Maximum pitching is +/- 36 steps? In instrument program...

I wanted to create an instrument program so I sampled a 440hz tone and created an instrument program from it. When I played it, I noticed something weird...if I played the low A on the keyboard, it played fine, and if I played any lower than that it still played that same note. So I couldn't play anything below 55hz. At first I thought that maybe the MPC can't play stuff below 55hz but that seemed arbitrary and weird and since it's a sampler it ought to be happy to play whatever I put in it, right? So then I messed with the auto chromatic function and saw that the maximum I can pitch a sample down is 36 steps. That made me think that it's a limitation of mpc / jjos, that it will pitch a sample a maximum of 36 steps in either direction. In instrument mode, this means I can play a maximum of 3 octaves above or below the sample.

Basically, if I sample a 440hz tone, the lowest the MPC will let me go is 55hz - 3 octaves down. So first, am I right about this 3 octave pitch limit? It had me *really* confused while trying to program & play this patch. Second, is there a way to increase the limit so that I can play a single sample up and down the whole range of the keyboard? Otherwise I guess I just have to sample at a lower octave. Thanks

yep, only +/- 3 octaves on a sample, so you basically need 220hz to cover 1 octave lower, 110 for 2, and 880 for higher.. You need few more samples to cover whole range.

I actually prefer not lowering any sample in key range, but rather only going up. So I would sample an A0.. and when it hits upper limit, I would take another sample A3. I don't advise you this but I just think sound to much degrades going down 3 octaves. Especially bass sucks going from higher notes.

Got it. Yeah I'll keep messing around to try to come up with the best sound...I just want to make sure I'm not crazy! Thanks for the quick help.