Share your knowledge on these two classic MPCs
By engineer Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:12 pm
Dear mpc forum. Does the 60 memory upgrade go bad? I had one in my 60ii since I've owned it and just last night the damn thing started to shut down on me in the midst of making beats. Up until that point I had never had a single problem w/this and I've made maybe 150 beats with it. Suddenly now it restarts itself every 30 minutes.

So I notice once it starts doing this that if I load a sound set then try to record more samples into it the samples that I had previously recorded would be glitched in with the new sample. It's sort of hard to explain but lets say I had a kick sampled into bass and I then I went to sample a horn riff, pieces of the horn riff would now be on the bass track along with the original sample. Every time I would sample something new another track would get glitched.

I figured something was wrong with the memory and took it out. Now my 60 works fine without any problems, it even seems like it goes between screens faster, though that could just be me.

Anyway has anyone heard anything like this happening before? Is this just a sign of more problems to come with the aging mpc? Any info would be appreciated.

By Deta!L Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:34 pm
mine does this as well, what did you do to fix it? get new memory or just take it out and put it back in?

I was tracking a beat out last night and had some way old sample trying to come in out of nowhere...ghost in the shell type stuff...not to mention my pads trigger other sounds (really faintly) all the time...

I believe I'm gonna track all my 60 beats out and then sell it if I can't find a fix. I love my 60 but this combined with the new OS for the 3K has me wanting the 3K which I don't like as much as the 60....

By fobedafied Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:57 pm
memory expansions from SOUNDLOGIC are GUARANTEED FOR LIFE!!!

try reseating the board, or show some support to SOUNDLOGIC who stand by their work...

By engineer Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:11 am
I just took the memory out and it stopped reseting. I must have had the machine on for a good 5 hours before it started acting up again. So I'm not sure if it's even the ram now. I think some component of the power is probably screwing up. I'm just at a loss to what it could be.

The chips looked like they needed to be reseated and I have put it back in since then to access beats I had made in the past. It hasn't really helped much.