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Were you using a MIDI to SMPTE converter of some kind? The MPC 1000 only has MIDI I/O, no SMPTE tape sync. And the stock firmware only offered regular MIDI clock, not even MTC[1], though it is possible to get MTC in and out of an MPC 1000 using the unofficial JJOS OS[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_timecode

[2] http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~mpc1000/

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You're holding it wrong. You can just record a real one and play it back. I use the same cursed approach with my 2500XL to intake/chop/modify/output cv/note signals to a modular setup (which has a handful of outs that don't need to be modified to do this)

JJOS is legendary though. Crazy how much it adds

>You can just record a real one and play it back.

A real what?

A real LTC timecode signal. It was designed to be recorded on tape and used to sync multiple tape machines together among other uses.

Did a similar thing too with a sample of a single square pulse which allowed us to "sequence" a Juno 60 arpeggiator.

Sorry, yes it was MTC, not LTC!

We used JJOS. It is such an awesome upgrade over the stock OS.

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