MPC 2500 Hard Drive Interference.

Easy MPC lovers.

Got an issue here. I'm hoping this can be resolved. If not, It's a major **** up from Akai.

My MPC has an 80gb HD installed and I've noticed a horrible, high pitched sound coming from the MPC, which is making me think that every recording I do will have this sound, making recording on the MPC totally useless.

I have linked up a couple of sound clips for you to listen to. The first is a beat. If you can't hear this high pitch sound through the beat, put a high pass filter on it. The second is the high pitched sound its self and the third sound, which has led me to believe that this is a HD issue is me pressing Mode, then Load and you can hear the HD boot up.

These recordings where recorded through my mixer into my DAW so there is no natural ambience at all. I've tried the same thing through the Headphone jack and I can still hear the interference.

https://soundcloud.com/oijackson/mpc-bu ... -mpc-issue

https://soundcloud.com/oijackson/mpc-buzz-no-beat

https://soundcloud.com/oijackson/mpc-bu ... at-hd-boot

Any help or advice with this would be greatly appreciated as if it cannot be sorted, I'm probably going to look into getting a 1000 as I've used those in the past and not had an issue like this with them.

did you try to simply remove the harddrive for a moment to check if the noise goes away? if it goes away with the hdd removed, than the hdd has something to do with it, if not then the problem must be elsewhere.
does that sound come thru the seperate outs 1-8 also?
on some of my older synths such a high pitched sound can come from either the power supply or from the inverters of the display, but on my mpc 2500 from the year 2006 i can not hear anything like it.

which os are you using? my observation on my mpc with a hitachi 80gb drive and the akai os up to the last one 1.24 is: if i start up the mpc the hdd will also spin up, but it only will spin down and go into sleep if i do load at least two seperate items from it. if i do not load anything or just something from the cf-card, then the hdd will spin forever making that normal spinning noise. only if i load two things one after the other, then the hdd will immediatly go to sleep after each loading.

peace, jo

run through selecta's list

if it still doesnt help

try plugging in mpc to another outlet, preferably grounded one using 3 prongs cable