Alesis NanoBass and 2KXL

hello...
when i got my MPC2KXL (fairly recently), a friend gave me an Alesis NanoBass sound module as he thought it might come in useful. I know what your thinking... What nice friends i have... anyways i havent got a midi keyboard just yet and it just dawned on me that maybe, just maybe, in the mean time i could run it thru my MPC and use the PADS instead of the keys on a midi keyboard. I will invest in a keyboard eventually as i have a feeling it will be more suitable and useful in more ways than one. I checked out 'Hooking up your System' in the MPC manual (pg 11) and think it might work, but i got a bit confused reading it all... im no trained musician and am riding this wave freestyle, just learning as i go along.
Basically, can anyone give me a yes/no answer (you can ellaborate a little more if you want) and if theres anyone out there who uses or has used an alesis nanobass, let me know your opinion on them?

Thanks y'all

before you assign a midi channel to the nanobass . auto chrom a pgm with no sound selected. this will chromaticly assign your pads so you can play back better basslines. than instead of using the mpcs quirky gm drum map layout/.

bro,
i just read the page in the manual about 'MIDI sample dump' is this what im doing when using a bass synthisysther... just sampling a sound and then using the chromatic function to create my bass guitar (i dont actually have the MIDI leads yet so cant just try it out) am i on the right track? hopefully get the leads in the next couple o days and give it a go...