By strength
Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:22 am
my verdict is the 500 is kinda weak and this is comin from somebody who was mad exited about this piece. i think the pads are one sheet unlike the 1000 but and its a big but, theres space between the pads and the sensors underneath and u have to hit the pads pretty hard even on full velocity, if u dont hit em hard enough they just dont trigger cause the rubber doesnt press in enough to touch the sensor. the sequenser timing is on point just like every other mpc. one huge issue that encountered right away thou was pads triggering other pads when the sequense plays back unless theres a setting in there that was on to do that on purpose. then i sampled a 2 bar loop just to mess around recorded it but as soo as the loop came around it triggered a different sound froma different pad bank instead of the sample and though i didnt have much time to figure out why i poked around a little and could figure it out. another thing is my polyphony ran out after like maybe 6 voices and this is wack. i made a bassline out of 4 bass notes then sequensed a drum loop consisting of a hihat, kick and snare then i put another bass note over it and that bass note wouldnt play when the loop came around and no, there was no mute groups on however the mpc 500 does have mute groups or 1 mute group i think which is cool u can also normalize samples, reverse and extract which is also cool and something i didnt expect to see. any feedback....? for those who actually read this whole saga lol