Post your questions, opinions and reviews of the MPC1000. This forum is for discussion of the OFFICIAL Akai OS (2.1). If you wish to discuss the JJ OS, please use the dedicated JJ OS forum
User avatar
By J WALES Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:38 pm
Has anybody made quality stuff in acid? And if you got some sequences on your MPC 1K can and how do you get them into acid? :roll:

By bigal_davis Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:45 pm
Match the tempo in Acid with the MPC. Hit record from Acid and push play on the MPC. If it get out of time, Acid has a feature called Beat Mapper that clean it all-up.

Peace
User avatar

By effekt Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:08 pm
wow, that's a very dirty way of transfering your tracks. Better use MIDI clock to sync Acid with MPC. All depending of what sound card you're using, you'll get some latency, but I wouldn't recommend that Beat Mapper thing. It shrinks or streches your tracks, giving them horrible sound sometimes.

If you are just a begginer, you can always start like that, but later on, I definitly recomend MIDI syncing.
User avatar

By J WALES Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:48 pm
thanks. could i use the sound card that came with my dell, i think its called sound blaster.

By bigal_davis Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:08 pm
To sync Acid with the MPC is not a begginers thing. Some people still can't get it to work, but he may catch-on quickly if someone can show him. I have Acid 3.0; not 4.0. People were scaring me because they cry about the bugs in 4.0. Maybe Acid 4.0 is a lot better now, but I don't know.
User avatar

By effekt Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:08 pm
Just to give you an example. I used soundblaster live with CoolEdit. I recorder 10min of my beat on one track. Then I stoped the recording and started recording vocals on another track. When I was recording vocals, I was rhymeing to the beat, but when I play them later on, the first few minutes were ok, but after few minute, the vocals were starting to go more and more off beat.

As I said before, for now, use whatever you have. But later, when you feel like you need something more Pro, then you can start investing.
User avatar

By DJWeed Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:45 am
Use your MPC to make loops 2,4,8,16 bars long.
export loops from mpc.
load them up in Acid, paint out a song.
User avatar

By J WALES Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:29 pm
No doubt im a try it! thanx
User avatar

By loo2004ep Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:47 pm
efekt that shit happened to me one time i was exporting beats out of fl studio 4 and the rapper rode the beat perfect during record ( beat was being played directly out of program during recording for continuious loop) but when i layered the vocals and the beat they matched at first then shifted off i think it has sumthin to do with the samplerate the beat was saved as
User avatar

By J WALES Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:42 pm
Last nite i was fooling around with this sample in acid and after i had it all doctored up I did a save as gave it a name and then i exported it to a wav. When i loaded the sample on my mpc it had none of the stuff i edited, it was the same way it was when i brought it in to acid, this went on for bout an hour and a half. I was wondering if i did or didnt do something, btw it was a voice :x
User avatar

By HybridBeats.com Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:05 pm
Are you sure you used "render" and not "save"? I use render, I check the box of "loop region only" and I make sure the loop marker is where I want the sample to start and stop. Not sure if that answers your question but that works for me.
User avatar

By J WALES Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:51 pm
Im a try it tonite and i will let you know tomorrow. thanks
User avatar

By J WALES Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:08 pm
worked like a charm, thanks. another thing, can i hook up a oxy 8 to play simple melodies in acid?
User avatar

By HybridBeats.com Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:40 pm
I've never used the MIDI functions in acid, I actually am still using 3.0 where the MIDI functions were fairly meek. I hear its better in 4.0 but I can't speak from experiance.
User avatar

By J WALES Thu Apr 01, 2004 1:25 pm
Thanx Hybrid