chopping on my 500

I took out my 500 and took her apart and cleaned every part and vacuum'd all the nooks and crannies. Then I removed the Fat Pads and placed back the stock pads and viola! No more pads triggering other pads. Also, something weird. I think its where I stored the pads but the stock pads feel soft as the fat pads now. Had them in a shoebox in the closet for 3 years with temps at 76 to 100 F.

All my samples are still on there too

Ill-Green wrote:I took out my 500 and took her apart and cleaned every part and vacuum'd all the nooks and crannies. Then I removed the Fat Pads and placed back the stock pads and viola! No more pads triggering other pads. Also, something weird. I think its where I stored the pads but the stock pads feel soft as the fat pads now. Had them in a shoebox in the closet for 3 years with temps at 76 to 100 F.

All my samples are still on there too

i honestly think the reason they trigger other pads is cause the nipples fit to tight into the holes, im still gonna take mine appart and drill the holes out a lady's private parts hair bigger..someone should let mike at mpcstuff know about this, i dont have it happen too much anymore, but at first it happened a lot, or a pad would get stuck playing in trim mode, like i would let off the pad and it wouldnt let off, the sample would still play, pad 1 mainly, also some times when i hit pad 1 nothing would happen, this caused me to replace my seniors underneath only to find out they were fine.. glad ur 500 is better, u should let mike know, cause that is wack that dudes 40$ pads put you off of playing with ur 500...

Ill-Green wrote:I took out my 500 and took her apart and cleaned every part and vacuum'd all the nooks and crannies. Then I removed the Fat Pads and placed back the stock pads and viola! No more pads triggering other pads. Also, something weird. I think its where I stored the pads but the stock pads feel soft as the fat pads now. Had them in a shoebox in the closet for 3 years with temps at 76 to 100 F.

All my samples are still on there too

yo ill, one question, did u get the fat pads for the 500, or did you get the ones for the 1000 and cut the extra row off?? I got the ones for the 1000 cause i didnt want that mpcstuff logo on mine, i cut the extra row off, maybe he makes the 500 and the 1000 different now. i know before he started making pads for the 500s I was one of the first people to get black 1000 pads and cut off the extra row for my 500, and shits worked soooo nice, maybe he changed them a bit now that they are corx-less? '

I bought one of the first Fat pads for the 500 and it doesn't have a logo. They started putting on the logo when more people began buying them.

And I was thinking about putting corx on the stock pads since I still have a set sealed in its package. The spacing between the stock pads and the sensors are too far apart than the Fat pads. I didn't even used the corx and the spacing was fine on the Fats.

I was impressed on how the 500's workflow is like the MV's. That has a color screen but when you know your machines really well, most times you're not looking at the screen and thats where I'm at with the MV. So when I played with the 500, I was still in an MV mindset, and it translated really well over to the little MPC. Some minor obstacles but not anything to make me reread the manual.

That's what always brings me to love the 500. No matter how long I go without using it, when I come back to it the work flow all comes back to me, like riding a bike or something. My fingers just start flying around on it like its programmed in my brain.

ok, gonna smoke something and start taking my 500 apart to drill those holes out

I was thinking of clipping off the nipples and put a toothpick in all the holes to keep the pads down. I can feel a slight bubble with the Fat pads when try to squeeze them into the hole like the blob.

ok, so i did it, i pulled the thing appart pulled the metal plate out that holds the pads and seniors pulled the lil pcb off the back of it and drilled out the 6 holes with a 9/64 drill bit, i would recommend a bit a size smaller then the one i used, but the nipples just slide right in the holes perfect.. in trim mode pad 1 doesnt get stuck like it use to also it has real nice sensitivity with full level off.. be careful if you do this, spend the time and pull the bracket out before you drill. also test it before you get it put all the way together, lode up a program with some drums and make sure all the pads are working, i had trouble with mine, put it all the way together and pads 1-6 were not working, had to open it back up cause i didnt plug something in all the way..

Here's another method of chopping it may or may not be any faster, but likely just as quick.

1. Assign your loop/sample to a pad (likely best if you leave it set to one shot)

2. Enter the record screen mode (change record in/ to main)

3. Trigger the sample and you can record start and end points live as the sample plays
(essentially just resampling your outputs with a new start point for as many chops as you might like)

As long as your loop is the last thing you sampled in, the rest of your chops should be named accordingly and can be assigned to consecutive pads on the fly.

Just an alternative for some of you who may not like setting start and end points manually.

ralphyartis' wrote:Here's another method of chopping it may or may not be any faster, but likely just as quick.

1. Assign your loop/sample to a pad (likely best if you leave it set to one shot)

2. Enter the record screen mode (change record in/ to main)

3. Trigger the sample and you can record start and end points live as the sample plays
(essentially just resampling your outputs with a new start point for as many chops ias you might like)

As long as your loop is the last thing you sampled in, the rest of your chops should be named accordingly and can be assigned to consecutive pads on the fly.

Just an alternative for some of you who may not like setting start and end points manually.

I call that the Sp-404 method haven't used that method but totally know its there. IS that how u do it??

inflict3 wrote:

ralphyartis' wrote:Here's another method of chopping it may or may not be any faster, but likely just as quick.

1. Assign your loop/sample to a pad (likely best if you leave it set to one shot)

2. Enter the record screen mode (change record in/ to main)

3. Trigger the sample and you can record start and end points live as the sample plays
(essentially just resampling your outputs with a new start point for as many chops ias you might like)

As long as your loop is the last thing you sampled in, the rest of your chops should be named accordingly and can be assigned to consecutive pads on the fly.

Just an alternative for some of you who may not like setting start and end points manually.

I call that the Sp-404 method haven't used that method but totally know its there. IS that how u do it??

I've done it a few times, and recently tried your method recently and i like that work flow. But honestly I haven't been making music with chops to much on my 500. I've been more into using short loops from different sample sources( a variety of records) and blending them together. I have a folder of just loops and other bits i have recorded in advance, I save them for later use and I take advantage of the 500s unique ability to audition samples while playing a sequence, as well as the ability to play the pads while auditioning samples. I usually build programs with all kinds of samples that sound good together before I begin to sequence.

Yo Inflict!! Good looking out and going through all this and letting us know the info. I would definitely let you mod my 500 with confidence bro. The corkings under the stock do the trick.

It's funny, I remember DJ Shadow's method of chopping way back was just sampling each drum hit or note separately. He'd sample one hit, and then he'd sample the next, and so on. No actual chopping on the machine itself. Although he'd still have to trim each hit.

Ill-Green wrote:Yo Inflict!! Good looking out and going through all this and letting us know the info. I would definitely let you mod my 500 with confidence bro. The corkings under the stock do the trick.

no prob man..drilling the holes out really helped

Avene wrote:It's funny, I remember DJ Shadow's method of chopping way back was just sampling each drum hit or note separately. He'd sample one hit, and then he'd sample the next, and so on. No actual chopping on the machine itself. Although he'd still have to trim each hit.

ive thought about sampling each spot like that, kinda like the sp-404 method, but u still gotta trim up a lil, its just gotten so fast for me to sample the whole thing and use the copy and trim on the start points.. at the end all i do is look at the st point of the next sample, go to the end point of the sample before it, hold down the numeric key and type in the numbers then discard. some how it just flows nicely for me