HELP ME~, Just bought the 5k NEWB ALERT

I think it's brokeded, I have to hammer the hell out of the drum pads and even then it's not playing the sound all the time when played really fast, I changed the pad sensitivity and it does nothing also. WTH is up with the timing on this thing? Its feels off.

I don't know what to do but I'm pretty pretty pretty angry.

okay relax...
can you explain it or load up a projekt that you having problem with?

what about the samplestart point?
note off maybe?

never had problems like that with the mpc....

Ok... relaxed , Basically here's whats happening, first, the pads are seriously unresponsive. I am a huge man with fists of power but I don't seem to be strong enough to make my samples play when i hit the pads on occasion, really annoying when playing things over long loops. I set the Pad Sensitivity setting to the highest and it seemed to do nothing.

Next the timing. Im coming from the 2kxl so 16th notes are what used to be 8ths got it cool (well a little gay cause the click on slow tempos feels better in 1/8th and now counts me in for 8 clicks blech, but i digress) now i have to play rapidly repeated notes in 32's which is hyper lame cause it leaves an entire 16th note worth of error making room. Big deal NUKAI you added 64th notes, what am I Beethoven? No. but when I finally get something Ill play it back and it will be playing the notes on the 1 or 2 or whatever it wants when i played it perfectly. I don't understand why its making me this angry.

Can you help?

bobbysonz wrote:Ok... relaxed , Basically here's whats happening, first, the pads are seriously unresponsive. I am a huge man with fists of power but I don't seem to be strong enough to make my samples play when i hit the pads on occasion, really annoying when playing things over long loops. I set the Pad Sensitivity setting to the highest and it seemed to do nothing.

Next the timing. Im coming from the 2kxl so 16th notes are what used to be 8ths got it cool (well a little gay cause the click on slow tempos feels better in 1/8th and now counts me in for 8 clicks blech, but i digress) now i have to play rapidly repeated notes in 32's which is hyper lame cause it leaves an entire 16th note worth of error making room. Big deal NUKAI you added 64th notes, what am I Beethoven? No. but when I finally get something Ill play it back and it will be playing the notes on the 1 or 2 or whatever it wants when i played it perfectly. I don't understand why its making me this angry.

Can you help?

i think the pad problem is just with your machine, i haven't heard of this problem before and it is definitely not the case with my machine.

as for the 64th note problem, unless it is just your machine, my experience with my machine is that it has the tightest sequencer i've ever used. tighter than mv 8000, mpc 2000 xl, mpc 1000, cubase, logic, etc.

if you cannot play accurately with the quantize setting off, then unfortunately i am forced to believe that it is simply your lack of ability to play in time.

to help you, the akai professionals created a 'quantizing algorithm', ... if you have trouble with 64th notes, or even 16th notes, you can simply move the quantize of the recorded, 'either post or pre recording', to ever more simpler timing pieces.

such as eighth notes, and no, ... the 2000(xl) does not have different 8th notes than the 5000. that's silly.

if your beat is an 8th note at 90 bpm, ... it will be a 1/4 note at 180 bpm. ... just a thought.

oneday2one wrote:i think the pad problem is just with your machine, i haven't heard of this problem before and it is definitely not the case with my machine.

as for the 64th note problem, unless it is just your machine, my experience with my machine is that it has the tightest sequencer i've ever used. tighter than mv 8000, mpc 2000 xl, mpc 1000, cubase, logic, etc.

if you cannot play accurately with the quantize setting off, then unfortunately i am forced to believe that it is simply your lack of ability to play in time.

to help you, the akai professionals created a 'quantizing algorithm', ... if you have trouble with 64th notes, or even 16th notes, you can simply move the quantize of the recorded, 'either post or pre recording', to ever more simpler timing pieces.

such as eighth notes, and no, ... the 2000(xl) does not have different 8th notes than the 5000. that's silly.

if your beat is an 8th note at 90 bpm, ... it will be a 1/4 note at 180 bpm. ... just a thought.

lol

have you os 2.0 on it?
have you load your own drums?
or just a kit from a different mpc?

os 2.0 and i load my own drums.

Take it out of the box, now try it.

hit 'mode'|'other', then under 'pad'. Thats where you change the velocity curves of the pads maybe if its preowned they jacked the settings. I have had issues with samples not triggering 100% of time when the sample voice is set to mono rather than poly, rarly yes but its happened. To change to 16th notes in grid edit pres f1 for 't.c' then change the 'note value' to 1/16 then hit f4 'close'

onloadx wrote:hit 'mode'|'other', then under 'pad'. Thats where you change the velocity curves of the pads maybe if its preowned they jacked the settings. I have had issues with samples not triggering 100% of time when the sample voice is set to mono rather than poly, rarly yes but its happened. To change to 16th notes in grid edit pres f1 for 't.c' then change the 'note value' to 1/16 then hit f4 'close'

This sounds like exactly what im going through, only on mono particularly short samps. will try this advicings.

Thanks very much

oneday2one wrote:i think the pad problem is just with your machine, i haven't heard of this problem before and it is definitely not the case with my machine.

as for the 64th note problem, unless it is just your machine, my experience with my machine is that it has the tightest sequencer i've ever used. tighter than mv 8000, mpc 2000 xl, mpc 1000, cubase, logic, etc.

if you cannot play accurately with the quantize setting off, then unfortunately i am forced to believe that it is simply your lack of ability to play in time.

to help you, the akai professionals created a 'quantizing algorithm', ... if you have trouble with 64th notes, or even 16th notes, you can simply move the quantize of the recorded, 'either post or pre recording', to ever more simpler timing pieces.

such as eighth notes, and no, ... the 2000(xl) does not have different 8th notes than the 5000. that's silly.

if your beat is an 8th note at 90 bpm, ... it will be a 1/4 note at 180 bpm. ... just a thought.

lol At not being able to play in time. I fall out of bed sometimes for no reason so you might be on to something here j/k. Just for the record I get paid to make music so no that's probably not it.

Not to be all tit for tat.. But most of us get paid on music my friend. I've worked In this industry for just shy of a decade and by no means at all does getting paid for music parallel competancy. In fact I'd say 50 % of working producers Here in Cali at least, need to go back to school asap! We all make mistakes- or maybe I'm wrong an your hands down the greatest ever .

yeah cause i said I'm the greatest ever? I said I am capable enough to walk and chew gum, cause some guy who knows nothing about me questioned my ability and my reaction was jovial still, seriously the machine is broken you 3rd grade kool aid drinkers have fun now. Thanks for the awesome time on your forum, Akai sucks numark is worse don't be suckers.

bobbysonz wrote:you 3rd grade kool aid drinkers have fun now. Thanks for the awesome time on your forum, Akai sucks numark is worse don't be suckers.

Classy.

PadPusher5k wrote:Not to be all tit for tat.. But most of us get paid on music my friend. .

i don t know on which planet your living right now but most of the useres don t even get paid off making music or have ever earned or will ever earn something with making music...

but it s cool hobby ! i m having fun with
it!!some people go fishing some people tune cars i m making music...

if you see all the weekly posts with the 'how to use reason with the mpc' question you gonna realise that 9 out of 10 don t even own reason...