Sampling Question

Hi everyone. I was thinking of buying a mpc 1000 but I have a sampling question? I do not have a turntable or records to get my samples into the mpc. Instead I am using ruckus to down load the music I want to sample. I have a way of removing the drm protection from the music and convert it to wav format but if I were to load the music into the mpc hard drive or cf card is there any way to sample from those places or would I just need to buy turntables and start a vinyl collection. Thanks

Anyone?

You can load the wave into the MPC from the PC and edit it from there. I do that on files i download from the net. You just wont be able to do it with a barebones MPC. Youll need to have the Ram upgrade and at least a 2gb CF card.

What pound said. You can alsohook your PC up to your MPC like any other sound source with the right cables. That way you can sample it into the MPC (As much as you need). That is how I sample my MP3's. THis got me through until I could get a mixer for my TT. Good Luck...

don't believe them... if you sample anything other than vinyl, the MPC wil blow up.

that's right... if you sample from MP3s, it will explode!

Being serious, sampling from an mp3 source gives you a thin wack sound. Won't do it that way if I was you. I would recomend you to sample like this:

You're already on the right way to convert your mp3's into wave files. Chop those files up in a kind of freeware audio software like audacity. You can hook your mpc to your pc by usb. Copy the files to your CF card the pc recognizes as an external disk. And your done.

Still I would advice you to buy records and sample from vinyl anyway. Because then your samples will sound much better, thicker and warmer. Plus you can't find all the cool stuff on the web. Rare vinyl recordings are often the foundation for a good track.

Menco wrote:Plus you can't find all the cool stuff on the web. Rare vinyl recordings are often the foundation for a good track.

Yea that is true.

I'd just like to point out that if you convert an mp3 to wav it will not improve the quality. The quality of a sound follows the quality of the worst recording, in this case mp3. For example you couldn't record a mono record to stereo tape and expect it to suddenly become stereophonic - both left and right channels would still be the same...

Sampling:
You might as well get the cable to go from your soundcard line out to the MPC input. That way whatever you play on your computer can be recorded onto the MPC. No need to worry about DRM. If you can hear it you can record it

You can also record from the radio for all manner of lofi sounds. The Beatles did it, so why can't you?
Look up "number stations" on the internet. If you have a shortwave radio sample these for some real oddness!

You can sample off CDs by playing them in the computer and using the line out cable.
Plug some heaphones into the MPC record input, crank the gain up and one of the earphones will act like a lofi mic.

Vinyl can be an expensive hobby, but it sounds really good. Humans can hear past the snap crackle and pop of old vinyl but not the squelch and tinnyness of a bad mp3.

Where can I get a cable that has 3.5mm to two mono(one left and one right) 1/4". Thanks

dave_g wrote:I'd just like to point out that if you convert an mp3 to wav it will not improve the quality. The quality of a sound follows the quality of the worst recording, in this case mp3. For example you couldn't record a mono record to stereo tape and expect it to suddenly become stereophonic - both left and right channels would still be the same...

Sampling:
You might as well get the cable to go from your soundcard line out to the MPC input. That way whatever you play on your computer can be recorded onto the MPC. No need to worry about DRM. If you can hear it you can record it

I've experienced that, mp3's that are converted to a wave files doesn't increase sounds quality. But when I sampled mp3's I didn't record the soundcards lineout, because that will decrease the quality of sound even more most of the time. I would still go for the audacity chop routine, because u don't want something that sounds bad turn out to something that sound worse.

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sample vinyl, but don't sleep on VHS and DVDs.

Nym wrote:sample vinyl, but don't sleep on anything else that can be sampled from.

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