MPC Sample projects on your standalone MPC — your way.

For the big standalone MPCs — MPC One, MPC Live and MPC X/XL. When they import an MPC Sample project, everything ends up crammed into a single track — hard to read and hard to edit. This app splits it into clean tracks and turns your chops and "16 Levels" tuning melodies into real, playable programs: chops become a chop program, tuning melodies become keygroups — plus an in-app preview and an optional template for your own mixer setup. Now also supports converting to MPC 2.

Standalone desktop app · macOS, Windows & Linux · Installer or portable.

MPC Sample Project Converter app window

Features

Tracks, your way

Split pads into tracks (each holds a drum program) and name them from a preset list (Drums, Bass, Chops, Guitar, Loop, One Shots…) or your own. Drag rows to reorder — the order is kept in the export.

Tracks panel

Chops to Program

MPC Sample chops live inside the sample, and the standalone MPC can't take them over directly. The converter detects a chopped sample automatically and turns it into its own drum program — one chop per pad, starting at A1. Your performance is rebuilt as real MIDI notes: each hit lands at its original time on the pad of the chop it actually triggered, with the original length and velocity, and the chops choke each other just like the mono source pad. Pitch, filter, envelopes and warp settings come along.

Chops to Program

Tuning to Keygroup

A sample played as a melody via "16 Levels" Tuning becomes a real keygroup program. The melody is converted to real, in-tune MIDI notes — the pitch per note is read from the tuning data and placed relative to the sample's root note, so it plays chromatically in tune. Filter, envelopes, note on/off behaviour and warp settings are carried over too.

Tuning to Keygroup

Sequences

Every sequence is carried over, along with the Song Mode playlist. Rename each one from musical presets (Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge…) or your own labels, and drag the rows to reorder them.

Sequences panel

Preview pads & whole sequences

Audition any pad, or press play next to a sequence to hear the whole thing loop — with the right timing, pitch (tuning), chops and pad mono/choke, so you can tell sequences apart before naming them. It's a quick orientation aid; effects and filters aren't reproduced. Pick the audio output device in Settings.

Pad and sequence preview

More options to match your workflow

If you already sort your sounds by banks, one click turns each used pad bank into its own program. Sort Pads lays every program's samples out from A1 with no gaps (notes remapped to match), so programs stay tidy. You can choose to carry the source's effects over or ignore them.

Options: Banks as Programs and Sort Pads

Settings

Choose the output format (MPC 3 or MPC 2), the interface language, the audio output device used for the pad and sequence preview, and the sample loading mode — RAM by default (which avoids the MPC "disk streaming too slow" warning), or Disk for very large projects.

Settings: language and audio output

Supports converting to MPC 2 & MPC 3

Pick MPC 2 as the output format in Settings and the converter writes MPC 2 projects instead. Samples, all sequences, the Song Mode playlist and the complete pad sound come along: pitch and tuning, filter, envelopes, warp, choke/mute groups, pad mutes, panning and the pad insert effect with all its settings. Chops keep cutting each other off and tuning melodies become keygroups — just like the MPC 3 output. MPC 3 remains the default.

Output format: MPC 2 or MPC 3

Rename Project

Save time: Just number your projects on the MPC Sample and rename it comfortably with the app later. Build the converted project's name from flexible elements: auto-numbering (continues from the highest number already in your output folder), the project name, BPM and an optional "s" marker that flags an MPC Sample source. Toggle and reorder the parts, set digits and separator, and watch the live preview — the name is applied to the folder, the .xpj and the project data. Optionally the source files are renamed to match.

Rename Project pattern builder

Your own template (optional)

Want your converted beats inside your own setup? Tick Template and pick your MPC template once — its mixer, submixes, sends, master FX and track layout are kept 1:1. Skip it and a clean default project is used instead.

How it works

  1. 1
    Drag & drop an MPC Sample project (.xpj) onto the window. Chops and tuning melodies are detected right away.
  2. 2
    Set your output folder — and, optionally, tick Template to use your own MPC template as the skeleton.
  3. 3
    Name the detected chop/keygroup tracks, split the rest into tracks and rename sequences — or just hit Start.
  4. 4
    Click START. A ready-to-open MPC project is written to your output folder. Originals are never touched.

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Changelog

v1.3.0 Beta

  • Feature Date element for Rename Project — the naming pattern can now include the source project's creation date (yy-mm-dd).

v1.2.0 Beta

  • Feature MPC 2 export now matches MPC 3 — the track split, "Banks as Programs", "Sort Pads", program and sequence order, program renaming and the chop/keygroup auto-programs all apply to MPC 2 output too. Each track becomes its own program, each chopped sample its own chop program, each tuning melody its own keygroup.
  • Feature Program insert FX for MPC 2 — a chosen pad effect and your own MPC 2 template's program inserts are carried; if more than four pile up on a program you're asked which to keep.
  • Change "Keep Color Compressor" and Disk Streaming are marked MPC 3 only (they don't exist in the MPC 2 format).
  • Bugfix Chopped samples no longer overlap — a chop program that was silent in a sequence used to fill that sequence with phantom slice notes (MPC 3 export), so samples played over each other. Silent chops now stay empty.
  • Bugfix Duplicate sequence names are now made unique on import (e.g. "Sequence 01" / "Sequence 01 (2)"), so identically named sequences can be told apart.
  • Bugfix Converted projects now open on the first sequence, and every program that plays anywhere shows an editable (empty) track in each sequence.

v1.1.0 Beta

  • Feature MPC 2 export — convert projects to the MPC 2 format; choose MPC 2 or MPC 3 in Settings. Samples, sequences, Song Mode and the complete pad sound (tuning, filter, envelopes, warp, choke groups, mutes, pan, insert FX) are carried over.
  • Feature Rename Project — pattern-based output naming with auto-numbering, s-marker, name and BPM elements.
  • Feature Windows installer — available alongside the portable .exe.
  • Change New Output format setting; MPC 3 stays the default.
  • Change The Template toggle now defaults to off; the bundled clean template is used unless you pick your own.
  • Change macOS builds are signed and notarized.

v1.0.0 Beta

  • Feature Initial beta release — Chops to Program, Tuning to Keygroup, tracks & sequences, in-app preview, optional template, Banks as Programs, Sort Pads, 4 languages.
  • Bugfix Sequence order and names fixed; stray chop-pad FX removed.