hitting two pads at the same time.

Today I tried setting up a program on bank A with drums and sample chops in hopes to practice playing samples and drums together live without anything sequenced. I noticed that when you hit two pads at once one seems to mute the other if it's on the same program even when on poly. I've tried using both jj os as well as the akai os and it's the same thing. I've also noticed that in order to layer on the 2500 you often have to have the sounds you want to layer on separate programs or it will again mute other pads that are used in the sequence when you hit the new pad you wanna use. Don't remember this ever being an issue with the 2000xl. Anyone have the same issues or is something up with my machine? Thanks.

same issues... but maybe it's a big deal because you came from the 2000?

i haven't spent a significant amount of time on a 2000/xl so duplicating the programs/doubling or tripling up on samples ain't a big thing to me... but most of the time you can get around this using simult for the sounds you want to trigger at the same time. for samples i'm one shots in mono all day and my beats often have 2 or 3 of the same programs for layering and accents... in addition to the some of the same sounds being triggered from midi.

just gotta figure out which method works best for you (duping pgms/using simult) and you'll be on your way.

Well I can work around it for making beats of course, the problem lies in its live usage. If you've seen the recent exile videos where he's playing his mpc, this bug makes it pretty much impossible to do that kind of thing on a 2500 due to random sounds being muted when you're playing. I kinda upgraded to the 2500 because I thought I'd be able to play it live like I did my XL and it has quadruple the memory capacity. I'm gonna try it using simult thing and working around it, but seems kinda bogus when the old one could do it.

you're probably just maxing your polyphony