By Thirdlip
Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:39 pm
Hey y'all,
I've done many searches and not been able to find anyone with exactly these same problems, but if this has been addressed please forgive me. I had an MPC1000 with the 128MB RAM expansion on it for years and, besides the pads blowing out, never had too many problems with it. Then I got the JJ OS and loved the way it helped my work, but it also brought up some problems with freezing and crashing that I didn't have before. It also would frequently spit out this full-volume white noise from the main outputs only, and it wouldn't stop until I reset the power, losing any unsaved work.
I finally got an MPC2500, added the same RAM stick, got OS2XL, and was psyched to get back to work. Everything was smooth enough, but then the problems started in; that horrible constant full-volume white noise that won't turn off, drastic tempo changes with even the simplest patterns (a hat playing 16ths causes it to drag and then speed up to try to catch itself), notes freezing, notes being delayed, crashes during performance and attempts to save, and other smaller glitches. I'm doing no MIDI, made sure none of my sounds are using filters or anything too demanding; I can make a new sequence, put a kick on each measure, and a hat on each 16th (just to test it, not to write a hit), and then play it back and it starts messing up.
Like I said, I did use the same RAM from the MPC1000, but smarter people than myself have said that that shouldn't cause these problems and that it must be the OS. I'm happy to buy more RAM if that will fix this, but I wanted to check with your collected experience to see if there may be some other solution.
It's crazy, I've found one other post about the white noise thing here, and no one else had much to say to him about it, and the slowing down / speeding up thing seems to usually be cause by to much congestion / MIDI / filters, but I'm not doing any of that (of course, I will be once I solve this). I don't want to have to leave JJ, but some people have written that it's maybe just too packed and causes too many glitches. What do you think?
I've done many searches and not been able to find anyone with exactly these same problems, but if this has been addressed please forgive me. I had an MPC1000 with the 128MB RAM expansion on it for years and, besides the pads blowing out, never had too many problems with it. Then I got the JJ OS and loved the way it helped my work, but it also brought up some problems with freezing and crashing that I didn't have before. It also would frequently spit out this full-volume white noise from the main outputs only, and it wouldn't stop until I reset the power, losing any unsaved work.
I finally got an MPC2500, added the same RAM stick, got OS2XL, and was psyched to get back to work. Everything was smooth enough, but then the problems started in; that horrible constant full-volume white noise that won't turn off, drastic tempo changes with even the simplest patterns (a hat playing 16ths causes it to drag and then speed up to try to catch itself), notes freezing, notes being delayed, crashes during performance and attempts to save, and other smaller glitches. I'm doing no MIDI, made sure none of my sounds are using filters or anything too demanding; I can make a new sequence, put a kick on each measure, and a hat on each 16th (just to test it, not to write a hit), and then play it back and it starts messing up.
Like I said, I did use the same RAM from the MPC1000, but smarter people than myself have said that that shouldn't cause these problems and that it must be the OS. I'm happy to buy more RAM if that will fix this, but I wanted to check with your collected experience to see if there may be some other solution.
It's crazy, I've found one other post about the white noise thing here, and no one else had much to say to him about it, and the slowing down / speeding up thing seems to usually be cause by to much congestion / MIDI / filters, but I'm not doing any of that (of course, I will be once I solve this). I don't want to have to leave JJ, but some people have written that it's maybe just too packed and causes too many glitches. What do you think?
