Anyone else get clicks or pop when looping?

It drives me crazy and has been for years using the XL. When I make some small loops on the xl it always Pops at the end as it loops around. I can never get around it! I might have to just say fuk it and buy a different mpc.

Pro tip: Try hitting open window while in the Trim screen

There's another way around that, except the Zero Crossing Points. Try putting the attack inside the PARAMS screen to 1 or 2 and the decay on 99 at END. This way, you can get a barely noticeable fade in/out in order to stop those clicks/pops.

However, the best way is to edit those chops correctly is with the Zero Point Rule.

Don't be afraid to put some air space infront of your sounds i.e. kick drums

i wish the xl just had a little line showing the cross point like it does on those diagrams lol

Thanks for all the help guys.


Lamp I never knew that right there. GOod info. I remember vaguely hearing something about this some years back

and the 2kxl is not gonna give u an accurate visual cue for zero crossings.....

gotta use them things hangin on the sides of ur head

i dont get too many pops. if any. never knew of that zero thing. i've just been making sure i zoom in to get the beginning and ends as accurate as possible.

also if you adjust the envelope in the programs screen in the attack and decay you can make the transitions a little more subtle.

four eyes wrote:i dont get too many pops. if any. never knew of that zero thing. i've just been making sure i zoom in to get the beginning and ends as accurate as possible.

also if you adjust the envelope in the programs screen in the attack and decay you can make the transitions a little more subtle.

Yeah Ive Tried using the envelope settings and it doesn't do anything. Imma try out that zero crossing thing though

I never got why Akai didn't do this on the MPC-2000XL
Look here is a screen shot of an Akai S-3000 series loop screen


Oh look it's only about 10000 times better
You can join youe end and start points to mach and you can also press find for the sampler to find the perfect x-over point then you got the option to x-fade to make any clicks if there are any go away and you can normalize the sample if it's too quiet.
Some one needs to re-write the OS for the XL to include that
Akais that I know do this are:
S3000
S2800
S3200
S3000XL
S3200XL

Shame I dont own an S3000 any longer I'm going to buy one again though in the new year just for the EB-16 FX board though to stick in my MPC

thanks 4 the tip

if any of those akai racks i would choose the s3200XL, It got the multimode filter and effects.