Forum to discuss all matters relating to the MPC1000 and MPC2500 operating systems created by 'JJ' (all versions).
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By Neurone Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:38 pm
I was interested in JJOS for the multi-track operation.
Is it possible to import and play wavs bigger than 128mb ?

How reliable is the multitrack operation ?
Does it ever glitch or fail ?

Thanks
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By catfingers Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:30 am
The MPC can only work with RAM so you can only ever load/record samples up to 128MB. This is a limitation of the CPU/storage controller.

I haven't tried lots of audio tracks - but it should be reliable, they are just samples after all. Anyone?
By innovine Wed Sep 12, 2012 8:50 am
I've used a few in parallel without a problem. There is a limit in the totalamount you can have, I think 32 mono tracks. Once when I purged unused samples my audio track disappeared, but I have not seen that bug again and otherwiase the operation is glitch free,

Note that if you are recording directly into an audio track there will be a short silence inserted at the start. You can manually edit this away later if necessary. There is no punch in and punch out recording. There is no current way to 'split' or edit an audio track. You cannot copy, for example, bars 3 and 4 and easily place it at bars 5 and 7. I am not sure, but I think you cannot record a bar in the middle of the audio track, as the original will not play after your recording. You can think of the audio track as containing triggers on a bar, which play a long wav file. So on bar 1 you trigger a long wav file, and then on bar 32 you might trigger another, but if you record audio into bar 20 only, you get a new wav from 20 to 21, and there will be silence from 21 to 32 as the original wav does not resume...

Basically, audio tracks are ok if you want a long wav files which play from specific bars (like a verse wav, or a chorus wav) but you'll immediately run into limitations if you want to edit and do anything else with them, I just import the whole vocal stem from my computer and lay down beats alongside the audio track, and for that it works pretty well
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By Neurone Wed Sep 12, 2012 9:00 am
Thanks for the answers guys, I was interested in a 2500 with JJOS, but it looks like I'll need to look at the 5000 or maybe the Octatrack.

Thanks again
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By catfingers Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:35 am
Neurone wrote:Thanks for the answers guys, I was interested in a 2500 with JJOS, but it looks like I'll need to look at the 5000 or maybe the Octatrack.


yeah - that was one of the things I was hoping for on the octatrack but the 5000 (OS 2.0) looks like a much more mature device.

one cheap alternative for simple playback is a Roland SP sampler (404, 606 etc) these can stream from CF card. I scored an SP606 for very few $$$ - you can't do very much with a sample in the device - but it can playback huge chunks of audio from under a pad or from a MIDI note (plus the effects section is whacky good).
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By Neurone Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:08 am
I actually had a an SP404 when they first came out.
I just thought they were a bit flimsy.
Maybe I should look at the SP-404sx.

Mind you, my MPC-5000 is on it's way as we speak.