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By SimonInAustralia Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:34 pm
binchukka wrote:Problem solved!!! It was the weirdest of things: just by chance, while a seq was playing I went to the efx mode and switched the REVERB off, and now everything works!! Why is that??

I think that effects on the MPC500 use up voices/polyphony in some way. When you turned off the effects, it freed up voices, and stopped sounds cutting each other off.

Are you running the latest MPC500 OS, 1.3.1?

I think they improved the effects/polyphony situation with OS 1.3.