lop sided MPC fix.

I went to wal mart and bought a pack of footcare bunion pads and put one on the rubber mount of my MPC and it evened it out perfectly.
Just wanted to share with you guys
the proper name of these are: Sentinel Foot Care travel pack, they are in a Orange and blue bag type package.

I used a small black towel that blends in with my desk. Cusions it and evens it out perfectly too. Thanks for sharing that...

I rested mine on a ringed notebook binder. You know, the big kind. I have it placed so the MPC is resting on it, tilted upward, toward me at about 30 degrees. I really like it tilted up like this. It looks totally pro.

I spoke with Akai today and the typical fix is to place one of the `low`corners on the MPC manual and press down on the oppisite corners to `reshape` the MPC.

Otherwise, my suggestion is to loosen the chasis screws while on a flat surface and retighten.

mpc3000 wrote:I spoke with Akai today and the typical fix is to place one of the `low`corners on the MPC manual and press down on the oppisite corners to `reshape` the MPC.

Otherwise, my suggestion is to loosen the chasis screws while on a flat surface and retighten.

~Shouldnt have to do all that bulls!it tho! AKAI needs to get there sh!t together if u ask me!

LabWorkz wrote:

mpc3000 wrote:I spoke with Akai today and the typical fix is to place one of the `low`corners on the MPC manual and press down on the oppisite corners to `reshape` the MPC.

Otherwise, my suggestion is to loosen the chasis screws while on a flat surface and retighten.

~Shouldnt have to do all that bulls!it tho! AKAI needs to get there sh!t together if u ask me!

aint that the truth. You spend $950 on a well respected company and they tell you to push down on one end to RESHAPE your module

Agent725 wrote:

LabWorkz wrote:

mpc3000 wrote:I spoke with Akai today and the typical fix is to place one of the `low`corners on the MPC manual and press down on the oppisite corners to `reshape` the MPC.

Otherwise, my suggestion is to loosen the chasis screws while on a flat surface and retighten.

~Shouldnt have to do all that bulls!it tho! AKAI needs to get there sh!t together if u ask me!

aint that the truth. You spend $950 on a well respected company and they tell you to push down on one end to RESHAPE your module

~LMAO that's what Im sayin! AKAI better get it together! But AKAI still knows we still goin to f$ck wit them and keep buyin there mpc's so they not worried!

Only $950? Try buying any peice of musical gear for $950 even 20 years ago. $950 would not even buy you 8 meg of memory then.

You guys act like the think should be laced in gold. IT IS A BUDGET BOX! It is the bottom of the barrel. I am surprised we did not have to assemble it ourselves. Before anyone complains that that amount of money `is a lot to them` then you have got a lot to learn about the being a gear consumer. $950 is not a lot of money when it comes to gear. The MPC3000 listed at $3995. The MPC60 at $2795. The last keyboard I bought, the Waldorf Q, was $2995. Even those are drops in the bucket when it comes to recording studio equipment such as mixing desks, monitors, effects, and recording.

STOP YER WHINING AND JUST PRESS THE CORNERS OF THE MACHINE DOWN. DO NOT SPEND MORE TIME COMPLAINING THAN IT TAKES TO FIX IT.

mpc3000 wrote:
STOP YER WHINING AND JUST PRESS THE CORNERS OF THE MACHINE DOWN. DO NOT SPEND MORE TIME COMPLAINING THAN IT TAKES TO FIX IT.

This pointless post just goes to show how much YOU value your time....this is the second time you have called people out for complaining about the defects of the MPC 1000. I figure if this many people are complaining about it then there is a problem no matter how insignificant you may think it is. And although 950 bones isnt anything when it comes to setting up a studio, its enough to expect a product with defect free manufacturing. I mean d@mn if Akai is gonna build these things with sh!tty slave labour then they should lower the price or something and stop calling it professional.

mpc3000 wrote:Only $950? Try buying any peice of musical gear for $950 even 20 years ago. $950 would not even buy you 8 meg of memory then.

You guys act like the think should be laced in gold. IT IS A BUDGET BOX! It is the bottom of the barrel. I am surprised we did not have to assemble it ourselves. Before anyone complains that that amount of money `is a lot to them` then you have got a lot to learn about the being a gear consumer. $950 is not a lot of money when it comes to gear. The MPC3000 listed at $3995. The MPC60 at $2795. The last keyboard I bought, the Waldorf Q, was $2995. Even those are drops in the bucket when it comes to recording studio equipment such as mixing desks, monitors, effects, and recording.

STOP YER WHINING AND JUST PRESS THE CORNERS OF THE MACHINE DOWN. DO NOT SPEND MORE TIME COMPLAINING THAN IT TAKES TO FIX IT.

I just wanna know why you keep coming to the 1k section if you seem to hate it so much? Or do you come here just to bash it?

3000 is right, all gear has shortcomings, and akai were struggling a little while back. Gear is pretty cheap these days comparitavly, but that doesn't help a situation of the present day budget musician. You can get an ASR X prett cheap, lots of powerful older gear for pennies on the dollar. The 1000 might seem like it is expensive for it to have all these bugs and issues when you can get a 60 or a 200 for 5-600, but as 3000 points out, look at the original price, that is an indication of what they put into developing it. Now look at the 1000, for 950 you get a lot, but the price had to be shaved from somewhere. I think Akai did a good job at the shaving mostly, but those software bugs keep me away from recommending it to people most of the time.

Regardless if I paid $900 or $9000 for this machine, I want it to work right.
expecially when it is something as crucial as this.

im a welder, and if I go and weld a shelf together for someone for really cheap and it falls apart the next day what good is it? You cant give people SHIT and expect them not to complain. Regardless of how much they paid.

Too True.

But the 1000 didn't quite fall apart, some just were assembled a bit quickly it seems. Since there is an easy fix with the screws, it isn't a big deal. If everyone had to wedge something under it to make it sit right, then there is a problem.

I must admit, I'm a bit of a consumer rights fiend, so I believe that after paying hundreds on a piece of gear, I would expect the quality control to be enforced strictly. Same goes for bugs and missing features - if I bought a new car and the headlights kept flickering, the bonnet was lop-sided and the air bag 'was coming in a future release' even though it was advertised in the specs when I bought it, I'd take it straight back to the showroom and demand my money back. But somehow, we are very forgiving when it comes to music equipment or computer software

stop calling it professional

Nice

"its enough to expect a product with defect free manufacturing."

I little wobble that takes 2 minutes to fix certainly does not qualify as a defect. Computers, cars, toasters, and kitchen tables are manufactured with real defects all the time and for some they actually can kill. It is quite a stretch to equate a little wobble in a MPC to rollover tire defects on SUV's.

"I mean d@mn if Akai is gonna build these things with sh!tty slave labour then they should lower the price or something and stop calling it professional."

They did. It is the cheapest MPC ever and I do not see the word `professional` outside of Akai's name on the official MPC1000 website. It has NOT been touted as a `pro` piece, just ask the MPC3000/60 forum people.

" those software bugs keep me away "

What are those specifically?

"why you keep coming to the 1k section if you seem to hate it so much"

Where have I said that I hate the MPC1000? I don't. I own it. I do however have something to say to idiot MPC1000 owners who stay stuff that obviously deter new owners (like the quote above). If the MPC1000 is not a commercial success, Akai is done. They will go away without further OS development and many MPC1000 owners will find themselves with a machine that will not get developed any further, thanks to their complaining (about something as non-important as little wobble and feel they are TOO IMPORTANT to stoop down and fix it themselves since they spent a whopping $900, but instead whine about it on a public forum.)

It is ironic that people spend more time complaining about a little wobble than about defective Zip drives. Sure a Zip drive is under $100, but what value can you place on the months of hard work that the drive just destroyed? That is something worthy to complain about. The drive can be replaced but not all the work. Many MPC1000 owners are not familiar with Zip drives, but just do a seach on the forums on it and then do a search on the Web about it.