Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By MrDismal Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:56 am
Hey guys, I'm getting my 2000XL soon and was curious to see if many people run theirs through a soundcard instead of directly running monitors.

So my setup will be MPC > External soundcard > Monitors

I've never used MIDI ports in my life. Could I use these? I'd rather take these ports as the others (RCA/JACKS) have been used up.

Btw, my card is an NI Komplete Audio 6

Cheers!

:popcorn:
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By Matriks Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:47 pm
MrDismal wrote:One other thing, The MPC has a Multi Card Reader built in. Any flash cards known to not work? And I've read that 1GB is the limit. True?
What do you guys use?

Thanks again.


Yo

Maybe you'll find some answers here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=140216&hilit=CArd+Reader

Cheers
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By Star One Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:17 pm
MrDismal wrote:Hey guys, I'm getting my 2000XL soon and was curious to see if many people run theirs through a soundcard instead of directly running monitors.

So my setup will be MPC > External soundcard > Monitors

I've never used MIDI ports in my life. Could I use these? I'd rather take these ports as the others (RCA/JACKS) have been used up.

Btw, my card is an NI Komplete Audio 6

Cheers!

:popcorn:


MIDI only sends note data, not sound. So the MIDI ports would not work for that.

How come you want to go MPC > Soundcard > Monitors? Instead of right to monitors? To monitors or to interface you still still be using the 2 Outputs on the MPC regardless, so I ask because maybe you have a different plan for monitoring and such.

I'll try and help the best I can.
By MrDismal Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:28 am
Cheers guys, yeah guess I was more curious on who ran MPC's through soundcards.
The reason why I thought it could help me is because I use my monitors through my PC hence the external soundcard. I engineer on this PC and don't have any other decent speakers/monitors to use with the MPC.

With producing I use an MPD and software. Now that I'm both hardware/software based I'd need to run it through my soundcard just to eliminate the hassle to changing cables each time I wanted to bang a beat out on the MPC.

Hope this makes sense. But yeah, guess I'll just use the input jacks on the soundcard anyway.
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By Lampdog Wed Jul 16, 2014 4:29 pm
Me..

mpc4k adat out -> rme ufx -> krk monitors.