips and advice. Thank You

How can I record and save a drum loop and use it with a chopped sample?
Sequence out a drum loop? I don't really understand....if you have your drum samples on pads, just record a sequence with you playing.

How do I save to the memory card as an MP3?
You can't. MPC's(after the 3k) use .wav

Whats the easiest way to keep your pads the same everytime you turn your mpc on?
Change your autoload settings.

whats the best advice for someone whos not the best with time/metronome? any tips?
Practice playing drums/pads with a metronome or turn quantize on. MPC is an instrument...you gotta be able to play it. This is the equivalent of asking, "How do I play guitar like Jimi Hendrix?" Answer: you practice and learn your instrument inside and out.

Thanks! I really do appreciate it.

Could use a mentor as well. Just for tips and advice. Thank You
Your manual/this board is the best mentor you could ask for. Combine that with time spent practicing/learning and you'll be slammin out tracks.

All of your questions/problems can be answered/solved by reading your manual, these boards, and learning about your instrument. There is no easy way to learn, it takes time.....and I mean a lot of it. Peace homie.

B2them wrote:Okay, so I can finally add and chop samples. I can make samples as well. But I have trouble adding a drum line to it inside of the same bank. In other words, every time i chop and trim a sample to 16, the kicks and everything goes away...

I'm not familiar with the MPC1000, but you gotta use your PAD BANKS and PROGRAMS efficiently. You can chop a sample to 16 pieces and assign those chops to BANK A, load up your drums and assign them to BANK B. You could save both banks in a single program to make life easier for yourself. Select the required PAD BANK when recording your sequences.

The manual really should cover these basic operations.

I had picked the last option. Usually I'm cheap and so what I do is I will take my MPC (either 2000 or 2500) and I will go to Best Buy and open some CD's then play them in the stereo section and connect my MPC to their equipment to sample what I want. When I'm done I just return the CD's back to the shelves and walk out of Best Buy with some free samples.

None of that wasting money or getting distracted by youtube videos. You should try it some times.

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sirparksalot wrote:How do I save to the memory card as an MP3?
You can't. MPC's(after the 3k) use .wav

Have to clear this up a little. First off I believe the OP is trying to ask about saving the completed track as an mp3. NO machine exports mp3s you have todo that in the computer, but i believe some newer machines allow you to bounce WAV tracks (current 1000/2500 users can correct me). But most users tend to record their final track out of the machine into the computer/tape etc..

However if your talking about the Individual samples - the 3k was the final machine thats unable to load WAV samples, after that you could put wavs on disk and load them instead of sampling. But all MPC's save sampled audio in akai's proprietary .SND format. Which will require a conversion tool if you have to want to make it WAV format for a DAW etc..

yes you can save your track and export .wav files from the 1k/2500/500/5000 (havent tried myself on the 5k, but im sure you can)