By Levulz2it
Sat May 02, 2020 12:52 pm
Got my 500 couple days ago, just figuring everything out lol. It has 128mb ram which has a brownish color board (I didn't take the ram out) which I think the akai is red correct? So it has aftermarket ram without a visible brand. I noticed the OS was version 1.3 so I updated to 1.31. It didn't come with a CF card, so I bought a "verbatim" 2GB card.
Before I updated the OS, I sampled a few things and it would freeze during saving or loading samples that are longer than a few secs. Did a little research and decided to update to 1.31. Haven't had an issue again but I also haven't sampled anything longer than about 15 seconds.
I created an "autoload" folder and noticed when I boot up it hangs/freezes on random wav files. It takes 2 and up to sometimes 4 times to get it turned on. The time it does boot it loads superfast.
I'm just wondering if its the cheap CF card causing issues or the ram? Without the CF card in, it boots 100% of the time. (Probably because it doesn't have to load any wavs) also when I updated to 1.31 it came with 4 songs preloaded and all 4 of those loaded 100% of the time with no hang ups.
Today I decided to sample a George Duke joint and when I play the sample through the mpc it has a weird high pitch noise that I've never heard before. I've sampled a few songs and none of the other had any issues.
Last thing, my pads are insanely quiet. If I don't turn on full level AND turn each sample to 100 then they are barely audible with headphones when master volume is at 3 o clock. I did some reading and saw that the 500 naturally has some quiet pads so I went ahead and ordered the fat pads hoping that'll help. I had an mpd before and I like using velocity for hihats and perc. All the pads work so it can't be the pad sensors right?
Before I updated the OS, I sampled a few things and it would freeze during saving or loading samples that are longer than a few secs. Did a little research and decided to update to 1.31. Haven't had an issue again but I also haven't sampled anything longer than about 15 seconds.
I created an "autoload" folder and noticed when I boot up it hangs/freezes on random wav files. It takes 2 and up to sometimes 4 times to get it turned on. The time it does boot it loads superfast.
I'm just wondering if its the cheap CF card causing issues or the ram? Without the CF card in, it boots 100% of the time. (Probably because it doesn't have to load any wavs) also when I updated to 1.31 it came with 4 songs preloaded and all 4 of those loaded 100% of the time with no hang ups.
Today I decided to sample a George Duke joint and when I play the sample through the mpc it has a weird high pitch noise that I've never heard before. I've sampled a few songs and none of the other had any issues.
Last thing, my pads are insanely quiet. If I don't turn on full level AND turn each sample to 100 then they are barely audible with headphones when master volume is at 3 o clock. I did some reading and saw that the 500 naturally has some quiet pads so I went ahead and ordered the fat pads hoping that'll help. I had an mpd before and I like using velocity for hihats and perc. All the pads work so it can't be the pad sensors right?