By filthy mack
Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:43 pm
i bought a mpc 2500 brand new out the box from guitar center in atlanta ga. and the f3 and f4 softkeys didn't work so i took it back and got another one. it worked fine so i expanded the memory to 128mb, added a hitachi 80 gig hard drive to it and the cd-m25 cdrw dvd rom drive, this is every option meaning it's fully blown. i also bought a 128mb compact flash card to match the memory. sounds awesome doesn't it!!!but "houston we have a problem!" the cd rom is not for data storage or cd burning, it will not do either of the two at this time (o.s. 1.0). it only reads from the cdrw dvd rom! be clear, it will not save data to the cdrw or record cds of your beats for you to play in your stereo. this really broke my f#@&!n' heart because that is why i bought the thing in the first place. i am on the road alot and i wanted a machine i could burn cds of the beats i was working on. i already had a mpc 2000xl with a 250mb zip and a external cdrom drive that i could read data from, so i sort of spun my tires on the take off so to speak. maybe in future o.s. versions they will have the know how to burn cds and save data to the cdrw dvd rom drive, i can only pray because i am out of about $2800 and i don't know if it all worth it because with the addition of the cd-m25 "cdrw" dvdrom drive it slows the performance of the 2500 considerably. like after you try to save something to the hard drive or flash rom the cd comes up in the "save to:" field. something about that makes the system start to hang up and delayed responses are asured, like hitting a mode button or main window button and it taking like three or four seconds or more for the function to take place. very very heart breaking to a avid mpc user. i still love the fact that a mpc 2500 with the 128mb expansion board has enough memory to hold four of my 32mb four drum programs that i made on my mpc 2000xl. that means i have four programs loaded in the mpc2000xl at once, one for drum 1, one for drum 2, one for drum 3, one for drum 4. each program containing 64 sounds. (4 x64=256). so the mpc 2500 can hold 24 different programs but only up to 128mb (4 of my 32mb mpc 2000xl 4 program 4 drum set up that i made). another quam i have with the mpc 2500 is the ability to tell what program goes to what track if you are loading a mpc 2000/2000xl midi 01 seq file. it will load the sequence but it does not know what program goes with what track, you have to figure that outr for yourself and it is a **** and might make you throw up!( oh all those save all programs and save all songs and seqs files do not read from the 2000/2000xl to the mpc 2500 i had to resave all my pragrams + sounds, and seqs, and songs one by one to a unpartitioned zip disk so i could load them in to a computer and fly them to a compact flash drive. it was mid-evil torture for modern-day times.i never got finished because it is so time consuming). if they make a o.s. update solving these few problems i would say it is worth it but for now the cd-m25 is not what you want in your 2500. i want them to fix the problems with the cdrw dvd rom right god damn now!!! i want to burn cds with this cdrw because that is what a cdrw does right, or at least save data to the cdrw which it does neither. i never posted anything in my life but i had to say something about this, shiiiiit i had to sell "reg" for "mid" to get this f#!@!n' thing and it ain't worth the hassle i'm going through now with everybody calling me back and that's real talk!
