I'm writing an mpc1000 -> mpc4000 program converter

Based on public info available on the web, I now have the mpc1000 and the S5000 program layout. I'm writing a converter from mpc1000 to S5000, assuming that the mpc4k will simply read the generated S5000 program. Here's hoping.

I'm a couple of hours into the project now, and my app can now read a given mpc1000 program into memory and print out it's contents. That's already useful. Below is the output of my app when given the AMBIENT_KIT program from the mpc1000 kit-of-the-week archives. Next step will be to generate an S5000 program file.

The converter is written in plain C, now running under Linux. But it could easily be ported to Windows. For Mac it needs a little more work, but doable as well. I'll make the code available to anyone who wants to do a port.

Nice.
I just opened the mpc forum to find an app to convert pgm into akp. what are the odds..
i thought there was already an app that does this. No?
anyway, cheers and good luck

If there IS such an app already, please let me know. Saves me some work!

I think Awave Studio can. http://www.fmjsoft.com/awfmts.html

It reads and writes (so the documents says) PGM and AKP

Ill test it in a giffy. I have a copy... somewhere

Impressive list of supported formats! I never heard of this app before. So there IS a way to convert from mpc1000 to mpc4000! Cool.

My copy is too old so

i downloaded the demo version 9.2 and it reads pgm but doesnt seem to be able to convert into akp. Might be just the demo. but you can convert into giga with the demo. Then use cdxtract or something to do giga2akp

Thanks for trying, Ikke!

I think I'll simply finish my little app. It's free, simple, and runs under linux as a simple shell command.

de rien!
Dont forget to implement a batch file convert ui

hey Rob, what are the chances of this working both ways? what i mean is that you could go from mpc1000 to S5000/mpc4k and S5000/mpc4k to mpc1000. this may already be fairly easy to do, i dunno...but it'd be good to know cause i got a couple of friends with a mpc1k and would love to give'em some of my soundsets.

thanks
actuel

What I understand is that the mpc1000 can already read mpc4000 programs! But they must be *drum* programs, so if you have keygroup program you'd like to share, do a CONVERT in the 4k on that keygroup to make it a drum program.

you should approach akai about this. they might purchase it from you

Heh, would be nice, but I doubt they're interested. The code I'm writing should, and probably will be part of a next mpc4000 OS release. We can read almost any type of program in the 4k, the mpc1k version just wasn't added yet. And it's a simple format, should take no longer than a couple of hours for them.

I really hope it is in the next update.

Akai better first the bugs in the v1.71 release. I'm going back to v1.70.
My music partner gets his mpc1000 in 2 days. I'll have my app ready then.

I just got my first sounds out of my converter!

I'm playing an mpc1000 drum kit now on the mpc4k. There are still some issues, but I got sound in the very first attempt, which is a good sign.