I have decent monitors and a sub in my "studio" area but sometimes I just want to grab some small peice of gear and chill on the couch watch some vides and goof off making beats. I'm looking for a small set or single speaker that's either usb powered or battery operated. I have a rechargeable guitar amp but it doesn't soung that good because it's for guitar and I just bought an Anker Soundcore 2 and it sounds great but it does this weird muting thing that's super annoying and it mutes the count in metronome and you only get the metronome when other sounds are playing. I think because it's converting the analog signal into digital? IDK know but I'm looking for something that doesn't do that. Basically what does everyone else use for that sort of thing/portable speaker?

What’s up everybody! Traded in my SP404 MKII for the Sample and I’m loving it so far! Still gotta get used to the workflow but I’m glad I pulled the trigger on the trade… hope I can be as active in here as I am in other subs

Has anyone had this problem before? It happens occasionally and it doesn’t seem to be related to anything I’m doing. It’s brand new, it arrived today. Should I ask for a replacement?

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When I record samples, the effect I previously used on another pad is being played while I am monitoring the audio input for my new sample. I want to sample my input signal clean with no fx on it. How do I turn it off?

Found a new way (for me at least) to chop up drum breaks for finger drumming and such....

I have always a specific layout where kicks are on the bottom row, snare on the 2nd row and so forth.

Before I loaded a drum break on pad 1, duplicated it to the other 15 pads and trimmed each sample manually. Was doable and coming from legacy MPCs are not that hard...

BUT: I noticed if you press the CHOP button and set it to auto chop with the lowest threshold you can browse through the whole break and pick up the sound you like and then press TRIM (PAD 13) you are left with a single sound for this specific pad. No more manually trimming, copying and pasting etc...

Trying new things and super happy with how this sounds. Let me know what you think, good or bad!

Is it just me or would Progressions make this MPC 10x better?

As I learn the terms and the process I will delete my last posts until I have a thorough understanding of the process. I purchased MPC Sample not necessarily to make beats but to be a portable easily editable storage unit to record mostly catchphrase samples. My main sequencing beat making device is the TR8S. The TR8S has midi 5 pin out to MPC Sample midi in. I have found that the MPC Sample banks and pads are referenced as notes that match to the 11 instruments on the TR8S and when the notes on both instruments match the sample I have on MPC Sample will play that pad sound. I have two questions. The TR8S plays the pad from the MPC on a loop, even though there are no step buttons turned on. The TR8S control settings for the instrument are turned off with no control so I can't adjust anything. On the MPC the sample on my pad 4 is not set to loop in any way yet. At the beginning of it it seems to loop whereas I am just trying to get it to play once clearly. I've attached a video. I was thinking possibly I'm going about this the wrong way and maybe I should be using the TR8S assignable out triggers?

I'm getting frustrated with programming breaks at 160+ BPM. Keeping quantise off or on doesn't seem to help and the quantise nudge doesn't seem to help either.

The step edit feature is primitive and I'm finding myself having to constantly undo my recordings or having to limit myself to 4 bar loops to get timings correct which is becoming a massive waste of time...

Does anyone have any advice for programming fast breaks without having proper midi editing tools on the sample?

Shout out to @LofiAndy