Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
By logic_user99 Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:52 pm
I would like to see the ability to alter pan position in the step editor. That, at the moment, is a real bug-bear for me - having to use three or four of the same sample, panned at different positions, isn't really cool.
By logic_user99 Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:34 pm
carbono wrote:I don't ask for much...Lol, but it would be great to, when in trim mode, have a pad that played the sample from the last 25%! Because when setting the trim end point in a long sample it takes too long to reach the end and ear if it's OK or not!


That'd be EXCELLENT!
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By robthom Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:50 pm
carbono wrote:I don't ask for much...Lol, but it would be great to, when in trim mode, have a pad that played the sample from the last 25%! Because when setting the trim end point in a long sample it takes too long to reach the end and ear if it's OK or not!


Try pad 11.
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By carbono Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:25 pm
robthom wrote:
carbono wrote:I don't ask for much...Lol, but it would be great to, when in trim mode, have a pad that played the sample from the last 25%! Because when setting the trim end point in a long sample it takes too long to reach the end and ear if it's OK or not!


Try pad 11.


@robthom I love you (in a musical way)! I guess I've tried that before but didn't know that, for that pad to work, the trim end point had to be selected (I thought that sholdn't matter,lol)!

Muhahaha, now excuse me, I got some samples to chop!!!
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By robthom Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:58 pm
Your right, you do have to select trim end first. I still get twisted up by that sometimes when I'm in a groove.

(I love you to ill-green, in a musical way ;) )
By Marshall Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:31 am
* 12-Level tuning following a dorian/aeolian/mixolydian mode instead of chromatic...... (would be easy to do and SO useful)

*Ability to use more than one octave in 12-level. Could be achieved using pad bank buttons ABCD.
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By inflict3 Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:38 am
the ability to export tracks as wavs
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By proppa Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:55 am
inflict3 wrote:the ability to export tracks as wavs


you can do this by bouncing internally, saving the resulting file(s), then taxi to computer via USB.
By Mr.T. Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:04 am
* direct track selection in track-mute screen. For example with "shift" + "PAD#" in track mute modus, you choose the current track, that would be selected after open main track site again (pressing "track" button).
would be helpful for live-performing :-)
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By proppa Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:42 pm
good people of the 500 universe, i know i sound like a broken record but for the love of OS Updates PLEASE sample me when i say:

add. your. points. to. the. ongoing. LIST.

keep that sucker COMPILED.

the random in-the-thread entries are great but Do you really expect anyone from Akai to comb through the thread to locate the (often great) requests here?

keep the Entire List going gents (and gentettes if so) so that the last version of it is the most complete version.

Please.
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By Ill-Green Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:10 am
robthom wrote:Your right, you do have to select trim end first. I still get twisted up by that sometimes when I'm in a groove.

(I love you to ill-green, in a musical way ;) )

Well just close your legs and don't look at me. :lol:








jk man. :lol:
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By proppa Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:29 pm
yes great reference R

this thread should definitely be a sticky

unless i'm mistaken that 5000 thread is splintered in a similar way to our 500 thread as it progresses though.

maybe the solution is two threads: one to casually pitch requests / talk things over and another (sticky) that is the 'actual list' which serious users will (hopefully) keep updated with their Official Requests.

again: the goal is to have one Very Easy To Find And Read want list.