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By chopshop20 Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:56 pm
:wink: I own an MPC 2000 and in order for me to sample sounds from my reason 3.0 sound bank I connect my PC's wave out to the record in on the MPC and record sampled sounds in that way. is there a way to sample sounds from a software program like Reason via MIDI? Thanks
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By DFENS Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:11 pm
MIDI signal is not audio, so you can not record samples through it. you need to read up on what MIDI actually is, it will save you a lot of trouble later on. search or ask google and you should be straight.

By fader-pro Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:16 pm
Actually some samplers (EMU is one) do allow you to send and receive samples over MIDI cables, but the MPC will not do this...
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By DFENS Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:30 pm
..my bad then! :D
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By melton Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:58 pm
it's crazy slow though...
but midi and scsi works well (smidi?), but I dunno if any of the mpcs support that.
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By Smoove03 Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:01 pm
did not know you could send samples thru midi. I always understood midi to be Data not audio.
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By melton Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:04 pm
yea, it sends the audio as data, like midi dump.
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By Lampdog Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:35 pm
melton wrote:yea, it sends the audio as data, like midi dump.


Correct. It's a sample data dump. Not audio that you can hear.

By sleepersriddle Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:06 pm
and so, the answer is:

go from pc audio out --> mpc audio in, and sample that way.
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By stryke Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:32 pm
sleepersriddle wrote:and so, the answer is:

go from pc audio out --> mpc audio in, and sample that way.


But that's not midi.You can go from the out of your pc to the mpc in,i've done it before and it's not too bad.I would rather work with raw audio data anyway.

By chopshop20 Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:54 pm
:? Right i've heard that sampling can actually be done through MIDI data dump. The reason why I asked in the first place was because i heard some where that it can be done only catch is that the device receiving the data has to contain the sounds and then from there the receiving device configures the data(notes,modulation, effects etc) if the receiving device contains them also then in the sense I guess it would be sampling through MIDI. I guess I should've been more specific and asked of that method. I apologize. Thanks for the feedback and info. I really appreciate it.