Forum to discuss all matters relating to the MPC1000 and MPC2500 operating systems created by 'JJ' (all versions).
By ntalec Fri Aug 13, 2010 4:36 am
jimmie wrote:
I bought the MPC as a sequencer for it's timing. That is the MAIN reason. So this really boils my spleen. Musicians concerned with tight timing don't want any frilly **** buggering it up.
Timing is number one priority in a sequencer as far as I'm concerned and that's why I haven't touched my mpc since it started goin all sloppy with the latest JJOS2XL.


Never really thought about the 1k as having good sequencer timing simply because it was the first MPC I ever saw that had weight gain problems.
The 1k has always had a glinchy nature based on how much you ask it to do, and JJ is asking it to do a lot more than Akai ever did.
Just always found myself converting tracks to Audio Tracks to free up resources whenever I tried to do anything real on the 1k as a moble option.

The only MPC that was worst was the MPC500 and those voice stealing effects.
Seriously how can you say a unit has 32 notes of polyphony but that's only with no effects running. That gave the 500 a great initial release by having effect dependent polyphony.
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By TribeCalledQuest Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:12 pm
I wonder if the sloppy timing issue is the reason I noticed this last night:

When I play a drumloop in trim mode, I'lll edit it so that it loops perfectly, then timestretch it to my desired BPM. When I put it in a sequence of the same BPM and have it trigger on the 1st beat so that it will loop in sequencer mode, it seems to put a tiny little gap of silence at the end before it repeats. This sucky suck sucks! Can anyone confirm that ths is what's going on?
By jimmie Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:40 am
TribeCalledQuest wrote:I wonder if the sloppy timing issue is the reason I noticed this last night:

When I play a drumloop in trim mode, I'lll edit it so that it loops perfectly, then timestretch it to my desired BPM. When I put it in a sequence of the same BPM and have it trigger on the 1st beat so that it will loop in sequencer mode, it seems to put a tiny little gap of silence at the end before it repeats. This sucky suck sucks! Can anyone confirm that ths is what's going on?


Make sure the release is set to 0 in the amp envelope page.
If there is still a gap then I think I read somewhere on this forum about something along these lines.
Oh, and I've never trusted any 'detect bpm' type settings in the mpc, I've never found them to be accurate so I wouldn't be suprised if 'stretch to bpm' was fail also.
By MikkelM Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:30 pm
Hey there. Have just installed 1.33 and it is rock solid in timing when using Next sequence compared to 1.40. I am clocking an machinedrum from the MPC and all timing **** is gone. So I stick to 1.33, until this timing issue has been fixed.