From MPC straight to CD....

My computer crashed and it will probably be a couple of months before I get another one. My question is kind of crazy but f---k it. Can I burn the material I have on my mpc 1000 to CD without a computer?

You'll need an external cd burner. I'm not tryin to be Captain Obvious just answering the your question

yeah there are external cd burners with 1/8 inch and rca jacks that record str8 to cd when you hook them up. You probably could check those out so you can burn cds without a computer.

how can u record straight to a cd burner without lets say tracking equipment? How would u know the length in terms of mins and secs of your beat and can track mutes for bridges etc. be used while recording? Im just asking no reason for anybody to cop attitudes just curious cuz i would like to do this if possible.

Well if u already have all your sequences laid in the mpc, and then turn that into a song. You should be be able to just run that straight into a cd burner and burn it. i don't know maybe I'm wrong, this is how i would look at it.

ok but heres what im thinkin would u be playing your track while the cd burner is recording? because i dont think this is possible. When u burn a cd there has to be a program running that is going to rip the information to a readable format, since the 1000 has wav. already then the problem would be reading,writing and buring the cd itself i dont think this can be done with just a cd burner hooked up to the mpc1000. Please let me know if im wrong because i would definitely be interested in just hooking a cd burner to my mpc1000 for this purpose if it can be done it would make things easier.

i don't think you can do it with 'just a cd burner'

the usb connection is not right for that (slave not host or something i think.)

some people r saying you could try a special "audio recorder straight to cd" kind of hardware though. that sounds a bit xpensive though?

I do own an external cd burner. And you can press play and on whatever playin ur beats on (turntable,mpc,etc.) into the cd burner and it records it right there. then once ur done the cd burner finalizes it, and wahla.

yeah,

no doubt, probably were using slightly different names for the same thing-- cause when i hear "external cd burner" i just think like a normal CD/RW drive that is external, like for a computer.

while the thing yer talking about obv. has some audio input and a/d conversion tacked on so it can do the 'turntable->cd' trick.

how much did it cost?

Heres how i use to record all my beats onto cd w/ out an computer. heres the cd burner that i own. i don't use it any more but it works great if you want to purchase it. he he he.

http://www.tascam.com/Products/CD-RW4U.html

i would run my korg es-1, boss 532 8 track, or whatever. Rca out from my equipment into the rca in my cd burner. press the stop on the burner when the song is done. whish you can choose how long of a fade that you want. Finalise and there you go.

can you burn more than one track onto a c.d. at a time? like record a beat onto a c.d., then come back the next day and throw another beat onto the c.d. right after that first track?

Yes you can do that. You can keep recording different tracks until the 80mins is up on the cdr, then from there you would finalize the cd, and once its finalize you can listen to it anywhere that plays cdrs. You can also use a cdrw, and record everything that you need to record, then comeback the next and decide you don't like it and erase what was on that cd, and re-record again on to it.