why cant i hear anything?

Ok i just bought a used 2000xl. Before i bought it, i checked everything out and everything was in great working condition. Now that i'm home, I plugged in the power cord and phono output into my headphones and nothing. I tapped on the pads and im hearing nothing at all. Is there a reset button/option on this thing. Im guessing that the previous owner had it on a certain setting.

any ideas?

...please tell me you got sounds loaded up.

The Master Volume knob is the only thing on the mpc that would affect what you hear in the headphone output.
Do you hear anything when running a signal into the mpc's Record inputs while in sample mode?

How do check to see if there is sound loaded up into it? When i was messing with the MPC at this guys house, he had an SCSI interface thingy plugged in on the back of the MPC. Was that hardware suppose to come with the MPC?

i was reading up on the instruction manual and it mentioned this...

"In order to play any sounds after turning the power on, you must load them in from the CD or external device connected to the rear panel SCSI interface."

Im starting to become real irritated and i hope i dont have to spend additional $$$ to get this thing started.

If there isnt any data uploaded into my MPC, is there a way i can obtain all of the original sample, sounds, or whatever its called back into the MPC? In the back of the instruction manual, the contents said it came with a "sound library disc". The MPC i purchased didn't come with one.

Alright man, I'll take this from the top... The MPC is a sampler. It has no 'onboard' sounds that you can simply play as soon as you turn the unit on. You need to load the sounds yourself, or if you don't have any sounds on disk, you need to sample them.
The guy had an external drive that he loaded his samples from. That drive wasn't meant to come with the MPC unless he said he'd include it in the deal.

Your mpc should have an internal drive of some sort (it will most likely be a floppy or zip drive) that you can save/load sound to/from. Does it have a drive in there?

When you buy an new MPC, Akai include a cd-rom with sampled drums etc. This isn't really important. What you need to figure out is how to sample your own sounds into the mpc and save them onto whatever type of media (drive) you have in your MPC. If you have a zip drive, you need to get a zip disk. If you have a floppy drive you need some floppy disks to save to. IF, on the off chance, the mpc doesn't have a drive, you need to tell the dude you bought it off that he's a wanker (unless he tolled you that it didn't have an internal drive) and then buy yourself a drive to use. This can be floppy, zip, a multi card reader, or even a hard drive.
Its unlikley that you'll need to do this because the mpc probably has a drive installed, and you should know what it is before buying it.

The search function don't bite either.

Ok now i understand.

Damn, where do i begin as far as sounds and sampler? This is pretty damn frustrating but I at least have a new understandment. I've always thought that the MPC was like any other hardware (roland, korg, etc.) that came with preloaded sounds.

Does the cd library AKAI provide have a lot to offer? Or should i really look into purchasing sounds elsewhere?

The MPC came with a floppy drive. Now as far as drum beats etc, what is the standard size these files come in? If theyre over 1.4mb, then I think thats pretty damn wack considering I have a floppy drive that doesn't hold up much on their disks. However, the flash-rom in the MPC seems to look like it had been upgraded up into a 32mb.

One last question before i do use the search function, can i swap out the floppy disk drive and replace it with a zip?

Thanks btw for your help.

Why don't you sample sounds from cds/vinyl/mp3/tv whatever ?
If you want to replace your internal floppy, rather go for the internal CF reader than the Zipdrive, more storage capacity, no moving parts less prone to wear.

please tell me this lil boy aint serious........


you get my vote for herb of the month

jaem wrote:please tell me this lil boy aint serious........


you get my vote for herb of the month

Everybody was new to the MPC at one point in time..

Dj-FSC wrote:

jaem wrote:please tell me this lil boy aint serious........


you get my vote for herb of the month

Everybody was new to the MPC at one point in time..

Yes but when I buy a piece of gear I have at least the faintest idea of what I buy. You buy an MPC you know it is a sampling workstation no?

That's like buying a car and afterwards being surprised you have to put gas in it.
"When I went for the testdrive it was working fine and now it doesn't work anymore..."

Admit that you would find that kind of situation pretty dumb to say the least...

i was ready to pi$$ myself until he said he'd read the manual and thought it came with a sample library

but still nucklesandwich, you need to research the equipment hard before you splash money - or how will you know it's what you want/thought it was?

ps don't get frustrated, it's gonna be a long road ahead!

hey pt3r,

im in the process of doing the card reader that you have written up on another thread.

I ran into a problem, switching from a floppy, the card readers power connection is different in size. Is there a converter for this thing?

nvm, disregard that last post.

I went out into a local computer shop, picked up a couple of supplies, and started splitting wires.

Now it works like a charm. Thanks pt3r for the write-up.

pt3r wrote:

Dj-FSC wrote:

jaem wrote:please tell me this lil boy aint serious........


you get my vote for herb of the month

Everybody was new to the MPC at one point in time..

Yes but when I buy a piece of gear I have at least the faintest idea of what I buy. You buy an MPC you know it is a sampling workstation no?

That's like buying a car and afterwards being surprised you have to put gas in it.
"When I went for the testdrive it was working fine and now it doesn't work anymore..."

Admit that you would find that kind of situation pretty dumb to say the least...

lol.. yea your right man... i didn't look at it that way.... its a good thing to do some sort of research b4 u spend money on somethin like that..