Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
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By Galik-C Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:48 pm
For whatever reason, I was switching back and forth between Sequences 1, 2, and 3, and Sequence 3 froze up. SYSTEM ERROR !! flashed across the screen. Play or Play/Start didn't work. If I hit play and then scrolled back to 1 or 2, they started playing, and then it was ok. I tried to delete the sequence in Seq. Edit, and I got SYSTEM ERROR!! again. So now, I have to skip over that Sequence in this program, and go 1,2,4 and so on. I was going to download the new OS (I have 1.12), but I wanted to make sure that it wasn't completely messed up before I made any more changes. A little help please??

By Emilie Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:29 pm
Try to record a new sequence to track 3. I have this error all the time, if you record something new on the track it often fixes it!
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By Galik-C Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:57 am
I've already tried that. I can't even touch that sequence. It's weird.
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By noramoss Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:37 pm
Same shiznit happened to me. I had turned a SONG into a sequence, and when I went to the window to make the SEQUENCE END instead of REPEAT it brought up that SYSTEM ERROR and I COULDN'T GET OUT OF IT. I HAD TO TURN MY MACHINE OFF then BACK ON in order to get it to stop

Galik-C wrote:For whatever reason, I was switching back and forth between Sequences 1, 2, and 3, and Sequence 3 froze up. SYSTEM ERROR !! flashed across the screen. Play or Play/Start didn't work. If I hit play and then scrolled back to 1 or 2, they started playing, and then it was ok. I tried to delete the sequence in Seq. Edit, and I got SYSTEM ERROR!! again. So now, I have to skip over that Sequence in this program, and go 1,2,4 and so on. I was going to download the new OS (I have 1.12), but I wanted to make sure that it wasn't completely messed up before I made any more changes. A little help please??
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By Galik-C Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:36 pm
the thing with SONG mode that I can't understand - if you had like 7 or 8 sequences in regular SEQ. mode, and you played them back-to-back, they flow right into each other. But, when you put them into song mode (they're all in the same BPM by the way), there might be a slight delay in between, and then you have to go and tweak each sequence just to make them fit together better. Is that normal?