Note drop out!!!!

Experienced the same problem here with the notes dropping out......I found a note labeled 001.01.01 in between bars 012.04.00 and 013.01.00........I removed that note and the problem disappeared.

Thanks Od3rus!

damn. this ain't comforting. i plan on picking up a brand-new 1000 in three days.

i'm sure it's just an O.S. issue, and it'll blow over after a new one is released. i wouldn't let i worry me.

A couple of times I've used the Move function heavily in Step Edit mode, I've ended up with some very strange results and had to trash the track contents and had to rebuild it. I noticed each time that it went wrong some of the events in step edit mode were being in the wrong order, i.e. not sorted in bar.beat.tick order. Scary.

p.

It's funny!!!!

When I posted about this same issue 1 month ago I got flamed beyond belief!!

Hopfully AKAI see's this as an issue and remedy's in the nest OS.

Intelx

dont use the move feature. that will take care of the note drops if they're os related.

now, answer me this

* is your most often repeating sample (probably that hi hat) stereo or mono?

--> all of my drums are in mono all the time. in fact, all the samples on my mpc at any one point in time are mono. maximize your polyphony. let a sound module/computer sampler/anything other than your mpc worry about the extra polyphony load of a stereo sample. DRUMS, however, REALLY never have to be stereo unless they're fills. in fact, now that i think of it, that's probably the one time i use stereo samples in my mpc - sampled fills. even they are often converted to mono.

before anyone complains about this - realize that you can recreate a better stereo field WHEN you track out your beats. if you refuse to take that necessary step of the beatmaking process, well...stop complaining.

* are all your samples trimmed as small as they can be?

make sure no tail silence exists, esp in drum samples. don't worry about chopping room noise, just remember that even when nothing is playing, 1 voice is being used.

* make sure most of your samples are monophonic, unless they HAVE to be otherwise.

*for pete's sake, dont use 8 bar long samples. at LEAST chop your samples into 2 bar pieces. at least. chop small, thank me later. this is very important.

follow these cardinal rules and you'll have good results. i haven't had a note dropout in my mpc100 since back in '89

Antonym wrote:i haven't had a note dropout in my mpc100 since back in '89

yeah but they don't make them like they used to! lol

Mr modnaR wrote:i'm sure it's just an O.S. issue, and it'll blow over after a new one is released. i wouldn't let i(t) worry me.

yeah. i hope that's the case. my overall impression is that their are plenty of ppl on here who make GOOD use of the mpc1k. so... there shouldn't be too much to worry about. ---> i just gotta adapt.

i used to be a programmer too... and then i lost the passion for it. as well an occupation.......... and that unix certification sure as hell did no good. muthafukers.

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the move issue i definitely think is an os bug and there's no work around other than the old copy/paste/delete. i'm still fine with that. a new os will easily fix it, and i am excited about that. machine just keeps getting nicer.

the other note dropout issue is just the user getting used to his/her mpc.

Antonym wrote:...the move issue...

Can someone refer me to the *most-applicable* post, relating to this issue?

I ran some searches, but I don't think I've found the correct one that Antonym mentioned.

i dunno what thread it was originally stated in
but the problem is when you move a couple events, the mpc decides to stop playing stuff later than that although the notes are obviously there in step edit

it's not at all the same or even related to the note dropout nonissue

Antonym wrote:it's not at all the same or even related to the note dropout nonissue

yeah, i know. thanks for the heads-up though. i'll try and be careful when i get it. (ie. "receive the mpc")

thanks, b.