Creating, Loading, Saving Programs from .wav files...

How do you all do it if you have a sample disk full of wavs and want to create programs from them? Is there a faster way to load individual wavs onto the MPC rather than one by one, playing and assigning them to a pad bank? Also is there a way to create a program of more than 64 sounds? Can it go up to 256 as stated in the manual, when you load to disk or is that just loading to internal memory only and these cannot be saved as laid out in the MPC? Also, do you have to save sequences created with certain sounds and save/load them all at once in order to hear them as originally created? Any help is appreciated.

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How do you all do it if you have a sample disk full of wavs and want to create programs from them? Is there a faster way to load individual wavs...

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Either create the programs manually on the MPC as you're doing already, or lay them out in MPC Editor, which allows you to drag and drop wavs onto a pad interface on your computer screen, and then export to disk. (www.mpc2000xl.com for details)

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Also is there a way to create a program of more than 64 sounds?

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No. A program is 64 pads, period.

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Can it go up to 256 as stated in the manual...

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I don't remember specific numbers but most likely you're refering to the number of loadable waveforms in memory, which is not the same as the number of waveforms assigned in a program. The MPC can load a number of programs, each with different waveforms assigned.

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Also, do you have to save sequences created with certain sounds and save/load them all at once in order to hear them as originally created?

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Save your songs/sequences as an ALL file, which stores all sequences and songs in one file instead of individual seq or midi files. This will be loaded automatically at startup if present on the boot disk. Save your programs and sounds as an APS file, which works similarly. The last currently active sequence/program combination before saving will be what loads at startup.

-tank.

^ You can also turn the auto load function off. It's good if you're using a zip and/or hard drive and don't want it auto loading.

Thanks for the help, mates!