60 & 3000 file compatibility

couldn't find this making a search...

can the 3000 read 60 files ? (pgm / snd, seq), and vice versa.

planning to later sell my 950 and 60 for a 3000

thanks

kersey wrote:couldn't find this making a search...
can the 3000 read 60 files ? (pgm / snd, seq), and vice versa.
planning to later sell my 950 and 60 for a 3000
thanks

The MPC3000 can read MPC60 files, PGM, SEQ & SND etc.

The MPC60 can read MPC3000 files provided:

a) said MPC3000 files don't exceed the MPC60's memory limits.
b) said MPC3000 files are version "read/write" compatible with the MPC60's operating system.

To ensure compatible transfers between the MP60<>MPC3000 you should make certain the each of these units is running it's latest OS.

... and observe the extreme memory diffences between each.

Rohan.

thanks! this is all good

someone else may need to confirm this but if you take a 26.2 second sample on a 60 and load it into the 3K then I think it bumps the filse size up to 2meg+. So you'll be buggered if you want to load that sample back into 60 due to lack of memory. This has happened to me-

so the 3k "expands" the sample ? interesting

I was wondering what happened to the 60 lower sampling rate on the 3000
does it convert from 40000 it to 44100 ? 12 to 16 bit ?

the average man wrote:someone else may need to confirm this but if you take a 26.2 second sample on a 60 and load it into the 3K then I think it bumps the filse size up to 2meg+. So you'll be buggered if you want to load that sample back into 60 due to lack of memory. This has happened to me-

Yep ... this is some thing to be aware of.

Fits in line with the point a I made above which I'll place here below again:

a) said MPC3000 files don't exceed the MPC60's memory limits.

Loading a 12bit word MPC60 sample into an MPC3000 causes it to be unpacked back into a 16 bit word space and; to become an MPC3000 sample.

So at the single sample level:

The 12 bit MPC60 sample word:

12 bit [XXXXXXXXXXXX]

Gets stretched out to:

An MPC3000 16 bit sample word:

16 bit [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]

The accumulation of unpacking each consecutive 12bit word into a 16bit bit will make the file bigger.

An MPC3000 tells you this on the screen when you're loading a *SND file that this may be the case.

At that point going back the other way into an MPC60 will cause the problem you have experienced.

The sample rate of MPC60 files loaded into the MPC3000 is not changed.

Instead the tuning of a loaded sample is set lower to match the difference in sample rate.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

Rohan.

thanks again for sharing knowledge
peace