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Chapter 8: Creating and Editing Sounds

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Sampling a New Sound

This function is used to record new sounds into your MPC60. All

sampling is done using a 16 bit analog-to-digital converter at a 40kHz

sampling rate, and compressing the data into a special 12-bit non-linear

storage format. While the MPC60 is essentially a mono sampler, there

does exist a way to sample stereo sounds. See the section below

entitled “Sampling stereo sounds” for more information.

COMMENT: As with all samplers, all sounds are lost when the

power is removed. This means that you must load in sounds

from a sounds disk every time the MPC60 is turned on, and you

must save any edited or newly sampled sounds to disk, or the

changes will be lost!

To sample new sounds, press the SOUNDS key to view the menu

screen, then press 5 to select the Sample New Sound option. This will

cause the Sample New Sound screen to appear:

=========== Sample New Sound ==========A

Length(sec):26.2 Pre-Record: 1

Monitor:ON Threshold%(T): 1

Record Level:50

========================================

Meter:T

========================================

All sampling is done while this screen is showing. The fields and soft

keys are:

• The Length field:

This field is used to specify the total recording time to be

allocated to the new sample, in increments of .1 second. The

longest a single sound can be is 13.1 seconds if your MPC60’s

sound memory is not expanded, or 26.2 seconds if it is.

COMMENT: If you frequently find that you need more memory

even when all sounds are deleted, you may want to add more

memory to the MPC60. See the section “Expanding the Sound

Memory” in the Appendix for information about how to do this.

COMMENT: The maximum sound size that will fit on one floppy

disk is 13.1 seconds mono or 6.5 seconds stereo. If you save a

sound that is larger than this to floppy, the MPC60 will

automatically save it as two “split” sound files, each of which fits

on a single disk. The first part has “{1}” added to the end of the

sound name and has a file size of 773K. The second part has

“{2}” added to the end of the sound name and contains the

remaining portion of the sound. When part 1 is reloaded, the

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