By
kvmoore
Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:40 am
Ok. I just spent a lot of time with my MPC X yesterday and overnight. Before doing a reset, I spent some time just basically learning how to do certain things with this machine that I'm accustomed to doing on my other MPCs and learning the workflow. While doing so, I did continue to experience dropouts from time to time and even experienced a crash while working within a program and the machine reloaded the current project. I'm glad I wasn't working on anything serious!!!!
At that point, I decided to go ahead and do the reset in preferences. From then on, I experienced no more dropouts, freezes or crashes while playing around with it several hours afterwards. I was feeling much better about it at that point. I then found out there was a newer 2.9.1 release that fixed some of the bugs in 2.9.0 and people who tried it confirmed it fixed the issues I was concerned about. As a result, I decided to download it and try it out for myself.
One of the issues reported by people using 2.9.0 involved midi ports not being recognized or remembered on connected USB midi interfaces and midi data not being remembered within projects that used midi ports from externally connected USB interfaces after loading those already saved projects (previously saved from within 2.8 I presume). This means you would need to setup all of the midi port information again for those tracks within that project, which sucks!! The other reported issue was not being able to save new projects that use midi data associated with external USB midi interfaces.
After downloading 2.9.1 and updating my MPC, I tested out all of the issues I was concerned about. Before and after updating from 2.8.1 to 2.9.1, MPC easily recognized my Emagic Unitor 8 midi interface I have connected via USB and all of of it's ports immediately appeared and were identified by name. Wonderful!!! After the update, I made a beat using sounds from my keyboard that I had connected via the midi ports on the externally connected Unitor 8, saved the project, and reloaded it successfully!!!! On top of that, I continued to no longer encounter any more audio dropouts, or freezing, or crashing. To add icing on the cake, the new Drum Synth plugins are NICE!!!! That brings me to where I am right now, currently running 2.9.1. Hopefully, everything will continue to go just as well the next time I turn my machine back on.
If for whatever reason, I experience any unexpected issues in the future, I'll keep ya posted.
Thanks.