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By Nito Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:31 am
Greeting fellow mpc groupies hehe

Does anyone know how to "reset" my mpc after I've made a seq on it?
I have a set up that comes on by default when I turn on the mpc, but let's say that I've started out with something and it's headed the wrong way and I want to reset it back to default (my default)...How do I do this?
I usually just turn the mpc off and then on again after a while. There's got to be a better way to do this.
I know I can go thru the whole list of deleting all the programs, seq and tracks, but isn't there a somewhat more clever way of doing this?

I'll appreciate a clever answer.

-Nito

By _Stilo_ Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:40 pm
Just Save Entire Memory to a new folder just after powering up your MPC. Then load this project every time you want to clear your memory, and you're set.

By Nito Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:36 pm
I used to think (just a minute ago) that I'm a pretty smart guy, until you proved me wrong hehe.

Thanks. It annoys me when these kind of thing has such a simple solution.

-Nito

By _Stilo_ Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:00 pm
Well, a function to just press a button to do that would come in handy indeed.
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By electric dragon Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:30 pm
I'm glad there's no button that does that. I'm sure it would be pressed by accidentg quite a lot and then we'd always be answering questions on how to turn that ish off!

By Nito Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:54 pm
I partly wish there was such a button, but to do it like Stilo said is probably better just to avoid such accidents as electric dragon mentioned.

It ought to be something like this shift button -> load/save -> reset to default -> "are you sure you want to reset to default?" -> Yes/No
That way you're unlikely to hit it by mistake, and you get the functionality of a reset button.
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By dgny Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:54 am
i dont know if this will help in your situation, but what i do is:
go to the trim menu and press open window on any sample and hit f2 (delete) then f3 (all)

then as i build my new sequences, i keep the names and just overwrite what was there prior

hope this helps

By Nito Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:51 pm
Sorry to bring this thread up front again, but I just wanted to say thank you for the advise. The "save the default" way to go was just what I needed. Now I don't need to reset the mpc by turning it of when I feel the need to start out fresh after something went sour....

Thanks