unfamiliar file????

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unfamiliar file????

By Jayembee Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:21 pm
i been tryin to get wavs off the net but half of them wont upload to the mpc an its makin me crazy.... i save them as wav files and im pretty sure theyr root files but i always get errors tryin to get em on the mpc... can anyone help me as to figure out how to make these files legit??? any help would be appreciated
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By Lampdog Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:26 pm
44.1khz/16bit wav files are the wav's that MPC likes.
Make sure you are downloading 44.1khz/16bit wav files.

Other than that you can open the wav's in a wave editor
and resave them as 44/16, then load into your MPC, also
the wave editor can tell you what sampling rate and bit
rate the file is exactly.

Hope that helps.
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By MPC-Tutor Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:06 pm
MPCs will load up samples with samplerates other than 44.1 - it just pitches them up/down to 44.1

I would imagine the issue here is the format of WAV you are using. There are many formats of WAV file, the MPC only recognises PCM wavs. If you right click on a WAV file in a PC and select 'properties', then 'summary' it will tell you the 'audio format'. This must say PCM - if not, you'll need something like Soundforge to convert it. Other formats include ADPCM, MPEG layer 3 and GSM.

PCM is the most widely used.
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By Lampdog Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:10 pm
MPC-Tutor wrote:MPCs will load up samples with samplerates other than 44.1 - it just pitches them up/down to 44.1
I would imagine the issue here is the format of WAV you are using. There are many formats of WAV file, the MPC only recognises PCM wavs. If you right click on a WAV file in a PC and select 'properties', then 'summary' it will tell you the 'audio format'. This must say PCM - if not, you'll need something like Soundforge to convert it. Other formats include ADPCM, MPEG layer 3 and GSM. PCM is the most widely used.


Sorry bout the misinfo. My bad..
and now the sound of me slapping myself *slap* *SLAP*
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answer to your problem?

By Blaz4me Fri Oct 31, 2003 9:28 pm
Most importantly, you need to make sure that your waves are 16 bit. Using whatever software you have capable of converting bit rates load and resave with a 16 bit rate.

By Jayembee Sat Nov 01, 2003 2:42 am
i see.... a lot of them are mpeg layer3.... thats the lookout you guys helped me out thank you so very much
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