Just Wondering (MPC)

[Gboy]

Yo everyone--


I was just wondering what you guys do in terms of editing samples. Do you sample somethin into the MPC and edit it on their or use your computer to edit it with like cool edit pro and then put it back into the MPC. Cause I am getting really frustrated with trying to edit samples on the MPC. That means even looping something. I just think it's so hard. Any thoughts?

Peace

 

[vitaminman]

Hey,

While Cool Edit is a fine editor, it does lack in the ability to transfer files to a sampler across SCSI. There are programs which will do this: Recycle is probably the most straight forward, then Sound Forge is probably the most powerful. Wavelab as well...

You could also try Wave Surgeon, I remembered that it worked better than Recycle on an older EMU sampler I was playing with.

You'll need to get a SCSI controller card and a SCSI cable to connect your MPC to your computer.

Take care,

Nick

 

[fame_keyz]

what i do is sometimes i will layer drum samples on the mpc....since my mpc is hook up to my sound card after it comes out my mixer board...ill open up my nuendo program and ill chain up a few plugins.....start teaking the sounds from there. once i get a good new sound ill cut off the unwanted parts save it as a wave and from there add it to my kick or snare or whatever folder....but before i do that ill add it to a Mpc kit with the mpc editor from there ill just save that kit on a zip disk and pop it back in my mpc....but im looking at getting sound forge soon.

 

[Billy Bathgate]

I edit them right in the MPC. what could help is to highlight either the start of the end and to get you edit more exact use the open window function and you can really get up close as far as you editing goes.

 

[EXEL THE BRAIN]

i use cool edit to edit my shit and then just load up the chops and shit on the mpc......... i wish the mpc came with cool edit....... they should hook up

 

[otniel-one]

vitamin,
the mpc's (up to 3000 at least) can't be hooked up straight
to a pc or share a scsi drive with one. the most convenient way
i guess is to have two zip drives, one on both pieces of hardware
for data exchange. just remember not to use mpc formatted
disks.

 

[vitaminman]

Exel,

I tried to get Syntrillium to do a thing with Akai because of all the people who use both CEP and the MPC...the president and product managers were so out of touch with sampler/computer based music that they had no clue what the MPC was and that lots of hip hoppers were using cracks of their Pro and 2000 software. I even brought the president over to my studio to show him how people are using wave editors and sent him links to the great CEP tutorials Fade posted on this site...he wasn't interested.

Then, a few weeks later they announced that they were being bought by Adobe!

I find it hard to believe that you can't plug the MPC directly into a computer across SCSI (I'm not saying you're wrong, it just blows my mind that Akai wouldn't include this feature). Maybe the Zip thing is the way to go, provided that the MPC can read dos-formatted disks.

Nick

 

[otniel-one]

sad but true.
http://www.mpc-tutor.com/faqs/storage.htm

 

[andrzej00]

I do it like this. First I sample from turntable to Sound Forge, mark all cuts i want as regions(R key) and name them a01...d16 when i'm finished i go Tools/Extract Regions and i only select drive or directory i have all samples down where i want. then via zip to mpc. that's the whole story.

 

[xkwest]

from the turntable, i record into the mpc only if the sample is small, like 3-5 seconds....(cuz those waveforms take a while render{when the mpc has draw the picture of the wavefile})...

but anyways.... most of the time....if i want to record the whole song or a big chunk of the song, i'll record to the pc...into cooledit... from there its so much faster to actually see the whole waveform.... chop pieces...that could be useful.... delete garbage parts of the waveform... and when thats done... i save a copy to my harddeive and a copy on my zip disk...just case i mess up too much with the sample on zip..i can always go back to the original on harddrive...

from there... i play with the sample on mpc after loading from the zip disk.....
.
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[egokilla]

I record into SoundForge as a master copy if im @ home or around a DAW. If i'm out and about our at a cats house who doesn't have a decent editor, then I sample directly into the MPC.

I've found that sampling directly into my samplers uses much less memory than if I was to import them.

 

[MadScientist]

I go straight from the turntables or CD player directly to my MPC 3000 ... I do all the editing in there.

 

[inrctyhoodmusic]

If I sample I sample into the asrx chop it and do what ever I have to do to it and sequence it via midi on the mpc