MPC1000 RAM and CF card Recommendations

do a search, this was brought up before.

the mpc 1000 uses a FAT16 file format system. FAT16 can only support up to 2GB

...wow...that's right, I guess I've been a mac user for so long that I forgot about the limitations of the FAT file system....I totally forgot about that...that's cool, now I have a way better CF for my digital camera....

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in the infamous words of Penfold...............


BUMP

I don't understand how anyone could get confused in this thread at all, I just got my MPC, checked on Ebuyer, picked up the Kingston RAM, piece of piss to install and your away. I don't think you could really make it any clearer.

Definition wrote:I don't understand how anyone could get confused in this thread at all, I just got my MPC, checked on Ebuyer, picked up the Kingston RAM, piece of piss to install and your away. I don't think you could really make it any clearer.

thank you and i'm sure penfold thanks you. but as you read (if you did read the entire thread) there are those of us forum-ers who are a bit challenged. it would help if you can spread your understanding of this thread to all you know.

sparq wrote:

Definition wrote:I don't understand how anyone could get confused in this thread at all, I just got my MPC, checked on Ebuyer, picked up the Kingston RAM, piece of piss to install and your away. I don't think you could really make it any clearer.

thank you and i'm sure penfold thanks you. but as you read (if you did read the entire thread) there are those of us forum-ers who are a bit challenged. it would help if you can spread your understanding of this thread to all you know.

"... there are those of us forum-ers who are a bit challenged."
HAHAHAHAHA! ya damn skippy!!! bloody imbercils!! and i do thank you also..

i got the viking 1 gb cf card that was on sale from buy.com last week (still on sale i think)

this thing is kinda messed up

half the time the sequences load all screwed up, lots of clicks at the end of samples

when i eject it from the card reader i have hooked up to my mac, most of the time i get a "Device Removal..." error (usually happens if you dont unmount the disk/card first, which of course i did). the other 2 cards i have work fine, and continue to work fine

gonna return it tomorrow. anyone get one and have it work correctly???

sorry, i can't help you. i've never used viking. was the card properly formatted? (FAT file format)? did you format it in the MAC or MPC? if you tried this, then i would say take it back.

as far as your samples clicking, it sounds like they need to be re sampled and trimmed the right way.

sparq wrote:
sorry, i can't help you. i've never used viking. was the card properly formatted? (FAT file format)?

did you format it in the MAC or MPC? if you tried this, then i would say take it back.



yeah, i formatted it in the mpc about 5 times. basically every time something would load up corrupt i would reformat the card and try again. i did that maybe 5 or 10 times before just saying damn this card is ****

ever load up a project, go to a sequence's step edit window and see all kinds of nonsense like question marks and lots of dashes? that's what happens when you get a file load gone wrong




as far as your samples clicking, it sounds like they need to be re sampled and trimmed the right way.

these were clean samples that i had just trimmed in Peak, exported as a 16 bit wav and put on the cf card. loaded it into the mpc, and boom there's that blip that was supposed to be fixed in os1.06 or 1.07 (i forget which one it was)

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I have just bought an MPC1000 and I'm looking to get some extra ram. On ebay there are a lot of 256mb 144pin SODIMMs advertised but they don't mention the CL3 thing. Can I assume that most of them will be CL3?

Thanks

i finally found the memory up here in toronto, but they have two types:

pc133 144pin 256mb sodimm - 8 chips

and

pc133 144pin 256mb sodimm - 16 chips


the 16 chips is $40 more and costs $150 canadian(which is way too much)

any info on 16 chips or 8 chips

To allow ones mpc to hold more sample time, and or more samples. 24min in mono, and 12 mins in stereo i believe.

for the people who's ram works, do yall have 8 chips or 16 chips for yor ram????

colonyrecords wrote:for the people who's ram works, do yall have 8 chips or 16 chips for yor ram????

Hi,

I'm not sure myself, I'm still waiting to buy mine, but I think you're looking for 4 chips on each side.

40Immortal wrote:

colonyrecords wrote:for the people who's ram works, do yall have 8 chips or 16 chips for yor ram????

Hi,

I'm not sure myself, I'm still waiting to buy mine, but I think you're looking for 4 chips on each side.

is 4 chips on each side the same as 8 chips, i guess right???

colonyrecords wrote:

40Immortal wrote:

colonyrecords wrote:for the people who's ram works, do yall have 8 chips or 16 chips for yor ram????

Hi,

I'm not sure myself, I'm still waiting to buy mine, but I think you're looking for 4 chips on each side.

is 4 chips on each side the same as 8 chips, i guess right???

Hi,

In the pictures I have seen, they have 4 ram chips on each side, so yes it looks like we need 8 chips. Can anyone confirm?

Also, a lot of memory modules say "Built using a 16x16 chipset". If I just get a PC133 144 Pin CL3 SODIMM 256mb, I should be ok, and wouldn't need to worry about the 16x16 chipset etc?

Thanks