Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
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By dablunt Wed May 17, 2006 8:31 am
Whay Hay! 1.2 - Thank fook.

I had my machine down at Digital Village who totally messed up fixing my 2500, but they gave me a new one to compensate for the feck up. So I have to say thanks to them because I slagged them off in another thread. Dun.

So I get home, wop the new 1.2 OS on and have a play. It seems to me that everything just seems more stable. Now I dunno if its de new machine or the new OS, but I'm liking it. A lot.

The new Grid Edit views are wkd, it helps to you to find which Pads are in use for muting if you are using it Live. It really has made me go back to this feature which was kinda gimiky to start with.

MTC / MMC works as well! Turned on Cubase, turned on MPC, set the MPCs MIDI sync options to be the Master. Pressed play on the MPC and cubase pops up saying - "You wanna change frame rate" - yep. And we are in control on the Cubase transport. All very kewl.

Chromatic Assign. Again, seems to do what it says on the tin - effectively. Although, like someone else posted it would have made more sense to put it on the 16 levels button - someone made a bit of a mistake there methinks.
By filthy mack Thu May 18, 2006 12:40 pm
jahrome wrote:
Red_Dragon wrote:
You still can't play 88 keys on this fukin think!


Not to skip around but early we discussed this problem. First I had this problem...now today I don't. I can record and playback all 88 notes from my master controller........

As far as the other problems...we may need to get better organized and dedicate one topic per thread...or not :lol:


jahrome can you still play all 88 notes or did it come and go like sometimes you can and sometimes you can't? I see on other threads some were saying they could get some of the higher notes to play but not the lower ones. this bug seems really weird because they clearly state that the issue has been fixed.
ByRed_Dragon Thu May 18, 2006 8:49 pm
I reinstalled the OS, plus checked to see if i had v1.2 and still no luck. Maybe it depends on the board, but i can only play 64 keys on this unit.