Normalizing samples

For the 1k they had normalize function. Is there anything comprable to this in the 2kxl? I have searched around and havent found anything yet. Normalizing samples helped so much sometimes. thanks in advance

Co sign,2000xl doesn't have normalize samples function.
I miss it too.

are there any tips you would give about ways you reach around this missed feature? (besides sample at a louder rate)

high source low destination and if ur doing things right in teh 1st place why kill your dynamic range by normalizing?

for some of the one shot drum samples i have from misc kits ect ... there are a lot of good times where this function would come in handy. If i trade some kits here and there and lets just say the kick sounds dope but i want to beef it up. Why wouldnt u wanna use it for things like that

high source low destination and if ur doing things right in teh 1st place why kill your dynamic range by normalizing?

I don't think that bringing waveform to nearly max, like -1 dB or 99 percent (without clipping of course) kills dynamics. It's hard limiting that does such destruction in my opinion.

dbpowerAmp can batch normalise from the right click menu, just get that kitsonto the pc and do it.

A cheap way to do it,is run it through a different samplere first.
I use a korg ES-1.
TT into es-1 into mpc.
The es-1 has normalize,isolation fiter-good for enhancing bass in a
sample,pitch,delay,and other various efx to custom samples.I got an older one
they sell for like 100 dollars or so.
Not really an answer to your question but that what I use to get around the normalize issue,it works good.

My setup...

MPC 1000-CF card and USB
MPC 2000xl-ZIP Drive/Syquest EZ135 SCSI Drive
Juno G-CF Card and USB
Computer-ZIP Drive/SCSI Port/and USB ports of course.

I came across this thread trying to confirm that there is no trick for normalizing on the XL.

I see it like this...

If you don't have a drive for your computer that is like the one in your MPC, fix that ASAPishly. Get one. It's not hard to get it working.

That way, if this problem ever occurs, you can pop the disk in your computer and open them in audio editing software to normalize and put them back on the disk making shure you have carefully numbered them or labeled them as they were in the correct order. Pop it in tbe MPC. Load. Continue making music.

If you go into the Trim screen and press "Params" there is a field to adjust the level to 200 for some extra volume for that sample. In the Mixer screen on the Set up page... there's a field to adjust the level of all samples in memory. Of course you'd have to go back the the mixer and lower the volume of the sounds you don't want affected but its a decent in the box work around for not havin a normalize function.

kashief wrote:...
If you don't have a drive for your computer that is like the one in your MPC, fix that ASAPishly. Get one. It's not hard to get it working.

That way, if this problem ever occurs, you can pop the disk in your computer and open them in audio editing software to normalize and put them back on the disk making shure you have carefully numbered them or labeled them as they were in the correct order. Pop it in tbe MPC. Load. Continue making music.

Like kashief said, you can easily normalize your samples on MPC. Just import the samples (save them in WAV first) you want to normalize, edit the samples, then import back to MPC.

If samples from your sound library require you to do that, they are not good samples.

Em.p.cee.j wrote:If you go into the Trim screen and press "Params" there is a field to adjust the level to 200 for some extra volume for that sample. In the Mixer screen on the Set up page... there's a field to adjust the level of all samples in memory. Of course you'd have to go back the the mixer and lower the volume of the sounds you don't want affected but its a decent in the box work around for not havin a normalize function.

this^

and if you have the eb16 you can turn the sound up a bit with the overdrive effect... you should be able to get it pretty damn loud without distorting it to oblivion.

I can see that normalising can be useful, to bring a sample up so it can play at maximum volume.

Not in place of recording a sample with a hot level and good dynamic range, just to maximise the possible volume of the sample at full velocity.

When I turn on full level and hit a pad, it possibly should come out at full audio level.

While headroom when tracking into a DAW may be useful, I don't think that headroom in the final version of a sample is.