Can I use Pitch Bend, Modulation, and other MIDI Continuous Controllers on samples?
The MPC1000’s sample engine simply does not support that, by design. It isn’t like a general sampler, it is optimized for drums, so we suspect that Pitch Bend etc. are luxuries that probably use up too many CPU cycles. This is not to be confused with MPC1000 Sequencer support for CCs, it happily records all the CC messages it receives and plays them back to other MIDI devices.
