Midi Beat Clock question

I just got my mpc1000 about a week ago. I have gotten it to sync up to pro tools LE nicely, but I heard something today and I want to make sure my ears aren't playing tricks on me.

I laid down a high hat track in the mpc before it was sync'd, and once I locked it to pro tools, I thought I noticed it missing a bit of the feel I originally had. Is there a possibility that when the mpc is sync'd with a midi beat clock, that it will **** with my original pad produced track? It felt like the pro tools session might be sending some quantization info to the mpc? If I'm right, is there a way to disable this?

i ahve pro tools but have trued to snyc it w/ my mpc1k. jus out of curiuosity. how hard is it sync it up? I'm pretty sure i could do it all i have to do is read the manual. So whe you sync it up via midi. that jus allows your mpc to be nsync w/ whatever your recording into pro tools right?

The mpc can sync to pro tools, but pro tools cannot sync to the mpc. It is able to with the 2000's, but not the 1k. I'd suggest recording it into Pro Tools without sync and either use Identify beat or just match up the Tempo and go into grid mode. It usually works just fine doing this method and will give you less of a headache and more time to make the rest of the track.

I did some testing to see if it was my ears playing tricks, and I think it was. I'm thinking something else made me raise an eyebrow. I pnly go into pro tools mono, so maybe the hat I used was panned a bit or something. it was so close to the original....just something slightly different.

Anyway, synching to pro tools is easy. You plug the MIDI out from pro tools into a MIDI in on the mpc, then in pro tools, go to the MIDI menu, and then MIDI Beat Clock. select the midi out port you're using, and you should watch the clock on the mpc slave to the pro tools clock

It's MIDI Clock. It's sends Start/Stop, Song, and Tempo information. NO DATA!. So if you want to keep the same feel, save your .seq as a .mid file and import it into Pro Tools. MIDI Clock