Popping/cracking/broken speaker noise with brand new MPC ONE

Help please. I've had this for less than a week and it just started doing this today.

It sounds like the sound card or something is broken when I play any drum samples. It's like a latency issue or as if the sample is too loud and it's clipping really badly (but it's not actually clipping). If I play the exact same sample off of my computer it sounds perfectly fine. Nothing has changed in my audio interface or levels or anything, I even tried using different speakers, I don't know what to do. It's completely unusable like this. Was just starting to really enjoy the workflow with this thing too. Is there a fix to this?

It sounds like you've got an FX in your chain or something that is driving the levels to clip.

Might also just be a cable hooked up poorly or incorrectly. You can get weird audio changes when you plug in a stereo output into a mono source.

Maybe some pictures or explanation of how you have hooked things up?

Alright so there is no issue in standalone mode, only when the usb is hooked up to the computer and I am playing samples on the mpc from the computer. Therefore I’m assuming it has something to do with the connection to my computer, maybe the usb cable?

Also it’s worse/more crackily on kicks and subs then on hats and snares.

iamtaliesin wrote:Alright so there is no issue in standalone mode, only when the usb is hooked up to the computer and I am playing samples on the mpc from the computer. Therefore I’m assuming it has something to do with the connection to my computer, maybe the usb cable?

Also it’s worse/more crackily on kicks and subs then on hats and snares.

You might have a ground loop or similar grounding issue. This is something I see with USB connections, the power supply might be dirty or not properly grounded on your PC?

iamtaliesin wrote:Alright so there is no issue in standalone mode, only when the usb is hooked up to the computer and I am playing samples on the mpc from the computer. Therefore I’m assuming it has something to do with the connection to my computer, maybe the usb cable?

Also it’s worse/more crackily on kicks and subs then on hats and snares.

It's has something to do with how the MPC ONE audio drivers are written.

CharlesRandolph wrote:

iamtaliesin wrote:Alright so there is no issue in standalone mode, only when the usb is hooked up to the computer and I am playing samples on the mpc from the computer. Therefore I’m assuming it has something to do with the connection to my computer, maybe the usb cable?

Also it’s worse/more crackily on kicks and subs then on hats and snares.

It's has something to do with how the MPC ONE audio drivers are written.

What does this mean?

iamtaliesin wrote:
What does this mean?

No matter the settings, the pop and crackle is going to show up until they fix it. Some people have used a separate USB hub or installed dedicated USB card.

Well if that’s the case then it’s weird that I had zero issues with this until about the 5th day of use with no changes in anything on my end.

iamtaliesin wrote:Well if that’s the case then it’s weird that I had zero issues with this until about the 5th day of use with no changes in anything on my end.

You could also try a different USB CABLE.

CharlesRandolph wrote:

iamtaliesin wrote:Well if that’s the case then it’s weird that I had zero issues with this until about the 5th day of use with no changes in anything on my end.

You could also try a different USB CABLE.

I have tried a different usb cable. I have tried reinstalling firmware. I have tried the factory reset from the mpc info menu. Nothing has worked yet.

Try switching your Audio Device Type to Windows Audio versus Direct Sound. This fixed it the sound issue on my end.

Menu -> Edit -> Preferences -> First Tab (Audio Device)