Is it ok to leave MPC on while I wait for scsi cable to ship

How long do you think would be alright to leave it on so I don't lose my sounds? I saw another forum where people were talking about leaving their units on for over a week at a time. Is this a bad idea?

Well you can't plug in the SCSI without turning off the mpc unless you want to risk blowing the fuse.
Can you not save your work to floppy for the time being?

or record the mpc into the computer maybe?

I would have recorded everything straight into my computer but my interface isn't working properly right now.

I ended up spending some money I didn't really have on a 25 pack of floppies and saving evrythingl to the built in drive. All the sounds saved fine However I am having trouble loading my sequences. I am not sure if they loaded in the first place even though I am doing everything by the manual. It is hard to tell because the unit has been giving me some wrong/ wacked out information. With some blank discs I put in I got a jumbled up string of nonsense something like this "(#&#¨¥ƒƒ˚¥" instead of words and other information regarding memory was clearly wrong. It says each seq uses 0k of memory (blank) but that might not mean they are actually blank (I am hoping)

I'm not too worried if I lost the sequences, the sounds were the main thing and I can recreate everthing else. As long as I dont have this sort of problem when I get my SCSI cable I'm happy thanks!

boomclap wrote: With some blank discs I put in I got a jumbled up string of nonsense something like this "(#&#¨¥ƒƒ˚¥" instead of words and other information regarding memory was clearly wrong. It says each seq uses 0k of memory (blank) but that might not mean they are actually blank (I am hoping)

im pretty sure all the jargon of sympbols i.e. )#(*&))(^%&(*&*(& and it saying 0k means that you lost your sequences. thats has happened to me as well and ive never been able to recover them. id say dont leave your akai on for too long. like some one said you can blow a fuse and it puts more wear on the screen... just asking for lines.

yeah NEVER plug in scsi cables while the machine is on.

mr_debauch wrote:yeah NEVER plug in scsi cables while the machine is on.

yea i could have made that mistake thank you. While on the topic, should all cables be plugged in while a machine is off? Not just regarding the mpc? I am always moving cables around but i normally just turn down all my levels beforehand rather than turning a unit off..

boomclap wrote: just regarding the mpc? I am always moving cables around but i normally just turn down all my levels beforehand rather than turning a unit off..

Just like you say, protect your speakers by turning down the level before plugging cables and you will be ok.

So I had tried one of the disks before that I had loaded some sounds onto, and it worked fine. When I tried some other disks it says "can not read disk" or something to that effect. I had a stack of 10 disks or so sitting on my KRK RP5 speakers. Is it likely that the magnets in the speakers damaged the disks. I have heard of this kind of thing before..

boomclap wrote:So I had tried one of the disks before that I had loaded some sounds onto, and it worked fine. When I tried some other disks it says "can not read disk" or something to that effect. I had a stack of 10 disks or so sitting on my KRK RP5 speakers. Is it likely that the magnets in the speakers damaged the disks. I have heard of this kind of thing before..

So why did you do this nonetheless??
I dont know if the KRKs have a magnetic shield so it could be that you effed up the floppy disk with it.

peace

peterpiper wrote:

boomclap wrote:So I had tried one of the disks before that I had loaded some sounds onto, and it worked fine. When I tried some other disks it says "can not read disk" or something to that effect. I had a stack of 10 disks or so sitting on my KRK RP5 speakers. Is it likely that the magnets in the speakers damaged the disks. I have heard of this kind of thing before..

So why did you do this nonetheless??
I dont know if the KRKs have a magnetic shield so it could be that you effed up the floppy disk with it.

peace

slipped my mind I guess..