Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
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By Menco Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:47 am
It shouldn't be impossible for the machine the divide the number of samples in lets say 16 parts?
E.g.: If u have a sample that's 32000 samples long, and the 500 would ask u in how many chops u won't the sample to be chopped. U just enter the number of slices u want, 16 in this case, then it wouldn't be impossible for the mpc to divide the sample in 16 equal parts? (so 16 samples of 2000 samples)Scroll thru the slices, adjust the start and end points manually and then extract?

The screen is big enough to show all this data in numbers and letters. I'm not an expert with software, but this shouldn't be so hard to add this future to a new OS or maybe a jjos?
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By 3rik Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:08 am
akai did this on purpose...they want you to eventually upgrade to a newer model mpc and put more money in their pockets
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By Menco Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:18 am
3rik wrote:akai did this on purpose...they want you to eventually upgrade to a newer model mpc and put more money in their pockets


Wouldn't suprise me at all
Just like they don't take full advantage of the 1k's hardware in akai's software design, hoping that we all want to upgrade from an mpc 1000 to a 2500
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By 3rik Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:43 pm
Menco wrote:It shouldn't be impossible for the machine the divide the number of samples in lets say 16 parts?
E.g.: If u have a sample that's 32000 samples long, and the 500 would ask u in how many chops u won't the sample to be chopped. U just enter the number of slices u want, 16 in this case, then it wouldn't be impossible for the mpc to divide the sample in 16 equal parts? (so 16 samples of 2000 samples)Scroll thru the slices, adjust the start and end points manually and then extract?

The screen is big enough to show all this data in numbers and letters. I'm not an expert with software, but this shouldn't be so hard to add this future to a new OS or maybe a jjos?

I hadn't thought of that....that would be crazy!
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By inflict3 Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:06 pm
yea,. it seems like it would be possible....
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By MIDIchlorian Fri Dec 26, 2008 1:26 am
Chopping that way on the asr 10 takes a lot of time.

Your better just to sample a few different parts and assign to different keys on the same instrument button.
Much faster that way on the ASR..

As for the mpc500
Sure no auto chop..

So just sample in you loop then copy it as many times as you want different chops,then edit each one differently..

Honestly sometimes the old school ways like that I did 10 years ago are faster then the new chopping features on Mpc..
By master-ceo Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:51 pm
3rik wrote:akai did this on purpose...they want you to eventually upgrade to a newer model mpc and put more money in their pockets


**** that just Upgarde to a Cheap Laptop with Recycle and Soundforge.
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By Cold Snap Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:31 am
I will dare to say the 500 will NEVER have a "chop shop"... Like master ceo say tho... if you got the software & pc... it's all the same, if not better in my opinion... chop shop just seems like a lazy concept to me, I could be wrong about it bein I've never tried it but I actually enjoy choppin my own shit.
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By robthom Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:40 am
I'm not even sure what chop shop is, never needed it. I assume it segments your sample automatically?
I probably wouldn't use that anyway.
But what I would like would be a multiple start points function, like a studio 440 that you could set manually. It would save precious sample pad real estate instead of breaking one sample into multiple parts over 3 or 4 pads.
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By Ill-Green Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:24 pm
I don't use chop shop in any form. I like chopping manually on my 500 to get those precise cuts. Check out my post on the 'Graphic waveform' thread on this forum for the formula. Extract feature rules for me.