Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By samee9 Sun Aug 24, 2014 11:03 pm
This is something im completely lost for direction on, every now and again (15%~ of the time) when i hit a pad to play a sample it will play back and sound duller almost as if the lowpass filter was set to 90, this will continue until the sample has stopped or been hit again (for loops it will continue until i take my finger off). This doesnt record as midi information however and so will vary as i play my recorded sequences back.
If anyone has an idea of the ballfield this issue may lie in itd be much appreciated, does it sound like a motherboard prob? electrical interference? Thanks.
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By Lampdog Sun Aug 24, 2014 11:39 pm
Maybe old pad params are still there on the pads.

Maybe there is some event in the seq that is causing this, go 96 or tc off and then step edit through the whole sequence, step by step to see if something is there that shouldn't be. It might be a note or control value or effect or something in there.
By samee9 Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:47 am
On the particular .APS save ive managed to consistently recreate the issue with, it is only affecting one sound (irrelevant of which pad its assigned to or what params [i assigned to multiple pads simultaneously to test]) and is also always 8 hits apart (with tc/timing off)

edit: able to recreate issue on multiple .APS saves some with multiple sounds affected, all still happens exactly 8 presses of the particular pad apart

re-edit: one of my saves just went from having a few sounds affected to all of them affected when it was loaded for a second time, the original still has just the one affected however, still 8 presses apart...


None of this happens in the trim screen on any of the relevant sounds
Last edited by samee9 on Mon Aug 25, 2014 1:16 am, edited 3 times in total.
By samee9 Mon Aug 25, 2014 1:59 am
Nevermind it would appear all this is somehow the fault of my Allen & Heath 10fx mixer, thanks anyway
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By Lampdog Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:30 am
Mixer problem? Did you try all of this without the mixer? How did you figure out the mixer was at fault.
By samee9 Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:22 pm
Yeah, first off i tried the headphones straight into MPC's headphone input no prob.. then the headphones into the left/right of the main output, still no prob, did back and forth A and B checks with the mixer.
Then by process of elimination on my mixer this problem seems to ONLY happen when im monitoring through an aux mix, which is confusing in itself but yeah...

Also found a problem where a slight amount of sound is bleeding too both the mainmix/aux mix, even when the respective nobs are at null (so long as gain stage nobs are set), and further astoundingly when both the monitor master and headphone master nobs are also at null.
By mistichevibre Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:53 pm
Hi guys,
I've got a problem with my mpc. After half an hour/an hour that mpc is on, when i play the pad i hear a noise/rustle. A guy that had a similar problem said me that he changed a condenser and he solved the problem. The problem is that i don't know what condenser i should change.I hope that this is a typical problem of the mpc and someone could help me..