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By LOWKEY25 Sat May 01, 2004 2:43 am
I need some help!
After creating a song,i uploaded it to my hard drive and tryed to play it.. Windows cannot read the sequence.. On the mpc 1000,when i saved it. I read in the window save all programs and sequences.. I saved it.. Then exported it to my hard drive. And nothing on my computer can understand the file to be able to play it..

By spen Sat May 01, 2004 3:12 am
really? it's supposed to play in windows media player...

damn man you must have a bad unit... i heard about that bug... take it back and get a new one..

good luck

By elmacaco Sat May 01, 2004 3:22 am
wait, a sequence is supposed to play in media player? You probably have to resample first.

By bboy Sat May 01, 2004 4:02 am
like elmacaco said, if its just a sequence, which is only a midi file for the mpcs, theres no way it would play... you'd have to convert the song into a single sequence, then resample it (if you have the extra RAM) and then upload it.

By spen Sat May 01, 2004 4:24 am
lol i was just joking

By elmacaco Sat May 01, 2004 4:33 am
Ouch! Homie's probably at Guitar center right now!

By ONE Sat May 01, 2004 5:22 am
You are going to have to find a way to get the SOUND routed to your PC so you can actually record the sound coming out of your MPC into the PC. You then have to save the recording either as a WAV file or MP3.

All the files in the MPC ar proprietary. All the song file does is it has the information that tells the MPC in which order to play sequences.

You are going to have to record the sounds coming out the outputs. The MPC does not work like how you are trying to get it to work.

By elmacaco Sat May 01, 2004 5:27 am
not the wav files...

By ONE Sat May 01, 2004 5:28 am
If you have the EXM128 Ram and you have the space, you can convert the song into a sequence and re-sample the whole sequence. Make sure your master volume is set to at least -6db or else the re-sample is going to sound too low. This will basically put your sequence into WAV format which you then can import into your PC to play with WMP. You are going to need EXM 128 to do this, because you will need enough available recording time to record that whole song.
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By djnodoze Sat May 01, 2004 8:25 am
i cosign what ONE is saying, except he is saying you need the EXM128 ram to have enough available recording time to resample...dont get confused here, just listen : you can get a stick of pc-133, 256 meg of ram (thats notebook memory) and get away with having 128 megs of ram loaded into your mpc1000....check on here for this , but it saves you from spending the exhorbitant amount of money to pay for the EXM128 ram from akai...

By ONE Sat May 01, 2004 8:37 am
djnodoze wrote:i cosign what ONE is saying, except he is saying you need the EXM128 ram to have enough available recording time to resample...dont get confused here, just listen : you can get a stick of pc-133, 256 meg of ram (thats notebook memory) and get away with having 128 megs of ram loaded into your mpc1000....check on here for this , but it saves you from spending the exhorbitant amount of money to pay for the EXM128 ram from akai...


Tru...just as long as you get 128 worth of RAM it doesn't matter whether it's exm128 or Notebook RAM, or what have you. It doesn't matter that you get 128 megs of working RAM in the 1000. Just as long as you have enough for sample time left over for a whole song. You might be able to do that with 64 megs, but not with 16. I haven't tried this method myself, but I heard that it preserves the MPC's punchiness.

If you have a mixer all you need to do is hook up the MPC to the mixer and hook up your mixer (or any audio reciever) to your PC, which is cheaper than buying any RAM. Or you may be able to get some cables that will hook up your MPC directly to your PC's soundcard.

By LabWorkz Sat May 01, 2004 2:11 pm
Damn LOWKEY25 prolly took his 1k back to the guitar center prolly thinkin it was buggy when it wasnt nothin wrong wit it! :? LOWKEY25 holla at use and let us kno what happened! :wink:

By LOWKEY25 Sun May 02, 2004 11:42 pm
Good joke!! But i didnt find that one to funny!! Lets keep my post serious now..
By Air Adam Mon May 03, 2004 2:36 pm
LOWKEY25 wrote:I need some help!
After creating a song,i uploaded it to my hard drive and tryed to play it.. Windows cannot read the sequence.. On the mpc 1000,when i saved it. I read in the window save all programs and sequences.. I saved it.. Then exported it to my hard drive. And nothing on my computer can understand the file to be able to play it..


Assuming it's the sequence data you want to edit and not just record the sound...did you save the sequence as a MIDI file instead of SEQ (which can only be read by the MPC)?
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By effekt Tue May 04, 2004 3:22 pm
LOWKEY25 wrote:Good joke!! But i didnt find that one to funny!! Lets keep my post serious now..


Dude...get yourself some recording software: CoolEdit, or something. Plug the outs of your MPC to the ins of your sound card. Press record on the soft, press play on the MPC. That's not the best method but you can start with that. IT's an MPC that you bought, not a plug'n play mp3 player. :)

peace!