MPC 1000 sucks or the one I bought is just a LEMON!

Well, that's it, I've had it with my MPC1000. Either I bought a LEMON or Akai just pumped out a very sh*tty product altogether. I've had problems with it from day one, from crashing to freezing repeatedly to lately, my MPC1000 deciding to spontaneously erase huge chunks of my work. A couple of times I saved a sequence or even just a sound to my memory card and when I made some edits and saved it again, it didn't ask me to replace the already existing one, instead it created a double! Of course this makes no sense so when I worked on the sound again and tried to save it, "DIRECTORY ERROR"!!! I'm like, ok, it happens I guess, whatever... but no, it's not over, I open my files... nothing but f*cked up jibberish, hours of work, GONE!!! I've had an MPC2000Xl before this, I know what I'm doing, it's not supposed to create doubles and cause itself to crash! Anyways, buyer beware. I'm bringing this piece of sh*t back to the store and I'm no longer dealing with a company that doesn't even have the competency or decency to respond to its customers.

Former MPC user

DAMN playa sorry to hear that I LOVE my 1k! No Probz maybe u did get a faulty one! Exchange it for another one and see if u have the same prob.

you might really have a lemon tho

when you get an error on load, try loading it again until it doesnt come up with an error. that works sometimes

that's too bad man - there's a conspirecy against you and only you - I love my 1000 - never had a crash (USB crashed my computer though) or freeze (I use to all the time with the 2000xl) - I thought GOD answered my prayers when he gave the engineers at Akai the insight to build this little bad boy - I guess he didn't answer yours -

Try updating the operating system -

what OS you got installed?

the latest is 1.03

~The new OS for the 1k

http://www.akaipro.co.jp/jp/datalib/dow ... 1kv103.zip


~Updatin OS instructions for the 1k

http://www.akaipro.com/int/download/mpc1k_update.zip


~Free sounds for the 1k

http://www.akaipro.com/int/mpc1k/sounds.html


$Try that out spacecowdude and see if that solves the problem! Let us kno what happens playa!

I feel your pain , I was feeling the options on the 1000 with the usb thing and flash card .Actually I traded in my trusty 2000 studio plus for the 1000
thinking yeah this is the sH!t and was so hurt by that sh1t crashing on me
the First day . So I went to guitar center to get my 2000 back! can you believe they sold that sh!t the same day for $1400.00 aint that some sh!t ? . So i had to kick out a a extra 600.00 and get the 2000xl which is better to me than the 2000 ,so in a way I just upgraded my 2000 to a xL so everything worked out for the better . One thing I noticed that the 1000 makes you do if you want to change
a program sound bank is to stop your flow and insert a program change, so lets say if you just want to flip to different program sound banks you have to stop your groove everytime you chose a bank from 0 -127 or 1 -128.
that sh!t is counterproductive to me . I like the 2000xl cause after I bang a drum pattern ,I swith to midi channel 1a or 1b choose a sound bank from my motif es or my proteus sound module without ever having to stop my sequence from playing now that's production!!!

I feel your pain , I was feeling the options on the 1000 with the usb thing and flash card .Actually I traded in my trusty 2000 studio plus for the 1000
thinking yeah this is the sH!t and was so hurt by that sh1t crashing on me
the First day . So I went to guitar center to get my 2000 back! can you believe they sold that sh!t the same day for $1400.00 aint that some sh!t ? . So i had to kick out a a extra 600.00 and get the 2000xl which is better to me than the 2000 ,so in a way I just upgraded my 2000 to a xL so everything worked out for the better . One thing I noticed that the 1000 makes you do if you want to change
a program sound bank is to stop your flow and insert a program change, so lets say if you just want to flip to different program sound banks you have to stop your groove everytime you chose a bank from 0 -127 or 1 -128.
that sh!t is counterproductive to me . I like the 2000xl cause after I bang a drum pattern ,I switch to midi channel 1a or 1b choose a sound bank from my motif es or my proteus sound module without ever having to stop my sequence from playing now that's production!!!

i luv my mpc1k

never had a problem with minez

meseratibeats wrote:I feel your pain...One thing I noticed that the 1000 makes you do if you want to change
a program sound bank is to stop your flow and insert a program change...that sh!t is counterproductive to me

Your sound module must be in your neighbors house down the street - I usually just reach over about a foot and turn the knobs on my sound module till I find the sounds I'm looking for (while the sequencer is still playing) - But what ever works for you - Like I said before, The MPC1000 is probably one of the best pieces of gear Akai has ever made!!!

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Your sound module must be in your neighbors house down the street - I usually just reach over about a foot and turn the knobs on my sound module till I find the sounds I'm looking for (while the sequencer is still playing) - But what ever works for you - Like I said before, The MPC1000 is probably one of the best pieces of gear Akai has ever made!!!
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I'm not talking about to preview a sound I'm talking to actually record the midi sequence with a different program bank #

Sure anybody can do that, what good is having the mpc
as the main sequencer slash midi controller to change the
sound banks? . Dont you know anything ? If you make lets
say a sequence using 12 midi programs each having different
sounds= 1a grand piano bank 12/ strings 2a bank 78/ bassline
3a bank 101/ gtrs 4a bank 96/ melody 5a bank 67/ drums 1b
bank 10 and etc. all those sounds have different sound bank
numbers which you can change with the data wheel on the
mpc2000xl . I can create an entire sequence without my hands
ever leaving the mpc or stopping my sequence with the 2000xl.
I dont have to touch none of my outboard gear either my motif
or my sound module to go from one sound to another that I want
record.
I'm not just talking about midi channels, You do know the
difference between a midi channel and a program bank don't you?
Check it !!! I'm using my sound module in a multi timbral set up
with my motif es 6.
I can go from start to finish flipping from different midi channels
and program bank sounds without ever stopping my main groove.
I don't have to do the program insert that 1000 users have to do.
I don't know what kind of producer you are ?
But when I'm feeling a certain groove and then have to stop
my sequence from playing, Then go into windows to select a
sound from one of the 12 x 128 banks of sounds that my
sound module has, It can be tedious and boring .It's like riding
the train with your walkman bumping some hot exclusives and
your batteries go dead,.and the korean man that sells batteries
aint on the train today .
The way I got my studio setup I can dial any sound from either
my motif or the proteus with the data wheel.

I create my own music not music created by others .

The only thing in my neibhors house is some one playing some
one else's records looking for samples trying to be Kanye,
Primo or somesH!t waiting to get sued by that 70 year old man
who got paid 200 dollars to record the song, and now he
want's half of that platinum plaque

Hey whatever works for you - the 1000 works just fine for me