Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
Byyazz Fri Jul 30, 2004 10:36 am
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!


When i try to load my new song i can´t load it. "Bad file format 405" is the messeage i get. I can load any ither song but not this one.

what to do??

/Danijel
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By ikke Fri Jul 30, 2004 12:53 pm
Im affraid nothing can be done..
Its either a bad harddrive or a bad wav file.
Try to load the song + samples and replace the faulty programs. Thats what I did but I guess you havnt backed up your samples?

Good luck.
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By ikke Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:00 pm
Ow! Wait up..
It s possible your samples have too many characters (name wise). Try to rename them with less characters.
When a program loads samples it only recognize the first 20 (?) characters. So a name with 24 characters ending with 001. Next one will end with 002 and so on. Program only recognize the first characters, so they will be all the same.
Try to load the program without the samples. Load the samples from the program afterwards, rename them (to a shorter name), then map them again in the program. Save your program.
See what happens.

Wich OS are you using? Akai said that the updated OS fixes this, but it doesnt.. Maybe 1.51c does.. Dunno, I still have 1.51t (And Im waiting for 1.60)

Again, good luck!
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By ikke Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:02 pm
Btw, Welcom to MPC-froums. :lol:

Byyazz Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:55 pm
Tanks for all replays.

this is strange because i can´t even load the song. I get the same error code.

So somtething must have happen last time i save the song.

By bleepfreak Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:13 am
Hi,

Was the sequencer running while you were trying to load that specific song? The MPC cannot load wav files and sequence/song files when the sequencer is running. Make sure you stop the sequencer before you press DO IT in load mode.

If this was not the case, you might have saved it during playback. In the OS 1.51 release version, it is best not to save your sequences / songs while playing because it could create invalid midi files. In 1.6 sequence save will be prohibited during sequence playback. This is already implemented from beta 1.51w.

Cheers!