By Ninety1
Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:39 pm
No matter what I do with my 500 it keeps dropping notes like crazy. To get acquainted with the machine I made a simple 2 bar test pattern containing 4 drum hit samples and one 2 bar melodic sample. The machine can't get to the end of the pattern without dropping at least one of these sounds.
All sounds were sampled in mono directly into the 500, and assigned to the same program. The drum samples are less than one second long each, set to mono overlap and I intentionally set them to mute group 1 so they cut each other off. I programmed a basic beat with those on track 1. So far so good. Then on track 2 I triggered the melodic loop, which is about 4 seconds long. The voice overlap for this sample was also set to mono. With both tracks unmuted the melodic sample plays for about a quarter to a half a bar and then just drops out randomly. Sometimes one or two of the drum samples will drop out as well while the melodic loop is trying to play. Turning off the mute group for the drum samples doesn't change this behavior either. However if I go to track mute and mute one of the tracks the other plays through without problems.
The machine is connected to AC power, on the latest OS (1.31), and I removed the external RAM to eliminate that variable from the equation while testing. I've had this thing for a few years and every time I tried to use it I would come up against this problem, assume I just didn't "get" the machine and missed something important, and give up and put it back in the closet. I've been using an MPC1000 as my main production machine for the past year though without issue, so this time I'm pretty confident in my understanding of the MPC workflow. And I can't understand how such a simple project is overloading the machine to the point of dropped notes. WTF?
I can upload a zipped version of my test project folder with the .ALL file and the samples and sequence data if someone would be kind enough to try it on their 500. Because at this point I'm seriously starting to think that there is something broken on my specific machine. Any advice guys?
All sounds were sampled in mono directly into the 500, and assigned to the same program. The drum samples are less than one second long each, set to mono overlap and I intentionally set them to mute group 1 so they cut each other off. I programmed a basic beat with those on track 1. So far so good. Then on track 2 I triggered the melodic loop, which is about 4 seconds long. The voice overlap for this sample was also set to mono. With both tracks unmuted the melodic sample plays for about a quarter to a half a bar and then just drops out randomly. Sometimes one or two of the drum samples will drop out as well while the melodic loop is trying to play. Turning off the mute group for the drum samples doesn't change this behavior either. However if I go to track mute and mute one of the tracks the other plays through without problems.
The machine is connected to AC power, on the latest OS (1.31), and I removed the external RAM to eliminate that variable from the equation while testing. I've had this thing for a few years and every time I tried to use it I would come up against this problem, assume I just didn't "get" the machine and missed something important, and give up and put it back in the closet. I've been using an MPC1000 as my main production machine for the past year though without issue, so this time I'm pretty confident in my understanding of the MPC workflow. And I can't understand how such a simple project is overloading the machine to the point of dropped notes. WTF?
I can upload a zipped version of my test project folder with the .ALL file and the samples and sequence data if someone would be kind enough to try it on their 500. Because at this point I'm seriously starting to think that there is something broken on my specific machine. Any advice guys?