Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
By DeepfriedSOUL Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:04 am
I understand how to assign a sample one-shot WAV to my MIDI keyboard, but it is tedious to assign all 61 keys with all different notes.

is there any easy way to do it?

some of samples are just one note and I can vary the note and assign to MIDI keys.
Any programs out there to make this job quick?? (mpc 127 doesn't work on my mac)

I was wondering if there is an automatic program that assigns one-shot note to all the keys on the key board in accordance with approprite keys and notes.
Same goes with my 61 WAV files of B-3 organ that I would like to assign to my keyboard thru MPC note by note on appropriate keys.

If this works easily, then I am so ready to go make some music I've been creating in my head
By brazeca Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:55 am
Have a look here for the Mac soft: http://www.mybunnyhug.org/software (it's Universal binary that works on any Mac, be it Intel or PPC).

You don't have to sample all 61 notes to make a multisample program. The most common technique is to sample few notes from each octave: like, say, notes C, E, G, A. Then you will have fewer samples to assign and more usable memory as a result. And sampling in mono will save you even more RAM space.

When making a program you can transpose same samples to "fill in" the gaps between the physically sampled notes. Example: assign a C-note sample to pad 1, 2, 3 and 4 and gradually transpose it few semitones up, +1 semitone for pad 2 (note C#), +2 semitones for pad 3 (note D) and +3 semitones for pad 4 (note D#) until you get to the next physically sampled note, which is E. And so on.

I don't know any software that would assign samples automatically to notes. Sometimes it is tedious to make multisample program, I agree on that, but again, there's an advantage there: you have full control over it. And you will know what to correct, if it doesn't sound right. When it is automatic and doesn't sound as you intended, then you will have to reprogram it all manually anyway.
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By noramoss Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:45 pm
deep fried if u go to the search and type in mpc 500 project, u will see a link to one of my threads where I set up and mpc project template. On the thread it will tell you everything you need to know about the template.. or you can just go to all my threads posted and see the one I call a nice mpc 500 project setup. it will be the template to all of your settings from now on. Load the project and all u have to do is when you load the samples u load them to the pads u want them on.. the project is in perfect midi sync from Sequ track 01- track 16 are all midi so u can't assign any mpc samples to them, they will play midi channels 01-16..
17 and up is all drum tracks, which means u can assign samples from the smart card to individual pads