By stefski
Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:26 pm
Hey guys.
I sampled some arpeggio'd notes from my mini korg before I left the house. So I'm on a desert island trying to throw those into the mix, just for measure while practicing some other functions along with the manual. The samples are just half a measure long stereo waw-files. There's nothing unordinary to them other than that it's a 32 bit sample - I have considerably less elaborate equipment that can handle the data and convert it to its liking locally!:
731 kb
44100Hz
32-bit float
4.240 secs
Ok so I had a lot of drums sounds going here. But even when I scaled them down to just kick, snare, hi-hat, claves the mini korg sample wouldn't play through!! It starts playing then just stops. I don't see any pattern to this happening. It does start messing things up
The MPC 500 has up to 32 voices of polyphony (depending on processing).
So I tried at the hotel (wall outlet - thinking battery power might affect "processing" (whatever t f that's supposed to mean anyway) and as soon as I use more than four or so drum samples in a programmed rhythm (not even simultaneously - as in polyphony) .
I am not using a lot of effects (other than what's on the master as default)
I have not hidden any mutes from one pad to the other in the program pad setup - haven't even gotten to that part on the 500 yet.
I uploaded one of the weird samples here, feel free to give it a go with your own drum programs. I used it mainly with note on programming, nothing fancy but you will also hear from this example that I really can't dabble with mono samples for this stuff, if that could prove to be an issue besides the obvious lack of proper sample formating.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/94ob5t
You will notice how playing it from the mpc 500 without anything else isn't gonna be a problem. But just try triggin this on top of a drum program. See if it even plays through once. Do I really need to format the samples going into the mpc500 into 16 bit linears? Oh, btw it hasn't been a problem for my other drum sounds that are of similar data format.
I sampled some arpeggio'd notes from my mini korg before I left the house. So I'm on a desert island trying to throw those into the mix, just for measure while practicing some other functions along with the manual. The samples are just half a measure long stereo waw-files. There's nothing unordinary to them other than that it's a 32 bit sample - I have considerably less elaborate equipment that can handle the data and convert it to its liking locally!:
731 kb
44100Hz
32-bit float
4.240 secs
Ok so I had a lot of drums sounds going here. But even when I scaled them down to just kick, snare, hi-hat, claves the mini korg sample wouldn't play through!! It starts playing then just stops. I don't see any pattern to this happening. It does start messing things up
The MPC 500 has up to 32 voices of polyphony (depending on processing).
So I tried at the hotel (wall outlet - thinking battery power might affect "processing" (whatever t f that's supposed to mean anyway) and as soon as I use more than four or so drum samples in a programmed rhythm (not even simultaneously - as in polyphony) .
I am not using a lot of effects (other than what's on the master as default)
I have not hidden any mutes from one pad to the other in the program pad setup - haven't even gotten to that part on the 500 yet.
I uploaded one of the weird samples here, feel free to give it a go with your own drum programs. I used it mainly with note on programming, nothing fancy but you will also hear from this example that I really can't dabble with mono samples for this stuff, if that could prove to be an issue besides the obvious lack of proper sample formating.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/94ob5t
You will notice how playing it from the mpc 500 without anything else isn't gonna be a problem. But just try triggin this on top of a drum program. See if it even plays through once. Do I really need to format the samples going into the mpc500 into 16 bit linears? Oh, btw it hasn't been a problem for my other drum sounds that are of similar data format.
