Quote Originally Posted by crime
you can do it on the 4000 but not the 2000.... you could assign the same sound to every pad, but you would have to tune them all seperatly...
Pressing the 16 level button will open a dialog box and by choosing note variation, you will spread the sample over the pads. It is possible to choose the attack, decay and filter to be spread around too. The decay option is very good for making livelier hihat lines etc. You won't need an open and a closed hihat, just use one long one and vary the decay. The filter-thingy is useless, because the filters on the mpc are crap.

One fun thing is (with a small sample) using note variation and then pressing the repeat button down. This way you can use the mpc as a sort of a synthesizer. Try using different time signatures too. With a 32nd(third) you can even create pads. If you decide to use a longer sample, I'd advice you to not to have the sound in a polyphonic mode, since there will be loads and loads of sounds creating the longer sound. I prefer the mono-mode anyway with this working method.

I like the mpc vey much thank you.