HDD Connector

Penfold wrote:I still bought it to satisfy my own couriosity and actually realised why.
They thing I agree with you a strategy rethink is in order, cause they have lost touch with a rapidly moving market. I swear they live next door to NINTENDO, cause they have the same issues. No disrecpect to the Japanese business comunity, but haven been there last year should me how business is done and you have to understand that the way us westerner think and do business is diff over there that it can some times hinder development. They get great ideas and do great products but sometimes miss the avenue of continuation and rely on a traditional outlook. why many of my Japenese friends come to live in England cause the lack of progression holds them back. Oh well maybe Numark will encourage a new age of thinking for Akai.

Interesting stuff.

All this said, I am using my MPC1000 as a drum machine, multitrack device and sequencer; and I have to say it is really, really nice. I am dead-set for mucking around on the MPC1000, and only then shifting across to the PC for final production. It's that good. Like, y'know?

yeah man, I just recorded a whole track with 3 guitar parts (layered and for chorus) and bass. Of course I sequenced drums, and then put it all together in about 1 hour... its so easy to put quality tracks together. If any of you have a guitar or bass sittin around, GRAB IT UP. You can plug right into the mpc... highly recommended! I will try to get the track up on my site soon! Some of my tracks do feature some bass and guitar I did...


And in response for the first post. GO GET THE 128 UPGRADE!

"42 pin outs including earths on the miniture cable correspond to a 2.5" HDD. you can test this for yourself with a multimeter."

It seems it would just be easier to borrow the CF connector and ribbon from another MPC1000 and test the HD connector. Electrically, the existing CF reader and the HD connector are identical. And cards "appear" as HD's.

Jessiah wrote:yeah man, I just recorded a whole track with 3 guitar parts (layered and for chorus) and bass. Of course I sequenced drums, and then put it all together in about 1 hour... its so easy to put quality tracks together. If any of you have a guitar or bass sittin around, GRAB IT UP. You can plug right into the mpc... highly recommended! I will try to get the track up on my site soon! Some of my tracks do feature some bass and guitar I did...

And in response for the first post. GO GET THE 128 UPGRADE!

In response to your response: I bought the Kingston value 256Mb RAM for peanuts, and it works a treat.

Secondly, I'm using my MPC to sequence synths, which I then record (via some FX units) back into the box. So straightforward too! The MPC1000 could become a formidable recorder with HD streaming and more parallel FX (even without the HD, the Fostex MR-8 has shown you can stream eight tracks at least off a suitable Flash card). As it is, we can get by with resampling and export to PC. Incidentally, the reverb is one of the best digital reverbs I've heard, aside from the Lexicon plugins.

We going to hear some of yer tracks then, ay boy??

PS. Stickin ma neck oot, I'd say that it's a crunch-time for defining the role of samplers: RAM and hardware capacity is such, that they could quite feasibly act as hard disc recorders too. Now wouldn't that be sweet...

the mpc1000 is an insanely ample package for a **** good price.

no denying it.

for 1000$, you get a MIDI sequencer, multitrack recorder, sampler, drum machine, bass line thingy (q sliders), 16 levels, the ability to record 24 minutes (!) of samples.

24 minutes is a long long time for samples.

the ability to make a midi sequence with 100 tracks, and basically infinite programs.

being safe in knowledge that the MPC1000 will not be superceeded (at least from a users point of view) in less than 10 years.

you get CD quality sampling too, 24 minutes of it. that is insane.

that sort of price for hardware.

the effects dont really limit you, as many people simply use external effects processors.


im sorry if anyone disagrees, but i think the mpc 1000 is a very very very cheaply priced item, in comparison to other items available.

Yes mpc3000 thats sounds correct but I just could not wait to see how they connected the half pitch connector so here it is...

Im not sure where pins 22 / 26 / 30 connect. I guess they would just connect to a some of the empty ground pins as per the IDE pinout guide.? Any thoughts?

before I posted the diagram I wired it up but incorrectly again I forgot to skip track 11 (grounded) . So it did'nt work.

I will have to attempt this again using the diagrams I have supplied. Any ideas?

anyone else willing to try the mod? just supply you HDD with power from an external powersupply.

PS.
I had the drive powered up.
The 40 pin cable connected to the board.
The board not plugged into the mpc.

and the drive would not spin up - this is also how I knew that I had done it incorrectly.

It would be much easier if I could find an adapter for a miniture ribbon cable to standard IDC header cable - or do as mpc3000 suggested CF trick.

"Im not sure where pins 22 / 26 / 30 connect. I guess they would just connect to a some of the empty ground pins as per the IDE pinout guide.? Any thoughts? "

It is common to not have every pin connected.

ok . tryed again. dont work! maybe its cause the drive was not previously partitioned into 2GB partitions and formatted .. but at this stage Im just going to take a break.

boooooo

this is a bit off topic but what is the connector for located near the memory slot?

finally the HDD option has been released. just refreshing ppls memory of the shit we had to go thru & how long it took to get what we wanted.


Keenly awaiting the release of OS2

my1k wrote:finally the HDD option has been released. just refreshing ppls memory of the **** we had to go thru & how long it took to get what we wanted.


Keenly awaiting the release of OS2

any news about what connector it is? i would not mind making it myself.
Im gonna have to whait 4-5 months here in Sweden to ge one....

soyo wrote:

my1k wrote:finally the HDD option has been released. just refreshing ppls memory of the **** we had to go thru & how long it took to get what we wanted.


Keenly awaiting the release of OS2

any news about what connector it is? i would not mind making it myself.
Im gonna have to whait 4-5 months here in Sweden to ge one....

i don't think my1k made one or found something else. i think he was referring to the HDM10. remember, this particular thread was started last year.

my1k- i can be wrong but i think that's what you're talking about, right?