By jurfin
Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:19 pm
Hello all!
I'm having trouble with my MPC Live. I'll often record hits on the pads and where there should only be a single hit, there are many (10 or so) low velocity hits on the other (not the one I hit) pads, at the same location on the grid. I've tried adjusting sensitivity and threshold settings for the pads, but even with pretty extreme settings I keep having this issue. Beyond that, I have noticed a bigger problem that's started happening more and more frequently lately. It's now happening just about every time I sit down with it. I play some pads on a drum (or keygroup) program and then suddenly either the top or bottom eight pads will "freeze" and become dimly lit in yellow. Hitting them won't play a new note. It's as if half of the pads believe they are just being held down when they're not. The only way I've found to un-freeze them is by going into pad mute and hitting pads and switching banks a few times until the unit kind of catches on. Also holding Note Repeat and pressing a few of them will sometimes fix it as well.
It's essentially behaving as if the pads are stuck. If I hold shift when they're stuck like this it will kind of spaz out trying to select a mode from the shortcuts menu, as it's being told to switch to eight different modes at once. This means that the unit is registering a pad press in the shortcut select mode when no pads are pressed. Or at least that's what it seems like to me.
I hope you guys might be able to help. I just found out from Akai that my warranty expired in August, which is pretty lame. I've never been hard on it, it seems apparent to me that this is some sort of hardware defect. Anyway though, I'm wondering if this is something you guys have run into before? I did contact MPC Stuff to see if they had come across this behavior before, and they said this was not something they had ever seen. Which is not encouraging...
A few people on Gearslutz recommended I cleaned the pad sensors, which I'm certainly willing to do, but I'm guessing from the reply from MPC Stuff that that's just not going to work
I'd really appreciate any help you could offer. My MPC is one of my favorite instruments and I am super bummed to be struggling with it like this. I look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for your time
I'm having trouble with my MPC Live. I'll often record hits on the pads and where there should only be a single hit, there are many (10 or so) low velocity hits on the other (not the one I hit) pads, at the same location on the grid. I've tried adjusting sensitivity and threshold settings for the pads, but even with pretty extreme settings I keep having this issue. Beyond that, I have noticed a bigger problem that's started happening more and more frequently lately. It's now happening just about every time I sit down with it. I play some pads on a drum (or keygroup) program and then suddenly either the top or bottom eight pads will "freeze" and become dimly lit in yellow. Hitting them won't play a new note. It's as if half of the pads believe they are just being held down when they're not. The only way I've found to un-freeze them is by going into pad mute and hitting pads and switching banks a few times until the unit kind of catches on. Also holding Note Repeat and pressing a few of them will sometimes fix it as well.
It's essentially behaving as if the pads are stuck. If I hold shift when they're stuck like this it will kind of spaz out trying to select a mode from the shortcuts menu, as it's being told to switch to eight different modes at once. This means that the unit is registering a pad press in the shortcut select mode when no pads are pressed. Or at least that's what it seems like to me.
I hope you guys might be able to help. I just found out from Akai that my warranty expired in August, which is pretty lame. I've never been hard on it, it seems apparent to me that this is some sort of hardware defect. Anyway though, I'm wondering if this is something you guys have run into before? I did contact MPC Stuff to see if they had come across this behavior before, and they said this was not something they had ever seen. Which is not encouraging...
A few people on Gearslutz recommended I cleaned the pad sensors, which I'm certainly willing to do, but I'm guessing from the reply from MPC Stuff that that's just not going to work
I'd really appreciate any help you could offer. My MPC is one of my favorite instruments and I am super bummed to be struggling with it like this. I look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for your time
I will try reaching out to the shop. I know they don't owe me anything, but maybe they can help.