how to get my first beat out the 4k onto cd to play in car

First want to say this site is very helpful and thanks to those taking there time to help!
ima newbie to the 4k and just the akai family period. up until now i been doing beats with fl studio.
some may wonder why i started with the 4k, well the deal was too good to pass up.
On to my problem at the moment i just learned how to make your basic hip hop beat and i assumed that i
can export this beat as i do in fl studio. Now with fl studio i usally export in wav or mp3 file and it will load up in
my windows media where i would then burn it onto cd to play in my car. I tried this witht the 4k by saving memory to
cd and when i load the cd into my laptop i get all these wav files except for the beat or song itself which is in midi file.
all the wav files play like the kick snare etc. and even the sample i used will play normal but when i play the actual beat it plays weird. im sure it has something to do with the file being midi so what can i do to fix this. ive went over the manual in sections that i though could relate to this and im just not seeing it. i want to note too that i dont have anything else but the 4K alone to making my beats. im slowly building but right now its just the 4K and my laptop with fl studio. but im assuming if i can do it with an laptop and fl studio alone why not 4k. i hope my problem is clear enough to get the help i need. basically im trying to get my first beat made on da 4k onto cd so that i can play it in my car.

Theres no way to "export" a mixdown in the 4000. I dont think its possible with any mpc?

Theres a backwards solution to this though: What you do is you go into the sample window and choose to record the "mains out" and then hit play on the mpc while "sampling" your song. Itll create a wav file with whatever is playing when you hit play. Then you gotta move the file to your computer via ak.sys and burn it to a audio cd because the 4000 cant burn audio cds.

Hope that helps.

thanks man i wll try that. So if the 4k dont burn audio cds how is it commonly done with the mpcs specfically the 4k.

Kalei wrote:Theres no way to "export" a mixdown in the 4000. I dont think its possible with any mpc?

Theres a backwards solution to this though: What you do is you go into the sample window and choose to record the "mains out" and then hit play on the mpc while "sampling" your song. Itll create a wav file with whatever is playing when you hit play. Then you gotta move the file to your computer via ak.sys and burn it to a audio cd because the 4000 cant burn audio cds.

Hope that helps.

Thanks a lot man that worked just like you said but now im wondering how is it commonly done with the mpc specifically 4k. i assuming you can only track out the beat and run it through home studio with pro tools set up or at the commercial studio. if so then i guess i would have to get any ineterface or pro tools. Or am i way off. Thanks again!

The way to get the wav file to the computer is to use the AKSYS program. If you dont know about it, its a software that basically shows the 4000 on your computer. Just connect it via usb to your computer and install aksys and you will be able to transfer the wav mixdown to your computer, after that just use whatever cd burning program and make it a audio cd.

All the software is available at http://www.akaipro.com/contentmgr/showd ... /1119/tt/5

You will have to install the USB driver and install that too.

sage wrote:

Kalei wrote:Theres no way to "export" a mixdown in the 4000. I dont think its possible with any mpc?

Theres a backwards solution to this though: What you do is you go into the sample window and choose to record the "mains out" and then hit play on the mpc while "sampling" your song. Itll create a wav file with whatever is playing when you hit play. Then you gotta move the file to your computer via ak.sys and burn it to a audio cd because the 4000 cant burn audio cds.

Hope that helps.

Thanks a lot man that worked just like you said but now im wondering how is it commonly done with the mpc specifically 4k. i assuming you can only track out the beat and run it through home studio with pro tools set up or at the commercial studio. if so then i guess i would have to get any ineterface or pro tools. Or am i way off. Thanks again!

usually you would either track it out into a daw (pro-tools, cubase, reaper ect.)

dez perado wrote:

sage wrote:

Kalei wrote:Theres no way to "export" a mixdown in the 4000. I dont think its possible with any mpc?

Theres a backwards solution to this though: What you do is you go into the sample window and choose to record the "mains out" and then hit play on the mpc while "sampling" your song. Itll create a wav file with whatever is playing when you hit play. Then you gotta move the file to your computer via ak.sys and burn it to a audio cd because the 4000 cant burn audio cds.

Hope that helps.

Thanks a lot man that worked just like you said but now im wondering how is it commonly done with the mpc specifically 4k. i assuming you can only track out the beat and run it through home studio with pro tools set up or at the commercial studio. if so then i guess i would have to get any ineterface or pro tools. Or am i way off. Thanks again!

usually you would either track it out into a daw (pro-tools, cubase, reaper ect.)

thanks man, woud reason work also.

nah not if youre a n00b. nothing works when youre a n00b. nothing works by its self that is. i know you probably think itll be easy to make a beat... just connect the dots, right? n00bs are all the same. just punt em around like pucks hahaha

you already look like a fool. i dont need to do any work here.

rich_biatch wrote:nah not if youre a n00b. nothing works when youre a n00b. nothing works by its self that is. i know you probably think itll be easy to make a beat... just connect the dots, right? n00bs are all the same. just punt em around like pucks hahaha

you already look like a fool. i dont need to do any work here.

it dont matter homie see hip hop was made for me a black young man from the hood like me we always make things our own i may sound stupid but i bet my beats will survive longer in the hood than yours and anywhere else for that matter. yeah ima noob on the mpc but im olskool on kickin ass aint no rules to this. the mpc wasnt even made for what ****** do with it now and you surburban boys just follow suit. stand up str8 now you just got fuked in davy jones locker sounds such like a pale boy lol! and yeah my first vinyl was fat boys and run dmc i bet you started to buy vinyl when you thought you could make beats then you thought about yo fathers old collection right no soul at all just a lotta imitaters tryna get that sould we african-americans are born with. go obama we run this biyatch now! lol

it dont matter homie see hip hop was made for me a black young man from the hood like me we always make things our own i may sound stupid but i bet my beats will survive longer in the hood than yours and anywhere else for that matter. yeah ima noob on the mpc but im olskool on kickin ass aint no rules to this. the mpc wasnt even made for what ****** do with it now and you surburban boys just follow suit. stand up str8 now you just got fuked in davy jones locker sounds such like a pale boy lol! and yeah my first vinyl was fat boys and run dmc i bet you started to buy vinyl when you thought you could make beats then you thought about yo fathers old collection right no soul at all just a lotta imitaters tryna get that sould we african-americans are born with. go obama we run this biyatch now! lol

what a cute monkey! ooh look hes got an mpc! see the cute monkey pound on his mpc!

you keep believin homie

rich_biatch wrote:what a cute monkey! ooh look hes got an mpc! see the cute monkey pound on his mpc!

you keep believin homie

i guess i hit a nerve. where you live boss. you gotta sister better yet is yo moms bored! lol i can pound on her lol

yes yes a real man talkin heah

rich_biatch wrote:yes yes a real man talkin heah

cant finish what you started boss? bs aside i will match you on a beat. im curious to see how wack you are!

heres mine big guy... and this was made when i was a noob over 15 years ago. hip hop aint my thing and it never was. i was asked by a chicago rapper to make this for his demo. i have counciled many aspiring hip hop producers of all races. but i sure wouldnt help you. i used to work at guitar center and people like you would come through and think all you had to do was buy this or that. we usually just sold to you and laughed behind your back. its all good homie. you go on ahead with your attitude. it will defeat you for me. i wont have to lift a finger!

rich_biatch wrote:heres mine big guy... and this was made when i was a noob over 15 years ago. hip hop aint my thing and it never was. i was asked by a chicago rapper to make this for his demo. i have counciled many aspiring hip hop producers of all races. but i sure wouldnt help you. i used to work at guitar center and people like you would come through and think all you had to do was buy this or that. we usually just sold to you and laughed behind your back. its all good homie. you go on ahead with your attitude. it will defeat you for me. i wont have to lift a finger!

when have anyone tried tearing you down because of not knowing or having the knowledge that others had and if you had been how did you feel about it. And i seen you tear another down in another thread because of a question you feel is stupid. I can tell you now that in any profession specifically when one becomes a teacher and even for those who are students, there is no stupid questions.It clearly shows you make yoself feel big by picking at others you believe you have an advantage over but If you knew anything about muscianship and more importantly humanity you wouldnt be tearing people down no matter what level of skill. Over 15 years and you still havent established yoself as a professional i guess thats an accoplishment for you. Bottom line, over 15 years obviously you dont have a better way to utilize your time other than to be in threads tearing a fellow artist down and that seem like such a waste. And the people you laughed at are just ignorant because of the lack of knowledge they have but you are the stupid one for not sharing the knowledge and getting paid more on commision. Though there are some people who think they know it all but if you suggested to me that hey man you need this and that to accomadate yo mpc 4k than i would take your word and experience as that and then you getting paid and im a happy customer but while you laughing at the end of the day if you think about who is really stupid? I wouldnt want to be in business with you lol!