Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By Living Bate Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:12 pm
This is really pissin me off right now....any help would be much appreciated...

I've built a sweet drum loop on my MPC 2KXL and I've got a simple break looped up in my PC sequencer.

I play the drums on my MPC at the same time as the break on my PC and it sounds crisp...so now I want to get that drum loop from the MPC converted to audio...so that I can simply export the whole song into a WAV from my PC sequencer..

The easiest way I thought would be to use the MIDI Clock from PC to MPC and record a bar....so that I've got an audio bar to simply loop up on my PC sequencer....

I tried doing it with Acid..(I've got the break looped on Acid)...and the drum loop just doesnt sync right...it sounds all out......so I tried just using the Midi Clock and recording the drum loop as audio with Cubase.....but when I bring the audio drum loop into Acid...it is at 90.2 bpms....when the BPM on the MPC is 91.00....and it doesnt sound right anywhere near the standard it does when I start MPC and the PC manually...

This is really doing my head in....all I want to do is find a decent way of getting my drum loops off my MPC and into a perfect audio loop...... it is stopping me from doing anything right now....am proppa focked....cant even do a song right now....

Please help me!!!!

Bless,

LB
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By Jacpot Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:34 pm
record the midi signals from the mpc of the drum loop into your pc. then dump the drum sounds you used in the mp onto each corresponding midi signal track. THen put the two sequences together save on disk and load into ya mpc. I did something similar over my homies house
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By Living Bate Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:24 am
record the midi signals from the mpc of the drum loop into your pc


Thanks for the response.....how do I go about doing that?

Bless,

LB
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By TicToc Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:43 am
Latency is likely causing the recorded loop from the MPC to be offtempo.

Re-record the mpc drum loop, again using the MIDI clock, and put an empty 2 bar sequence before it. Then, using either the chopper in Acid, or another sound editing program, cut off the recorded silence, and your loop should be at 91---the accurate tempo.

Or....perhaps adjust the tempo in Acid of one or both loops.

Has to be one of those two, or the loops themselves are simply not matched in tempo....any DJ will tell you that what may sound tempo-synced for one bar will clearly show itself to not be matched after several bars.
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By Living Bate Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:36 pm
i've tried re-looping the drums in Cool Edit...by chopping off the gaps at begining and end...

It just doesnt sound as crisp as when it plays from the MPC..

guess am just gonna have to keep trying and experimenting till I find a good way..... pain in the ass tho..

thanks,

Bless

LB

By nanoloop Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:36 am
mpc > external HD recorder. back and forth.. never stopping...
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By Living Bate Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:05 am
nano...am struggling to understand what you mean by that...could you just elaborate a little please sta..

Bless,

LB

By nanoloop Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:21 am
mpc outs > pc inputs. if you cant midi sync. set the tempo the same on both pc seq and mpc. or just record the drum loop off the mpc and tweak it on the pc to fit. i use the dps, to resample and mixdown from my mpc. if only it saved as waves so then i could re-load them str8 back into the mpc.