Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
By bedouin Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:08 pm
Let's say I have a one shot 5 second sample on one pad and I accidently hit it off-time while playing around with it in sequence mode. Is it possible to make it stop playing? I read the manual from front to back but don't remember reading anything about this. Or let's say I stop a sequence while a one shot sample is still playing but want to make the sample stop so I can restart the sequence without hearing samples overlap? Any way to do this? It's real annoying.

I'm not talking about editing here, but just stopping a sample from playing while auditioning it in sequence mode. Hope I'm being clear enough.
By ONE Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:02 am
You can also stop a long sample from playing in a sequence. Set the long sample to the same mute group as a pad with no samples assigned to it. That Empty pad now becomes like a off switch for any other pad in the same mute group, and you can record that in your sequence.

The question that I have is...does the 500 have mute groups?
By brazeca Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:08 am
Bedouin: You can assign the pad with this sample to a mute group, then assign another pad to the same mute group (make sure there's a sample assigned to it and set the sample's volume to 0). When you screw up when playing live, just hit this "mute" pad and this will trigger the mute of the one shot, I guess. That's a workaround when you want to play along with a sequence and hitting stop will stop the sequence, which will screw up the song if it is being played live.