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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