MPC 2000XL + S900: How Do I Map Sounds To The Pads

Ok, after doing a search on the internet and in this forum i haven't seen or got a definitive answer... its pretty wierd because alot of people use this combination you would think someone would have explained it by now.

i read through the Manual on the S900 online... essentially what im trying to figure out is how exactly do i map the sounds of the S9 to the pads of the MP..... i have successfully done this via the Keygroup method... but that causes the sounds to be improperly pitched.. at the pitch of the pad i mapped the sound to.

does anyone have an answer onto how exactly does one go about mapping their drum sounds to the MPC pads.

Thanks guys

before recording, press the pad you want it to be assigned to to designate the root key

ArKyve-31 wrote:before recording, press the pad you want it to be assigned to to designate the root key

i think you might be right ill try that out.

Wal Martian wrote:Keygroups is how you do it. If you want the pitch to be different, change the pitch of the sound in the s900.

i do it this way but.... the pitch of the actual sample changes when i do even if i assign the sample to 1 pad.

sub7ero wrote:

ArKyve-31 wrote:before recording, press the pad you want it to be assigned to to designate the root key

i think you might be right ill try that out.

I think that you can change that for existing keygroups/samples using the Nom Pitch setting in Edit Sample page 03.

sub7ero wrote:

Wal Martian wrote:Keygroups is how you do it. If you want the pitch to be different, change the pitch of the sound in the s900.

i do it this way but.... the pitch of the actual sample changes when i do even if i assign the sample to 1 pad.

The pitch changes because the MPC pad is sending a different note to the S900 than what the nominal pitch for that sample is set to in the S900, so the S900 is transposing the sample from the nominal pitch setting to the pitch of the incoming MIDI note.