MPC-60 seems on the fritz, maybe the pads... HELP!

So I just bought a maxed out mpc-60 with the scsi and roger linn OS, everything is working but...

After an hour with the unit it has started doing something really weird where suddenly if I'm trying to edit sounds and I'm in sounds> assign sounds> then when I press a pad and hold the pad at all it will start cycling through all the sounds really fast like it is selecting different sounds constantly. Even if I just touch the pad quickly to select which pad I want it will just fly through all the sounds and glitch out.

Not all the pads seem to be buggy like this, but it seemed to spread to more pads now. When I try to play a sound on these sometimes it will switch sounds while I play them! I checked to see if it was because the settings to allow different samples to play with different velocities but none of that is the case I've built the program out of nothing.

It's like there is some kind of note repeat happening but it's causing it to cycle through parameters, the note repeat seems to be a little chaotic. makes me think maybe the pads are failing?

I have an mpc-3000 and this hasn't happened to me so I can't figure it out, I'm worried it's somethine worse than just dying pads.

any thoughts would be much appreciated.

thanks

It's cycling through different sounds rapidly? That doesn't sound like a hardware problem. Unless those sounds it's cycling through are assigned to nearby pads. But it sounds like a software glitch. Reinstall?

It's not a software issue.

Have you tried reseating the pads connector?

I make it a point whenever I buy any music gear that gets shipped to me to open it up and make sure all cables and connectors are properly seated.

It doesn't matter how well gear gets packed, shippers tend to throw boxes around quite a bit in their haste to make deadlines and the stuff inside can get jostled around.

Thanks guys, that is refreshing if you think it's not a software issue!

I haven't tried reseating the pad connectors is there a tutorial anywhere? Maybe I need to buy new pads.

yeah I bought this on ebay and it was packed in old clothes and bulging out of the box... it's got a near dead screen and now this pad issue but of course was described as perfect working LOL

It is really weird how it's like doing and arpeggio cycling through the pads like it's going crazy.

Appreciate the help!

Sounds like you need to buy a new backlight anyhow- when you have it open for that install, I'd clean it all up and check the connections like hunter mentioned...it could just be an easy fix.

How do you reinstall the software on a 60? Seems a bit far fetched lol.

I opened it up and jiggled the connector to the pads and it fixed it!

Thanks a lot guys