question about sampling with mpc and turntables.

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sup,

i'm thinking about buying a mpc 2000xl or a mpc 2500 and also a turntable for sampling. I was looking for some advice from people who have experience with using turntables to sampling with the mpc. do these cables usually come with the turntable, or do you have to buy them seperatly?

my first question is: . What cables, or other equipment is required to connect the turntable to the mpc for sampling?

question 2: what is needed in order to make a finished audio track with the mpc. what i mean is; is it possible to produce a track ready to be burned to a cd from the mpc...if not, what is needed to do that?


question 3: is setting up a turntable to the mpc hard?

question 4: what is needed to connect the mpc to my stereo speakers? i have two huge speakers and an aiwa av-d58 receiver. what will all be needed in order to connect my mpc to that?


the biggest fear i have is buying this mpc 2500 and then realizing that i don't have any of the cables required to connect the mpc to my speakers, or cables required to connect my turntable to my mpc for sampling.

all help would be appreciated
 
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you need a turntable and a mixer. !/4 inch cables from the mixer to the mp and rca cables from the turntable to the mixer. Some turntables come with the rcas built in like tech 1200 others dont. You need a computer an audio interface and a recording program such as cubase to record your beats to.
 
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question 4: what is needed to connect the mpc to my stereo speakers? i have two huge speakers and an aiwa av-d58 receiver. what will all be needed in order to connect my mpc to that?
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You don't want to use a stereo system to mix on. You'll want to buy a set of reference monitors for mixing. Reference Monitors don't color the sound of your music. So what you put in is what you get out. You'd run your MPC into your computer recording software or you can mix on the MPC if you want (much more complicated if you ask me) then do a stereo bounce to the pc, but you'd do the mix using the reference monitors. Then burn a CD and then you can listen to your finished product on your stereo system.
 
Question 1 :: The turntable goes into a mixer (DJ mixer, 12 ch mixer, whatever) using RCA's then the mixer goes into the MPC with 1/4 inch cords.

Question 2 :: Yes, you can make a track ready to be burned. On the MPC, you can mix your beat down in SONG MODE and then enter RECORD mode. You'll most likely need the 128mb ram upgrade for the MPC. In RECORD MODE, under INPUT, change it to MAIN OUT. Press record (F6) then press PLAY START. When you record the beat, save the sample with whatever name and save it to the hard drive or the compact flash and put it onto your computer. It'll be a WAV file but you can burn it to a cd.

Question 3 :: If Question 1 was confusing for you...then yea. My answer and probably everyone else's is no, its not hard.

Question 4 :: You'll need 2 1/4 inch to RCA cords. Go from the STEREO OUT of the MPC into the AUX IN on the back of your receiver. You'll be able to hear it there. Make sure you have the MAIN VOLUME on the MPC turned up.

If you want to get serious about makin music, a MPC\TT set-up will most def work for you. It's not hard to set up, and not hard to get the hang of it once you start messin around.
 
If your budget is low, you can start just as is if you have the right cords. Generally, turntables come out as RCA cords. If you have an adapter to turn the RCA's into 1/4 inch cords you can go right into the back. You don't necessarily need the upgrade, if you are really trying to chopp samples. I've been making beats for a minute now and just got the upgrade last year, just to have it. The stereo sample time is only 10 sec., but the mono time is 21.9 sec. Mono is almost better because in some instances music is mixed drum heavy on one channel or the other so you can better isolate a sample with or without the drums. Honestly, I don't even need all of that memory to make a beat, but it doesn't hurt either. I used use my head phones when I first started, then graduated to house speakers, then got myself some event monitors. In the end the above listed equipment is what your goal is, but if you want to turn and get toying while you stack doe to reach your goal, follow those directions.
 
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Thanks Alot guys... I thought my MP would be collecting dust forever.
I 've composed beats on and couldn't or had no way to gether them off so i erased them every time.. Also i just recently tried to chop up something on it from a Floopy and it seem's i can't even load the samples because my MP doesn't have the space. So i just wanted to know how did you sample in ur MP without the upgrade. I chopped it on my PC and put onto floppy to mess around with on my MP.
 
i use a tech for sampling, but u can buy a cheap tt from radio shaq with a built in amp and u wouldnt need a mixer with it....
 
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