Akai MPC 3000 hooked to S950?

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I have an Akai MPC3000 I just recently purchased a Akai s950 beautiful unit...

(1.) Problems: I'm trying to hook the s950 to the mpc3000 to use as a trigger and sequence the sounds' I'm able to get the sound through only I have to hold the pad in order for the sound to play entirely is this normal? and is there a way to change this to have the note play the entire sample like most sampler can? I'm able to assign just one sound to the midi channels: I need to have it multi timbral to use different instrument sound on separate midi channels? The programs and the keygroups in the s950 are a little confusing & the manual is stone age' somebody hit me with some knowledge on the s950, consequently this machine has a great sound and I love the flexibility with the parameters....

(2.) Last option: Would be just to sample/ edit my sounds into the s950 and re-sample them into the mpc3000 just to incorporate the machine into my work-flow, but I would like to utilize the machine to it's capacity! Thanks

"Raised of Samples"

You need to set the S950 keygroup to "one shot" in Edit Program. That plays the entire sample no matter how long you hold the pad down for. The rest of what u want to know is probably in the manual as well.