Noob question about real time recording

I'm new to MPC's. I just picked up an MPC1000 about 2 weeks back and absolutely love it. The learning curve seems to be pretty moderate. I updated to the latest OS (well, 2.1), but have yet to upgrade the ram to allow me to slice samples. I picked up a USB cord and a 1gb flash drive for it. Enough talk, my question is, how can I record, in real time, what I am doing on my MPC, to a cd or onto my laptop? I have looked through the manual, but have not found anything, other than about midi recorders. I have tried using the stereo out and the headphone jack into my laptops microphone jack and just used the microsoft sound recorder, but the quality is SHIT. I have not used the song functions yet, I have just been making songs the hard way, using a single sequence while just muting certain tracks and using the solo function at other durations of the "song." How can I plug my MPC into my laptop to record what I am doing in real time, without sacrificing the quality? I hope this makes at least a little bit of sense. Thanks in advance for all of your help.

-Brett

i think i understand your question but first i want to say that you can not record real time straight to a cd. if you want to record "real time" i would suggest you get something of a sequencer. other than that, you would just have to finish your beat on the mpc and then resample it on the mpc and transfer your finished wav file over to your laptop and then burn to cd

When u upgrade your memory to 128mb then u can start resampling then u wont need to record into your laptop. It would resample the beat and turn it into an .wav file that u could just transfer over to your laptop via the USB. I recommend u invest in a better soundcard. Take the Tascam US-122 for example u would then just take the STEREO OUTS on your MPC to the IN on the Tascam and start recording. The Tascam comes with recording software or u can download FREE recording software online(audacity, adobe audition 1.5,ect..).

Nicole