Sysex audio data failure

Hi there,

I try to send a sampledump kick to the MPC, and Sound Forge is counting the dump upp to 100% and says finish, and the MPC is saying "receiving..." but when its done, it just goes back to initial state. No window pops up for note assignment.

And when I try to send to the PC Sound Forge program, it sends nicely and a new window with that kick sample I just sended - shows up.

But how can I assign the data received, that obviously is in the memory - to a pad !!!???

The machine is in init state and no data was previously in memory.

Any hint would be appreciated.

Are you doing this via midi.......I guess you are???? All I can say is the only time I tried to do a midi sample dump I got no result either & that was between two Akai machines: my MPC2000 & an S3000xl. It was easier just to swap the sounds on floppies.

Has anyone got this to work?

"But how can I assign the data received, that obviously is in the memory - to a pad "

This is covered nicely in the manual. Same process as if you just loaded it from disk.

High,

Thanks for replys.

To Mr mpc3000: No, it is not nicely stated in the manual. I.e. the manual is wrong. I can explain how now.

Mr featherboy, I did got it to work. But not as it was stated in the manual.

This is the working method:

1. Sound Forge 6: Load a drumsample, goto "Tools" menu and select "Sampler". Choose the S2000 template as it is compatible.

2, Make sure BOTH midis are connected. Out and IN, as the program works in duplex (request send acknowledge etc)

3. On the MPC choose shift/midi, and select "dump" screen.

4. Make sure the midis are connected to correct input and output in that screen.

5. Send the dump from Sound Forge, pressing "Send". (Here I had a problem with not having selected midi in/out device in the Sound Forge Sampler config window, and then I had to save the template.)

6. The MPC2000 now says "receving..." and the Sound Forge is showing a progress bar. A drumsample is pretty quick to transfer about 10-20 sec. Loops of music is however too timeconsuming, but anyway handy. Sound Forge is a lovely editor.

7. Heres the step that was stuck for me. After dump was finished, no window poped up on the MPC, allowing me to assign sample to pad, as was stated in the manual. Instead, the "receive..." just disappeared and nothing more happened. This is however normal. Next step is 8.

8. Hers the solution. Now goto "Trim" on the MPC. Select sample. You now have a new sample called "midi_01" or something. Select that, and jump to the waveform area, as you now can see the new sample. Move endpoint so it grabs the prefered range of your new sample. Hit play in that screen. Voilá! BOOM! The monsterkick!!

9. Now goto "Program" on the MPC and choose a pad for your sample (that now can be heared) Select decay mode and all the rest. You are finished.


Now, when I had transfered about 20 samples in a row, and was going to spread them all out on the pads, the MPC bugged out on me... I got a window full of debug information, and had to power off.
But Im sure, it was all about me trying to do all at once without saving each step of the development. I just lost all samples. I will do it once again when I have time, this was an attempt to make a service workshop master Zip cartridge as I didnt have any sounds to try the machine out with. I just fixed the initial INITIAL problem (a defective tune slider) and went to bed
(im a service tech...)

Good luck with your sysex sessions!

"But how can I assign the data received, that obviously is in the memory - to a pad !!!"

That was your question. My answer to that question is found on pg 117 of the manual. Which also is your step 9. You did not ask anything about sending multiple samples or help with whatever software you were using. Sorry.

mpc3000 wrote:"But how can I assign the data received, that obviously is in the memory - to a pad !!!"

That was your question. My answer to that question is found on pg 117 of the manual. Which also is your step 9. You did not ask anything about sending multiple samples or help with whatever software you were using. Sorry.

No, your wrong again.
My problem was regarding page 184 "When Sample Dump receive is
completed, the following window will appear:" [picture]
That "following window" did not appear. I think I explained that pretty clear in my question

"and the MPC is saying "receiving..." but when its done, it just goes back to initial state. No window pops up for note assignment"

But I understand that if you missed that little detail, its easy to answer like you did. No problem, bro

Finally I understood that Mr Featherboy have had problems with this, and perhaps others, so I took the opportunity to share the workflow on this matter. No offens to you I hope! Perhaps you can make a sticky of it and grant me a VIP membership?