keyboard sounds to mpc 1000

I just got the mpc 1000 and the yamaha e403 keyboard, what is the best and easiest way to transfer/record keyboard sounds to the mpc, are we talking usb or what? please help!

midi is the best way.

i HAVE A MPC 1000 ALSO I FOUND IT EASY TO SAMPLE DIRECTLY INTO THE MPC OR SAMPLE YOUR PERFORMANCE INTO THE MPC AND CHOP IT UP THIS WAY YOU DON'T HAVE TO CARRY YOUR KEYBOARD EVERYWHERE YOU GO OR WORRY ABOUT CONNECTING SHITTY I MEAN MIDI EXAMPLE KEYBOARD OUT INTO RECORD IN ON THE MPC EASY HUH! IT TOOK ME THREE MONTHS TO FIGURE THAT EASY $#1+ OUT

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can I do this with a yamaha e403? I only have usb connection in the back. What cables do I need? Thanks for the help

definitely go to the Tweakheadz website to read about samplers and MIDI before you start spending cash...

hooking two machines together is pretty simple. why do people have such problems with it? one machine sends signal OUT, and the other machine takes that signal IN. The type of signal has to match, ie MIDI to MIDI = good, MIDI to audio = bad. Audio and MIDI are totally different types of information; never try to mix them.

usually if you want to sample the audio from your keyboard, all you do is get an instrument (guitar) cable and connect the outputs of the keyboard to the inputs on the MPC. since the yamaha e403 only has a headphone output you will need to connect to the MPC using the headphone jack. this may require some sort of adapter (you can tell just by looking at the output of the keys and the input of the MPC if they are the same type.)

you could also hook a mic up to the MPC and just mic the speaker output of the yamaha, how simple is that?

using MIDI will require you to hook the yamaha up to a PC using the USB. then you need to hook the MPC to the PC using some sort of MIDI adapter. since the yamaha does not have regular MIDI ports you need to interface it to a computer to get it to send MIDI info to the MPC. I would suggest if you want to use MIDI to go to a music store and get help hooking it all up.

thank you all for the info

This exactly what i wanted to know thanks. i have a mpc 1000 and an old yamaha djx keyboard. my keyboard has midi in and out but of course no sound when i hook it. so i im gonna try what the other guy said and use the headphone/aux out which is a 1/4" same size as the mpc inputs. so all i need is one 1/4" cable right?

TeeBlack wrote:my keyboard has midi in and out but of course no sound when i hook it. so i im gonna try what the other guy said and use the headphone/aux out which is a 1/4" same size as the mpc inputs. so all i need is one 1/4" cable right?

MIDI is just information about how you played your keyboard. it takes up less space to store than the actual audio you produce. so to hear the keyboard, you NEED the audio setup. always! MIDI setup is optional here, not the audio setup....

to record from a device which only offers a headphone output jack, you will need to understand that the headphone jack is a single stereo output in that one jack. there are mono and stereo 1/4 inch cables. you will need* a splitter cable to get the full sound of the device. that jack has stereo output, the other end of the cable should be split into two mono 1/4 inch jacks to plug into the MPC....

if you just use a regular mono 1/4 inch cable you will lose the left or right channel coming out of the device.... maybe not a big deal, your call....



*technically both the 1/4 inputs on the MPC accept stereo jacks. in theory you should be able to use a stereo 1/4 inch cable and plug the headphone poutput to the MPC and have both channels received in the sampler. i tried this recently and it did not seem to work, but that might have been my fault (i have not tested it again to confirm that is the case. if you use a plsitter cable tho, you will be sure to record the entire output......