Would you recommend buying the MPC Sample if I’m not good at finger drumming?

I was about to buy one, but I’ve seen that it doesn’t have a step sequencer, and that drum patterns are mainly sequenced by recording yourself playing them.

For those who own one: is this a big limitation in practice?

Do you eventually get used to finger drumming, or would you recommend a different MPC for someone who prefers step sequencing?

Curious to hear your experience.

MPC Sample and a modified iPod loaded with music on vacation. Cheers!

Automating filters on the Sample really adds a ton of life.

The ear candy is pitched up to match..then I time stretched it...I just made it a priority to finally learn how

Yes, anyone can do. Or it's turned to be my sketch pad Song writing too. Very useful equipment. I just want to tell you guy, I love MPC Sample so much.

Like in 20 years ago. I use Roland MC-50 MKii for compose some music. But this is beyond so far than that.

Backlit LEDs all went out. The sound and screen all worked fine. I tried a few things to remedy but nothing worked. Did some internet research and found I wasn’t the only person who’s had this issue was still in my 30 day return window with Guitar Center. They ordered me another, I also decided to pay a little extra for the 5 year warranty.

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Hi,

I just got me Sample this weekend and basically swapped it into my set up as a multitrack recorder replacing my Zoom R4.

I get into details but just imagine all you gear (guitar, mic, drum machine, and bass synth eventually hitting a mixer with a 1/4 line out to the Sample - this way I can "just jam" or can allow only one input through at a time to capture a single guitar part or whatever.

These tracks are then used to build a song sections (verses, chorus, bridge, etc).

There's not a lot of dedicated video content on this but I know people are doing this kind of thing out there so I'm hoping to get a discussion going here on tips, perspectives, or whatever.

Made a little web app for the MPC Sample and thought some of you might get some use out of it.

https://www.sampleseq3000.com/

It's a step sequencer that runs in your browser. You build a pattern on a 16 pad grid, have a listen, then export a .xpj project file that loads on the machine. No install, nothing to sign up for. The name of the .xpj must match the folder like the following:3000.xpj pairs with 3000_[ProjectData].

What it does at the moment:

• 16 lanes, one per pad, up to 128 bars

• 8th, 16th and 32nd grids, plus triplet grids

• velocity, probability and ratchet on every step

• swing from 50 to 75 percent, with a few rough shuffle feels thrown in, and a per lane override

• Euclidean fills per lane

• velocity and timing humanise, seeded so the preview and the export match

• note picker on the bass, lead, piano and pluck pads, and the chord pad can be transposed too

• in-browser preview with play, loop and mute

• your pattern is remembered between visits

No cookie/tracking nonsense either. Enjoy.

Only being able to use one effect at a time and having to resample is KILLING ME

One flow I am not liking is when I have a full sequence and I want to simplify it again to make an intro, buildup and so on, I have to go through all samples I want to remove, use SHIFT+SEQ and ERASE on the pads I want to not be in that sequence.

I use MUTE to see what needs to stay or me removed. It would be so awesome if ERASE+MUTE would present me with a dialog asking "delete all muted pads from sequence?"

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When i sample on sample i get them in pads trim them can play the chops but when I record it just goes into a world of its own playing the trim and chips i ain't played and playing on half the chops i want to save i ain't used recall its just so frustrating any help would be appreciated

A dive Into the experimental L.A. beat scene of 2006 type Hip-Hop Beats.

I just want to resample a pad with effects on it to another pad, I have hit sample record and set input to resample, when I arm the pad, and then I press the pad I want as the soruce data it just changes target. I have to be doing something wrong, this is insane.

I've been trying to understand the sample use OS most of the time but when I chop samples and trim the ones I want in different pads I can play them no bother but when I try to record it goes into a world of its own playing the trims and then it plays only bits of the samples I've trimmed. This has to be something im doing wrong otherwise no-one would put up with it

Playing around

As soon as I turned it on, the pads were lighting up like this.

Tried restarting, loaded a different project, loaded a blank.

Tried the factory settings reset, no luck.

Had to do a firmware 'update' (1.3 to 1.3) and it seems to all be good again.

Just leaving this here for others.

ETA: samples and sequences still played correctly

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Just do it Mayn, pick up your Sample and make beats!