the nastiest sound ever!

I work at a recording studio and I've been put in charge of getting to know the mpc 4000 inside and out, but i've run into a few VERY annoying problems. The major one is sometimes when I am playing a sample, it will cut out and give this very high pitch sound. How do I fix this?

thanks

check yer loop points in the sample window, thats the newbie answer.
change the sample typ to NO LOOP or ONE SHOT....
not sure though....
pez.

Also go to pad assignment, and put it on chromatic,,, in some programs there are weird pitch changes among samples

sup,

if ya loop points are to tight she squeels like a pig':lol:'

thanks, the loop points were off.

Now for my next problem. I've set my pads with the drums and samples I want and I've made a sequence. How do I save them both? I followed the instructions in the manual and then when I turned on the machine all the pads weren't saved and the sequence was really messed up. How do you properly save??

And does anyone else find the manual to be very vague at times??

The manual aint to good, its usable but not very good, you will run into problems when youve readthe manual.

Are you familiar with the SAVE ALL, funtion??? When you use that, youll save all data in the mpc4k.

many times over cat : the manual is shite.

cats will bark at ya like they've been thumbing through it every waking hour.

truth of the matter is it makes complete sense after you've had a few runs on the machine.

this is not to sound like "read the manual" check my posts and you'll see that for sure!

there's a killing to be made on a 12 page photo oriented quick-guide on this beast.

there's save all but i have a sequences folder, a program folder and a multi folder with references to a sample folder.

there's a few things you've gotta save unlike some synths/samplers. keep at it!

Simplest and best way..

Create a Folder for the particular project and Name it!

As you create your work consistently save to that folder using the "save entire memory" function.

Now be sure before you save that the folder you created (or are planning on saving too) is still the folder that is currently selected (sometimes i've noticed that the machine will curiously default to the root directory)

As you continue to work on your project over hours..days...weeks..., get in the habit of making a sub-folder in your original folder and save entire memory to the sub folder (named of course by date, or whatever)

So what you end up with is a main folder as you started, and then a variety of sub-folder as your work progresses. All of your original sequences and samples are archived this way, so you can always go back to an old version, or pull a sample or sequence back into play that you maybe ditched.

Lets face it, you've got loads of room on that HD so use it ---

Also, back up to an external device often!!! I learned the hard way -

Bop