4000 plus(blue) or 4000 white one?

shimmyshimmy wrote:I'm the blue one user and I can say I get many FATAL ERRORS when I try to audition large files (something longer than 50 seconds or so) but as you see I know what causes problem so it is easy to overcome it.

Check your RAM, my Blue Plus would do strange things when working at 88 or 96, until I swapped the RAM.
Also watch the samples you try to use.
I had some 24bit samples from a library that will lock up both the 4k's.

This can be true as I've heard a lot about crappy RAM. I see it's not a HDD problem 'cus I had this issues on pendrive. Last time I was trying to record my beat which was something about 3 minutes and when I pressed record in RECORD mode ... FATAL ERROR, tried it again and it worked, skipping all this 4K is gr8, if I could exchange my blue one with white one I would do it .

konc3pt wrote:

Fess wrote:That's funny, mine works like a charm and it was one of the last 200 or so units shipped

Yea cuz akai called you and said your blue mpc was in the last batch....

I dunno call forat argue with him...Im just passing on what was told to me...no reason to get all snippy.

Yeah right, konc3pt,
you CLAIM to have spoken to Forat.

Thing is, I was having lunch with Quincy Jones yesterday, I he told me Forat is on crack most days.

^^^did you get off on that or something? or you own blue 4000 ?

Forgive me but I dont get the joke

what's so unusual about getting your mpc fixed at forat ? it's either VST or Forat...I happen to be in the area that day cuz I had to visit ambassy.

is forat celebrity to you is that why it's so hard to belive you can go to his store to get your mpc serviced ?

I know it may sound like a ferry story from where you are, but reality is if you're in cali you can go to to Forats store to get your shit fixed any time if you in studio city area.


like I said earlier

konc3pt wrote: call forat argue with him...Im just passing on what was told to me...no reason to get all snippy.

OK well after you go see forat, maybe go see a doctor too and tell him your sense of humour ain't working properly and can you have some drugs. Haloperidol, perhaps.

i don't understand why its so crazy for him to know when his 4000 was shipped.
ever heard of a serial number, snips??

plus it isn't forat's word against his, its yours against his.

OH DIP!

feline1 wrote:OK well after you go see forat, maybe go see a doctor too and tell him your sense of humour ain't working properly and can you have some drugs. Haloperidol, perhaps.

so it went from discussion about mpc 4000 to insulting eh...I see you running out constructive of shit to say so you try to be funny now too

being clown is not as easy as you thought it was, is it.

and since you already know what doctor prescribes tell him that shit is not working out for you...and maybe lay off that booze since you not supposed to take take meds and drink alcohol at the same time.

as far as im concerned I will still take authorized akai service repair center's word over what you have to say, cuz you nobody in this case

Aerodynamic321 wrote:i don't understand why its so crazy for him to know when his 4000 was shipped.
ever heard of a serial number, snips??

plus it isn't forat's word against his, its yours against his.

OH DIP!

by the way sherlock, does your serial number also say how many 4000's was produced in last batch ?.

konc3pt wrote:

Aerodynamic321 wrote:i don't understand why its so crazy for him to know when his 4000 was shipped.
ever heard of a serial number, snips??

plus it isn't forat's word against his, its yours against his.

OH DIP!

by the way sherlock, does your serial number also say how many 4000's was produced in last batch ?.

actually. just checked, yeah it does.
relax man i'm just messin'.
seriously though its not impossible to obtain information like that with a serial number.
its probably a internet search and a phone call away.

so quit'cha snippin!

Anyone heard of a fix for the fatal errors? Ive read quite a bit on the forums, but changing ram and hard drive dont seem to be the cure.

ask forat!!!

rdavila wrote:Anyone heard of a fix for the fatal errors? Ive read quite a bit on the forums, but changing ram and hard drive dont seem to be the cure.

get rid of that mpc asap, he'll tell you the same thing...unless you willing to drop few bills on getting it fixed

my blue 4k just arrived. Clean as a whistle, and coincidently, theres a sticker on the back from VST.

I have two MPC PLUS versions. One I got brand new from Music Store (Cologne, Germany) at that time,
when the MPC5000 was announced. So I bought this model for a sold-out price (1699 Euros).

One year later, I got another used one from Ebay, like new, including the SPDIF and 8-out option (1400 Euros).

So far, I never encountered any fatal errors, BUT I had several issues with the cable connections on BOTH units.

The problems were:
New machine: front USB-port not working from time to time, no boot-up from time to time
Used machine: no boot-up, just white screen

These problems could be fixed by reseated the cable connections between the boards.

From then on, everything has been working like a charm.

TSR

Thinking of getting the white 4k, when im Banging the blue one (that i own) the music ends up sounding crappy and dull...