Copped a 4000 :)

After a long time without a MPC I finally got myself a 4000...
I haven't experienced any of the bugs people talk about, and i'm running 1.51 - is there any real benefits by upgrading to the most recent OS?
Something I think is strange, is when i'm editing/trimming a sample in the trim window... sometimes I can't trim as small as i would like. From time to time it limits the amount i can trim.
Example...
If i have a 4 bar loop, it might allow me to trim it to 3 bars, but can't trim to 2 bars.
I've been using regions to get around it. but it seems strange. Especially since it's not every time.


By the way. Back in the days I had a 2kxl, as far as i remember it had a quick trim function where I could use the note variation slider to trim fast. Is there a similar function on the 4k? couldn't find it anywhere in the manual - which is very basic.
It also seems that the jog wheel scrools through a sample fairly fast going forward... but is slow as hell when going backwards in a sample.

DarkWing wrote:After a long time without a MPC I finally got myself a 4000...
I haven't experienced any of the bugs people talk about, and i'm running 1.51 - is there any real benefits by upgrading to the most recent OS?

No, there's no benefit at all from spending the entire 3 minutes and 30 seconds it would take
to download the latest OS from Akai's site and send it down the USB cable to your MPC.

Akai may have spending hundreds of manhours and spent £££1000's developing these
OS updates, but they just did it for a laugh, really, and simply went through the code
highlighting things with the mouse and pressing "DELETE!" whilst cackling wildly,
and in fact some of those manhours were just spent writing new bugs,
cos they thought it would be a funny practical joke.

In fact, if I were you, I'd try and find an ever earlier version of the OS that the one you
currently have, and install that, as it's probably even better and will give a "retro" sound to your beats.

feline1 wrote:

DarkWing wrote:After a long time without a MPC I finally got myself a 4000...
I haven't experienced any of the bugs people talk about, and i'm running 1.51 - is there any real benefits by upgrading to the most recent OS?

No, there's no benefit at all from spending the entire 3 minutes and 30 seconds it would take
to download the latest OS from Akai's site and send it down the USB cable to your MPC.

Akai may have spending hundreds of manhours and spent £££1000's developing these
OS updates, but they just did it for a laugh, really, and simply went through the code
highlighting things with the mouse and pressing "DELETE!" whilst cackling wildly,
and in fact some of those manhours were just spent writing new bugs,
cos they thought it would be a funny practical joke.

In fact, if I were you, I'd try and find an ever earlier version of the OS that the one you
currently have, and install that, as it's probably even better and will give a "retro" sound to your beats.

ok, someone's mad today...
Sometimes, newer versions, of a certain piece of software or OS, gives new and in some cases worse errors...
I didn't recieve a USB cable with the MPC, so i guess my questions was if the newer OS is a must have or if I should go with the "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

well why don't you read the release notes/reference manual addendums for the OS's, then you'll see what was in them, hmmmm?

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Any way, good purchase. Welcome aboard!

Welcome to your life!