By mattlightbourn
Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:32 am
Hi,
I was having all sorts of problems with Mode/Seq_Edit on my MPC2500 which has 128MB RAM and XL screen. I'll go into the problems in a bit but thought the answer to my problems was upgrading to the latest version.
It upgraded by erasing ROM and then telling me it was completed and that I needed to switch off and back on to continue.
I did so and, now the startup screen shows and it says
MPC2500 (128MB Installed) and every 6 seconds shows a double border around the text and loops around forever without ever loading. Obviously, can't try to upgrade or downgrade again because I need to get into it in the first place to load a/the file again.
Hopefully someone may have some secret combination of keys to hold down to fix the problem. I was previously on version mpc2500_128xl110 which was a terrible version.
Problems I had.
1. Mode/Seq_Edit would neither allow me to copy BARS nor TRACKS since it threw up an error saying "Sequence does not exist!"
2. When I thought I was being clever, I made a song using a 4 bar sequence where I repeated it 16 times and thought I would click convert to basically create a new sequence that contained 64 BARS in there but, instead of working, it populated the SONG screen with 299 lines of an unnamed sequence, looked pixelated and then would tell me "System Error" when I tried to get back to the original sequence - meaning the only thing I could do was switch it off.
If I choose not to copy TRACKS, BARS or CONVERT song to sequence, it all works beautifully with exception to the following lacking features.
1. It has INST mode which I've been dying for for ages. Now that I have it, I assign sounds to different spans to cover all six octaves. I set the original key for each to ensure that C3 is actually C3. Now, some of my sounds are not completely in tune - since I have an app on my phone which shows me the tone it is playing and yet, there does not to be any way of altering the tuning of the sound other than PITCHING as a sound edit feature which ruins the nicest of pure sine waves. I want to adjust the tuning not the note that it is aligned to, how do you do this?
2. Appegiator - great idea but it is either UP, DOWN OR CONSTANT. No RANDOM or UP & DOWN, seems like a bit of a waste of time to me putting this in as a feature half baked.
I've used MPC's since 1993 when I got my MPC60MK1, then MK2, then 3000, now 2500, then the memory upgrade, then screen, then thick pads and orange skin but, without it able to work, I am without a creative outlet. Please help!
Thanks
Matt
I was having all sorts of problems with Mode/Seq_Edit on my MPC2500 which has 128MB RAM and XL screen. I'll go into the problems in a bit but thought the answer to my problems was upgrading to the latest version.
It upgraded by erasing ROM and then telling me it was completed and that I needed to switch off and back on to continue.
I did so and, now the startup screen shows and it says
MPC2500 (128MB Installed) and every 6 seconds shows a double border around the text and loops around forever without ever loading. Obviously, can't try to upgrade or downgrade again because I need to get into it in the first place to load a/the file again.
Hopefully someone may have some secret combination of keys to hold down to fix the problem. I was previously on version mpc2500_128xl110 which was a terrible version.
Problems I had.
1. Mode/Seq_Edit would neither allow me to copy BARS nor TRACKS since it threw up an error saying "Sequence does not exist!"
2. When I thought I was being clever, I made a song using a 4 bar sequence where I repeated it 16 times and thought I would click convert to basically create a new sequence that contained 64 BARS in there but, instead of working, it populated the SONG screen with 299 lines of an unnamed sequence, looked pixelated and then would tell me "System Error" when I tried to get back to the original sequence - meaning the only thing I could do was switch it off.
If I choose not to copy TRACKS, BARS or CONVERT song to sequence, it all works beautifully with exception to the following lacking features.
1. It has INST mode which I've been dying for for ages. Now that I have it, I assign sounds to different spans to cover all six octaves. I set the original key for each to ensure that C3 is actually C3. Now, some of my sounds are not completely in tune - since I have an app on my phone which shows me the tone it is playing and yet, there does not to be any way of altering the tuning of the sound other than PITCHING as a sound edit feature which ruins the nicest of pure sine waves. I want to adjust the tuning not the note that it is aligned to, how do you do this?
2. Appegiator - great idea but it is either UP, DOWN OR CONSTANT. No RANDOM or UP & DOWN, seems like a bit of a waste of time to me putting this in as a feature half baked.
I've used MPC's since 1993 when I got my MPC60MK1, then MK2, then 3000, now 2500, then the memory upgrade, then screen, then thick pads and orange skin but, without it able to work, I am without a creative outlet. Please help!
Thanks
Matt
