after its done recording a screen should come up and it asks u if u want to rename it and then if u want to assign the song to a pad. i usually just press "to pad" which is f4 or somethin. lets say u named it as sample01...then you hit mode save and to to save: a sample, and then go down until you see sample01. save that to the flash card. then connect the usb from your mpc into your computer and then hit usb on the bottom of the mpc screen....and then on ur computer it comes up, open it and then open the song called "sample01" which for me just opens in itunes and then i convert it to mp3 becuase it's a wav file when u first make it. hope this helps pm me if u have questions