By sorgekind
Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:29 pm
So i finally received the card reader for the mpc, and yesterday I installed it.
the mpc needed some love, it had some broken keys and some pads were really dirty so I took care of the baby, with new keys, black pads and the card reader.
The quality of the card reader is a bit meh, it came bent and the plastic front plate was glued with hot glue, by the second time I ejected the SD card the front plate fell down... whatever, I can fix that.
But the MPC went nuts! I noticed that the LED of the reader was blinking al the time, but since loading programs worked, I didn't really care. After 10 minutes of playing, te MPC started doing some strange noises, which wouldn't stop even if I stopped the sequence. The sequence played normally, the noise was just "on top". strange.
Switched off and restarted, after 10 minutes the same problem. Restart needed, second time I lost some work. So by the third restart of the machine, I loaded a program, recorded a sequence and saved immediately -after saving the LED of the card reader wasn't blinking anymore, just lit like it should be, and the MPC worked for the rest of the session without any glitch or random noise.
I whish I had sampled the noise as it was a really deep and intense low freq rumble with some hi freq glitching on top of that, but i was so scared something could fry I always switched the MPC off immediately.
tomorrow I'll hit the studio again and will try saving something immediately to see if the blinkng goes away... if that's the workaround I can live with it, but it's a strange thing happening here.
the mpc needed some love, it had some broken keys and some pads were really dirty so I took care of the baby, with new keys, black pads and the card reader.
The quality of the card reader is a bit meh, it came bent and the plastic front plate was glued with hot glue, by the second time I ejected the SD card the front plate fell down... whatever, I can fix that.
But the MPC went nuts! I noticed that the LED of the reader was blinking al the time, but since loading programs worked, I didn't really care. After 10 minutes of playing, te MPC started doing some strange noises, which wouldn't stop even if I stopped the sequence. The sequence played normally, the noise was just "on top". strange.
Switched off and restarted, after 10 minutes the same problem. Restart needed, second time I lost some work. So by the third restart of the machine, I loaded a program, recorded a sequence and saved immediately -after saving the LED of the card reader wasn't blinking anymore, just lit like it should be, and the MPC worked for the rest of the session without any glitch or random noise.
I whish I had sampled the noise as it was a really deep and intense low freq rumble with some hi freq glitching on top of that, but i was so scared something could fry I always switched the MPC off immediately.
tomorrow I'll hit the studio again and will try saving something immediately to see if the blinkng goes away... if that's the workaround I can live with it, but it's a strange thing happening here.
