Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
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By DPM Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:29 am
i had a beat going and saved the program and sequences, just like i always do. i had eq'd my shit and had it sounding dope as hell! but, when i turned back on the other day, all the settings were lost and set back normal. (ie EQ settings, sample volume, etc.). I'm working on OS 1.30, so I was just wondering if this is a bug with 1.30? I'm going to upgrade to OS 1.31 tonight and try it then. If I load the SAME program and sequence that I was working with 1.30 and load them up in 1.31 after i upgrade, will the settings I had before come back? Or will I still have to redo everything?
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By diggin24seven Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:31 am
some cat recently told me to save 'project' and that seems to save everything. if you saved just the sequence and program then that's your problem right there cuz the seqeuence and program have no information on effects.
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By phono Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:30 am
diggin24seven wrote:some cat recently told me to save 'project' and that seems to save everything. if you saved just the sequence and program then that's your problem right there cuz the seqeuence and program have no information on effects.


theres a caveat with that, with a big song you cant load project, you have to load folder since load project doesnt load all the samples (thats a bug) but if you get into the habit of loading folder its not really a big deal. If you look at the project file its just a text file with sample names anyway.
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By diggin24seven Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:01 pm
phono wrote:
diggin24seven wrote:some cat recently told me to save 'project' and that seems to save everything. if you saved just the sequence and program then that's your problem right there cuz the seqeuence and program have no information on effects.


theres a caveat with that, with a big song you cant load project, you have to load folder since load project doesnt load all the samples (thats a bug) but if you get into the habit of loading folder its not really a big deal. If you look at the project file its just a text file with sample names anyway.


so when is a song too big to where u can't load as a project?

duz that mean i can still save 'project' but i just have to load 'folder' each time?
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By phono Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:26 pm
diggin24seven wrote:
phono wrote:
diggin24seven wrote:some cat recently told me to save 'project' and that seems to save everything. if you saved just the sequence and program then that's your problem right there cuz the seqeuence and program have no information on effects.


theres a caveat with that, with a big song you cant load project, you have to load folder since load project doesnt load all the samples (thats a bug) but if you get into the habit of loading folder its not really a big deal. If you look at the project file its just a text file with sample names anyway.


so when is a song too big to where u can't load as a project?

duz that mean i can still save 'project' but i just have to load 'folder' each time?


yep, works for me
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By DPM Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:37 am
I have saved my stuff recently just like I have always done. I always save my sequence and program individually, all in the same folder, btw. It didn't start messing up like this until I started using OS 1.30.
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By phono Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:10 am
DPM wrote:I have saved my stuff recently just like I have always done. I always save my sequence and program individually, all in the same folder, btw. It didn't start messing up like this until I started using OS 1.30.


update to 1.31