Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

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Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By jscro626 Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:44 pm
New user with what I assume is an easy question I can’t figure out…

I’ve chopped a bunch of loops and now I was to save them to use in other projects. I’m assuming I want to save the program?

I’ve chopped the loop and then converted it to a new drum kit. That part works fine but when I save the program and open it in a new project, all that’s there is the original unchopped loop.

What am I missing here?

Re: Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By Elijah Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:17 am
Did you use the "SAVE CURRENT PROGRAM" button to save the drum program? And did you select the .xpm file when you loaded it?
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Re: Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By Lampdog Sun Apr 17, 2022 9:36 am
New drum kit might mean new program. Maybe you saved the original program and not the new chopped program.

Kit is not a real terminology here, “program”, “bank”, “project”, etc is the mpc language. So if you use that we can all understand better what your doing inside the mpc.

Re: Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By jscro626 Sun Apr 17, 2022 1:51 pm
Since I’m still in learning mode, I was just naming the drum program the same name as my sample. When I was browsing and opening the drum program I saved, I was actually just reopening the sample. All of the drum programs I made yesterday are there and working.
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Re: Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By BostonGreen Sun Apr 17, 2022 2:09 pm
I'd really recommend The Bible, and I'm not being nasty. I read it cover to cover in a week and it got me up to speed in no time. Well worth buying
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Re: Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By Lampdog Sun Apr 17, 2022 4:18 pm
BostonGreen wrote:I'd really recommend The Bible, and I'm not being nasty. I read it cover to cover in a week and it got me up to speed in no time. Well worth buying

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Re: Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By DokBrown Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:49 pm
Lampdog wrote:
BostonGreen wrote:I'd really recommend The Bible, and I'm not being nasty. I read it cover to cover in a week and it got me up to speed in no time. Well worth buying

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The BIBLE is key for both 1st timers & users coming from a legacy MPC.
This plus a couple of utube channels will get you up to speed.

B careful chopping, the MPC has 4+ options now that have big affects on your sample space.
I find the sweet spot is chopping to slice with “pad parameters” if want to save space
Otherwise, I just create a new program with new samples. This is the “old school” way

Regardless, name your samples carefully before chopping . . . . .
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Re: Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By Lampdog Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:49 pm
DokBrown wrote:Regardless, name your samples carefully before chopping . . . . .

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Re: Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By Monotremata Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:00 pm
Oh man a 'save as' option would be nice. Im always forgetting to do that before I chop and then I end up with a whole crap load of files with a 20 character name with SL1, SL2, SL3, tacked on to the end haha.

Re: Saving Chopped Samples as a Program?

By DokBrown Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:59 pm
Monotremata wrote:Oh man a 'save as' option would be nice. Im always forgetting to do that before I chop and then I end up with a whole crap load of files with a 20 character name with SL1, SL2, SL3, tacked on to the end haha.




Has any1 actually plugged a USB keyboard into the MPC & then re-named a bunch of files ???
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