1k jjos 3.12 Tap Tempo Problem

I posted this yesterday and woke up excited to see if I got any responses, and somehow my account got deleted or something. Maybe it's because I'm asking for help before I put anything productive up? My name is EnstroMentals, and I've been recording hip hop vocals going on 10 years now. I never made instrumentals until recently when I went into a local pawn shop and they had a 1k listed for 200 bucks. I offered 150, we haggled to 170, and I've been in love ever since. 1 or 2 of the pads are dying but nothing too bad. I upgraded the ram, and since I got the machine late summer have acquired quite the vinyl collection. I like to use the tap tempo for things like the high hats, and it was working just perfectly, but this is my problem....

I'm pretty new to this, and excuse me if this is a new guy problem, or if I missed a thread on this subject, but my tap tempo used to work perfectly fine, and now when I hold the tap tempo down and press the pad I want to trigger in say 1/8 time or 1/16, instead of keeping a steady da da da da rhythm like it used to it double hits like dada dada dada, and instead of the 1/8(3) and 1/16(3) being triplets it's just the regular da da da da patern. I hope this made some sense and that some one can help me out. If a better or different explanation is needed I'll try. Thanks for checkin me out.

Hello,

From what you are describing it does the contrary of the normal behavior.
You should do a test and try different swing settings when you're in 1/18, 1/16 or 1/32.

1 or 2 of the pads are dying but nothing too bad

I think you'd better remove the front pannel and have a look inside the MPC. There are tutorials on Youtube.

I actually have opened it up before. When I found the dying pads, I opened them up and used electrical tape to tape the little sensor squares in place. And it's not exactly the opposite, because the 1/8 and 1/16 aren't tripplets it's just baba baba baba....... While typing this I went to the timing correct screen and changed it to off, and it seems to have remedied my problem... thanks for the advice on the swing, and sorry about asking such a silly simple question I suppose.

Haha there are no silly questions, just silly answers

If you have weird behavior you can press the ERASE KEY at the start up. That sometime helps.
Otherwise you can upgrade to paying JJ OS.

PEace

guys you don't know how much you helped me...i'm fightin this tap tempo problem for such a time and i almost stop playin with the mpc for that reason...i didn't know that time correct can bring so big probs (yeah i'm noob)
thank god you faced the same prob and you found the solution on your own...

i just registered to say thanks for the help you didn't know you gave me...