![]() Copy all of this to a CF card, chuck it in the MPC and it basically just works. This command will traverse the whole tree and create a replica in your home directory called DrumLib that omits all of the Battery-specific stuff, but with all the WAVs converted for MPC use. You'd want to replace 'sarah' with your own username. ![]() name "*.wav" | while read i do echo "$i" mkdir -p "`dirname "/Users/sarah/DrumLib/$i"`" sox "$i" -b 16 "/Users/sarah/DrumLib/$i" rate 44100 done Next step was to cd to the root of the Battery library:įind. If you don't have MacPorts installed, you'd need to install that first. ![]() If you have MacPorts installed, you can install sox as follows Luckily, bash came to the rescue! That and sox. For the uninitiated, the MPC uses only 44.1k 16 bit WAVs - mono or stereo is OK, so I needed to convert them. A bit of investigation revealed that most were not in MPC-compatible formats. ![]() Within that is a (huge) tree containing some Battery-specific stuff and a huge number of WAV files. I had a poke around and fairly quickly found out where the Battery library lived on my Mac: The reply mentioned that Battery stores all its samples as WAVs. I happened upon a post somewhere on one of the Ableton boards where someone was asking how they could use Native Instruments Battery (the NI drum synth/drum-specific sample player VST/AU plugin) samples in a regular Ableton drum rack. I did some experiments hooking my Electribe to the MPC and sampling that - it worked great, but it's lots of work and more hours than I could really throw at it to do it justice. Coming to the MPC world, I'm kind of starting from scratch - though it would be a lot of fun to make my own drum library from scratch, it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to sample stuff I already have. ![]() Full disclosure: I'm just moving to using an MPC from using softsynths - my last two albums were all softsynth based, but the next one will be (mostly) hardware. I've only got a 1000, so I'm posting here. This applies to any MPC that uses WAVs, so I think all of them except the MPC-3000. ![]()
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