Hi peeps, i've been trying to use an MPC 1000 to make some beats and for some reason when i transfer samples over to it's hard disk via USB only some of them work?
i think i've figured out it doesn't allow full stops in the file names but there are some that still wont work?
what are the requirements for sample files for the MPC, obviously theres more to it than just being .wav?
i thought it might be because the samples are 24bit but im pretty sure most of the samples i put on were 24bit and they play fine, but its not very easy to tell in vista since when i click properties it doesn't state the bit depth?
is there any software that will automaticaly convert files into a suitable format?
I don't know enough to be able to help with the MPC specifically but IIRC, I think the MPC 1000 is only happy with 16 bit files... 16 bit files are smaller too and you'll barely (or won't) be able to tell the difference between those and 24 bit files... I do record my samples at 24 bit but I always convert them to 16 bit before dropping them into my snths/samplers.
For converting stuff, try Wavosaur... It does batch conversion too which is nice!
If your just 'exploring' your drive, click once on the sample and along the bottom of the window it should give you length, size, and bit rate....do this instead of using right click and properties
Thanks for the reply, I'd heard about the file length issue but Im just using drum hits at the moment so they're very short and this can't be the problem. I also checked the explorer window in vista and this does give the bit rate but this is similar to the sample rate because it reads 1411Kbps, I was wondering about the bit depth.
I can select bit depth when I right click the bar at the top of the explorer and select 'choose details' but nothing is displayed in the column so I suppose vista can't determine that info from a .wav file on it's own?
It's very strange that the manual doesn't give information on the specific requirements of sample files!?
I'll check out Wavosaur today and report back, thanks for the link.
The problem is that the MPC CAN load samples with filenames longer than 16 characters but it can only DISPLAY 16 characters.
Thus if you have two samples - 'Stereo Ludwig Sn1' and 'Stereo Ludwig Sn2' - it can only display 'Stereo Ludwig Sn' and thus you will only be able to hear/use the first one loaded even though both are in memory.
It causes some head scratching - the two samples are all but identical, you remember loading them (you might try reloading them again to make sure) but you can only see/hear the one yet when you look at them elsewhere, they seem fine and play fine and are the right 44/16 spec ... but they don't work in the MPC... or rather, only one does
It's caught me out a few times.
I'll bet that if you rename them to 16 characters or less, they will work.
On my 2000xl if they are over 16 characters or use characters not supported a lot of the time it reads a buch of gobbledygook..and I can't be bothered to re-name stuff lol so on most of my zips the basic samples are a bunch of jargon hahh
I had the same problem, I found the following solution at noaudiooutput.com
Find the latest version of your driver, download it, uninstall your current driver and install the new one. After uninstalling the driver and reboot it to automatically reinstall it, the audio still may not work. Amazingly though, sometimes after putting the system in hibernate mode and coming back, the audio worked.
Hope it helps if it doesn't they have other suggestions.
