Dear Ak.sys... I hate you!!!

And ak.sys hates me too..! At least I think so.

Has anyone else had trouble loading a bulk amount of sounds to your MPC4k??? I've been going through it for like 2 days now. I aquired a bunch of samples (12gigs) via DVDs from a friend and for some strange reason Ak.sys won't stay stable long enough from them to transfer.

I'm using Win7 32-bit and have all the drivers installed properly via LampDog's tutorial. And I copy the whole DVD to the HDD on my PC before attempting to copy over into Ak.sys. But Ak.sys will either crash or freeze up when copying large amount of data. Is there a workaround I don't know about???

What's your system based on...Intel, AMD?

Chipset maybe?

AMD! On a fairly new (2yo) Dell Desktop...

Ak.sys is a finicky program. It works well with some chipsets, while some others it don't. All of my systems were based on intel chipsets with a reputable brand name motherboard.

This platform has worked exceptionally well for me, so I can't say that ak.sys is a bad program. It's probably coded so that it seems to clash with anything other than intel...at least from my experiences.

No problems with transferring large sample amounts via AKSYS with a Lenovo T400, running WIN XP!

The DVD-RW on my WIN XP machine is teh broken...

Mike Boogie wrote:The DVD-RW on my WIN XP machine is broken...

Well there you go! Def a good enough reason to upgrade that joint. When I did my first upgrade, I went with a rack case and its been upgraded twice so far (mobo, ram, processor, pwr supply).

Big enough to custom configure the way I like. No need to buy brand name computers anymore for quality, pick up good components and piece them together yourself.

ak.sys does not do well with nested folders.


just drag 1 folder at a time.

Hey man. You said ur using windows 7. I hear that 7 is basically an upgrade from VISTA. I have just aquired a 4000 and got akaisys onto my Laptop running vista. But whenever i open the prog it just keeps crashing hard.. full on reboots the computer. I did abit of researching and found that it doesnt run good/at all? on vista.. so yeh installed akaisys on the windows XP computer i got and it runs VERY good. hasnt crashed once. it does everything i ask without any probs, so very happy.. Just giving u the lowdown so u dont learn the hardway..
Having said that, windows 7 + is the future, so it makes it hard to use akai sys and stay with the times (OS wise)..
Love this 4000 so far..

U3 wrote:Hey man. You said ur using windows 7. I hear that 7 is basically an upgrade from VISTA. I have just aquired a 4000 and got akaisys onto my Laptop running vista. But whenever i open the prog it just keeps crashing hard.. full on reboots the computer. I did abit of researching and found that it doesnt run good/at all? on vista.. so yeh installed akaisys on the windows XP computer i got and it runs VERY good. hasnt crashed once. it does everything i ask without any probs, so very happy.. Just giving u the lowdown so u dont learn the hardway..
Having said that, windows 7 + is the future, so it makes it hard to use akai sys and stay with the times (OS wise)..
Love this 4000 so far..

Has this been done on a win 7 pro or ultimate o.s.?

Both allow older programs to run in "xp mode".

Home Premium apparently won't work since it doesn't have this feature.

I have Win 7 Ultimate and I tried using different compatabilty modes. Ak.sys will run stable without crashing, but you can't copy anything to it! Dammit man!

How about putting a swappable drive housing in your machine so that you can go between two hd's if you need to.

One with your current win 7 on it, and the other with XP. That way you can do preproduction on the XP drive then carry your project over to the other for whatever you intend to do with it.

There's always a solution to a problem.

just get a MAC.

My new mac has a similar problem.Bu i try to use only the samples i like.So copy small amounts.Or use a usb stick in the front .Aksyys is cool apart from this.

rookie wrote:just get a MAC.

Co sign.