Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
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By strength Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:03 am
say i made a sequence , copy it to sequence 2 so i can add something to it. record a new track on sequence 2 , then flip back and forth between sequence 1 and 2 just to see how the arrangement works, all of a sudden the new track i recorded into sequence 2 starts playin in sequence 1 instead of 2. this happened on random accasions throughout the time i been messin wiht the 500 over the last 2 months or so. anybody else get this?!
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By Contra Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:15 am
same with me, but doesnt happen to me the same way tho.

the "new" trk i make on seq.2
will play at the beginnin of seq.1(no, its not the rest of the loop finishing in the new sequence, its the loop starting anew) when i switch to it, just after pplaying seq.2(going into seq. 1)

it hasnt happened to me again since, only on one beat i was workin on.
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By rydan Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:07 am
Yes. If you record on sequence one, switch to sequence two, record on sequence two and then go back to track one without hitting stop inbetween, this will happen (and it will not just play it. The events will actually be copied into sequence one). I have emailed Akai with a step by step reproduction of this bug, and they have confirmed it, so it will hopefully be fixed...

The events will be copied even if you go out of overdub mode before you switch (or possibly, only then...), so just hit stop after overdubing, before changing sequence, and you'll be fine. A bit of a drag live though...
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By Contra Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:46 am
rydan wrote:Yes. If you record on sequence one, switch to sequence two, record on sequence two and then go back to track one without hitting stop inbetween, this will happen (and it will not just play it. The events will actually be copied into sequence one). I have emailed Akai with a step by step reproduction of this bug, and they have confirmed it, so it will hopefully be fixed...

The events will be copied even if you go out of overdub mode before you switch (or possibly, only then...), so just hit stop after overdubing, before changing sequence, and you'll be fine. A bit of a drag live though...


without noticing it maybe this is why i havent had it happen to me anymore, been changin the workflow, stoppin in between sequence recording.
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By Upright Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:10 pm
rydan wrote:Yes. If you record on sequence one, switch to sequence two, record on sequence two and then go back to track one without hitting stop inbetween, this will happen (and it will not just play it. The events will actually be copied into sequence one). I have emailed Akai with a step by step reproduction of this bug, and they have confirmed it, so it will hopefully be fixed...

The events will be copied even if you go out of overdub mode before you switch (or possibly, only then...), so just hit stop after overdubing, before changing sequence, and you'll be fine. A bit of a drag live though...



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By strength Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:28 pm
cool thanks for the tip
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By Contra Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:33 pm
well we solved that problem, neeeeeeext!
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By strength Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:26 pm
Contra wrote:well we solved that problem, neeeeeeext!


global warming?
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By Contra Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:27 pm
strength wrote:
Contra wrote:well we solved that problem, neeeeeeext!


global warming?


we'll leave that to Alistair Gore, Leo DeCap, and Melissa EfhRidge.

pz