Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By sixtycyclehum Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:37 pm
so yesterday i removed my 8 outs card so i can sell it, and after putting it back together i hooked it up just to be sure everything was still working properly. i loaded some drums and got carried away and loaded a sample and started laying shit down, when all of a sudden the sound started tripping out! when i just had the drums recorded it was fine, then i layed down some chops and the playback was distorted as ****. like mad distortion as if the cables are bad or something. like when you wiggle cables around and sometimes you get that distortion sound, but WAY bad. so i turned the mpc off, turned it back on again and did the same thing. again, drums were fine, but as soon as i started layering more stuff, the sound went buggy.

could i have touched something on the motherboard when i took it apart? whatever it is, it isnt happening right away, only after i record more tracks. thought it could be the cables, but it does the same shit when i listen through headphones. i havent really touched it at all since yesterday and i didnt attempt to open it back up or try to investigate further, im just hoping it will go away haha. anyone ever experience anything like this?
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By kebzer Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:36 pm
Open it up and check your RAM chips to be fitted ok.
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By EMFinite Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:25 pm
you definitely touched something.. i'd try putting the expansion card back in, testing it and carefully removing it again.. this time carefully watching what youre doing...

sounds like you may have screwed up a solder/contact point somewhere on the board.

By sixtycyclehum Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:42 pm
nevermind its not the mpc, its doing the same shit with my computer as well.
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By kebzer Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:02 pm
lol man, check you plugs and cables.

By sixtycyclehum Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:49 pm
ok i am retarded. it really is the mpc. after a few minutes of playing with sounds everything becomes riddled with static. i dont know what to do.

By nanoloop Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:11 am
yeh might have knocked one of the internal jacks.
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By swift_-' Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:37 pm
Do you have ram with gold adapters, if you dont that could be it i just had the same thing happen to me, even if it it it might have just gone bad and the good stuff is like 30 bux on ebay shipped.

By sixtycyclehum Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:49 pm
im gonna put my money on the problem being with the ram. i was sure to not touch anything on the motherboard, ive worked on many computers internally and i know better than to do something like that. i really hope its the ram or else im gonna have to sell this shit or something.