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Section 6: Sampling and editing sounds

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3. You must now decide which of the 34 drums you want to sample the new

sound into (31 normal drums plus 3 for the hihat). Use the DATA

CONTROL to select one of the 34 drums. As you rotate the knob, the

NAME field will display the current sound (if any) which is assigned to the

displayed drum. If you select a drum which already contains a sound, that

sound will be erased from memory to make room for the new sound you

will be sampling.

As the warning states, once you press SOFT KEY 1, <Proceed>, not only

will the displayed sound be erased (if one exists), but also THE ENTIRE

SEQUENCE MEMORY WILL BE ERASED! This is necessary because

the sequence memory is used as a temporary holding area for the newly

sampled sound.

Once you have selected the drum to sample into, proceed to the next step

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This is the main sampling screen.

4. Move the cursor to the LENGTH(SEC) field and select the amount of

recording time you want to use for your sample. All sampling is done at the

full 40 KHz sampling rate- no other sampling rates are permitted (This

allows the circuitry to be optimized for full bandwidth recording). The

maximum sampling time will be determined by how much memory is

currently available. If the maximum available sampling time is not enough

for the sound you are sampling, you must first delete some existing sounds

from memory. To do this, select the EDIT A SOUND option from the

SOUNDS menu.

NOTE: Even though the MPC60 has a maximum total sampling time of

13.1 seconds (or 26.2 seconds if you have the memory expansion option),

the maximum sampling time for a single sound is 5.0 seconds. If you are

not sure how much time to use, use a little

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