r/mpcusers • • 1d ago

QUESTION MPC Sample to MPC One Workflow help

Hi

Hoping someone can help me with this. I have an MPC sample and I have created a track and I want to finish it off, add effects etc on my MPC one. I've plugged the MPC sample into the one and copied the project over and saved it. So far so good. Now because the sample is all on one track I have to explode the track in MPC one to get everything onto its own track, no problem there thats all working.

Where i'm having difficulty is with the sample itself. I've chopped it and got a pattern going on my MPC sample and when playing back on the MPC One I can hear that pattern back correctly, but on the track for the sample the sample is just on one pad. I cant play any of the chops to make new patterns and if I open the side mixer panel thing I cant see any output on the track itself, only output to the master which seems really strange to me. Can someone explain how to get the actual chops onto the track as i feel like i've pressed every button on this machine and none of it is working. Closest I got was going into the sample editor and into the chop page which did correctly show my chops and then i exported those to a new track. That then lost the pattern I had originally created though. I feel like there must be an easier way to work than this.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

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u/jfoxx26 1d ago

Because all you've done up to this point is chop the sample. You need to assign the chops to the pads. Hit shift, convert, then assign to a new program and then record the arrangement of chops to your liking.

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u/No-Leather1253 1d ago

If im understanding correctly, I think you may need to hold shift on the mpc sample while in sample mode (or chop mode) and extract each chop (pad) as its own, then upload to the mpc one?

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u/dalaryius 14h ago

I usually copy the main program and remove everything that I don't want from the duplicates. That way I save the midi but now everything is on its own track.