MPC Sounds and MPC Samples

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We are a premier website for MPC sounds and MPC samples. Soundcrafting.com has been around since 2002 and we continue to put out quality samples and loops for hip hop music production. We are known all over the world. We started out selling the Get Phat Audio sample CD but later moved to MPC 2000, MPC 3000 and MPC 2000 XL Floppy disk. We now sell sounds not only for the akai MPC series drum machine / Sequencer but sounds for popular software programs like fruity loops, which is also known as FL studio. We also sell for sounds for the popular propellerhead product Reason.  As the market has changed we have added sounds for products like MPC 1000 and the new MPC 500.

We have one shot samples like drum sounds, kick drums, snare drums, hi-hats, percussion sounds, EFX sounds. We later expanded our library to include loop products like keyboard samples and loops, guitar loops, and drum loops. In December of 2006 we launched www.loopking.com which is dedicated to drum loops and all types of hip hop loops.  If you do not know what a sample is or loop is a short recording that can be played back by a sampler or used as loops to build a multitrack arrangement. All the samples we sell are in .WAV format. 

We use programs like Sony Sound Forge and WAVELAB to edit our samples and loops. A waveform editor is very useful for preparing samples. (Samples are short recording that are used as source material by hardware and software digital samplers.) Waveform editors can be used to edit samples, adjust samples and loop samples. If you own the right type of samplers that also supports your wave editor you can define your sample points.  There are several types of loops but the most common loop is where the loop section is played back one time and an infinite loop is where the sample continues to play as long as you hold down a key.  Some of the samples we sell, such as individual drum hits, are usually left un-looped. These are what the industry calls one-shot samples or MPC sounds. They are called one-shot samples because the wave plays once from start to end, no matter how long you hold down the key or MPC pad.  When you loop samples you want them to sounds seamless when they loop back to the start point. When the loop or samples comes back around you want it to sound as natural as possible.  When you edit samples in a Wave form editor once you have finished working with the sample you want to export the sample to your sampler and use the samplers onboard editing wav tools to shape the notes overall tonal quality other performance characteristics.