sampling on the mpc 2500

Hey im newish to the mpc 2500. started of using maschine...that name could almost be blasphemy around here... also my credibility could be at risk. but i made the move to the mpc 2000xl, sold it and got the 2500. since then bought a 60II, and another 2000xl (because i loved it so much)

my question is why when i sample in the 2500 at high speeds and pitch it down later it sounds like shit. but with the 60 it sounds better. obviously im doing this to save sample time on the 60, and it isnt needed on the 2500. i thought it might be a good way of crunching up drums etc...

quintessential01 wrote:Hey im newish to the mpc 2500. started of using maschine...that name could almost be blasphemy around here... also my credibility could be at risk. but i made the move to the mpc 2000xl, sold it and got the 2500. since then bought a 60II, and another 2000xl (because i loved it so much)

my question is why when i sample in the 2500 at high speeds and pitch it down later it sounds like shit. but with the 60 it sounds better. obviously im doing this to save sample time on the 60, and it isnt needed on the 2500. i thought it might be a good way of crunching up drums etc...

Damn...that's disappointing to hear. cause that is exactly what I do when I'm sampling breaks into my 2000XL. Spin it mad fast and tune it down back to pitch to get the drums sounding a bit crunchy like you said...I just bought a 2500 today on ebay so that kind of sucks to hear .. lol Oh well.

Just find another trick for the 2.5K... and keep using the oldschool speed-it-up/pitch-it-down technique with your old lady. Indeed I was wondering why you don't simply sample your material inside the 60II and re-sample it back into the 2500 (or sequence thru the 2.5K and feed the 60II back inside via input-thru) ? The grime will be retained...

A lot of cats here sample inside the best suiting machine they have. You have a good arsenal: make it work for your purposes.

Just use the 2500 as a 2500... you don't even need to re-invent the wheel, since you can get the original character from the original 12bit monster and use it with all the advantages of a more modern MPC (you also have the 2000XL... I'd be intrigued to spread my tracks among three MPCs)

PEACE

Midi em all up..

To get crunch grittiness try sampling hot borderline clipping..however 2500 will never sound like mpc60...midi them up or resample the 60 into the 2500