please help ASAP MY MPC STOPPED ALLOWING ME TO SAVE

please someone help me-
today for the first time ever mpc 500 started crashing while i was recording sequences -- first it would freeze while record and play were enabled and then would have to be restarted. restart would bring it to a saved point but not the most recently saved project. over the course of the day ive tried redoing what i was trying to record and basically have realized that even without a "freeze" mpc is ignoring my attempts to save. It'll save "files saved" and then if i try switching it off and on nothing is actually saved. it was also doing weird shit like changing measures of sequences to 5/4 for no reason. i have a show in like 2 days that i need to be able to prepare for, please help !!!

also: cf card is 4 gig. i'm waiting on my ram upgrade right now it's just the shitty one it comes with. could that be the problem, that im running low on RAM?

Hey! You broke a cherry! Welcome to the club kid

On a last note you should save enitre project at all times and everytime you do something new and when you're done recording some samples, save those too as all samples. I hate disappearing samples, but since I've been saving samples seperate from entire project things seem to be alright.

hey thanks for the response-

i was saving entire project, after the first freeze episode i saved entire project every time i made a change and now the problem seems to be that it literally ignores my save command. it says "FILES SAVED" and yet when mpc restarts the sequence is not even there. this has happened like 4 times . i tried saving it to new project files. do you think saving the sequence separately might work?

after reading most of the posts on here i could find that dealt with similar problems seems like this is probably an OS issue.

it seems like no matter how many new projects i make the closest i can get to a auto-loading project that includes all my sequences is to have it auto load some of the sequences but there are still a few sequences that i always have to load manually.

i noticed it always tends to be the same sequences (and they happen to be the ones i was working on the first day that i encountered freezing errors) which makes me think something in the sequence files are corrupted as a result of the freezing. i tried changing the names of the sequence files on my computer , loading those sequences and then saving project file and that doesn't work either. i've also tried saving entire to autoload and saving entire to internal. (neither worked)

in addition i tried saving allsongs/sequences to internal and to a folder but that also won't properly load the problem sequences.

Finally i have noticed in a couple of instances that samples which previously had been assigned to pads mysteriously disappeared.

any clues how to work around this buggy shit? i dont care if it happens once in a while, but the idea of never being able to save my work the way i want to ever again is really frustrating. im also posting this to the bug list discussion.

Have you tried saving entire memory to folder, then loading LOAD: Folder - Clear memory: yes ?

Be sure to save each beat to its own folder.

Also..

Are you running the current OS 1.31?

hey yes i have latest OS. im not sure i understand you perfectly. when i select save entire mem i have 2 options, to save it to autoload or to a project file. are you saying i should save each sequence to its own folder inside a larger folder and then load that larger folder?

That is, if i want to load sequence 1-5 i'd have a folder A , inside that would be folder 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 each containing its own sequences?
it was so much simpler when save entire mem to project would just work

meanwhile 1st time i loaded entire project this morning it was as it was yesterday, second time half the sequences failed to load at all. god dammit i am starting to hate my mpc.

qiuhaf7qyh wrote:meanwhile 1st time i loaded entire project this morning it was as it was yesterday, second time half the sequences failed to load at all. god dammit i am starting to hate my mpc.

I know, sometimes I get disappearing samples too or missing notes in the sequencer. You have to save all the time every time you do something new on the 500. Its a bastard, but thats the solution and thats why only the strong survive when learning the monkey fist.

i dont know how many times ive saved in the last week. hundreds. success rate is like 5%. i swear to god if i could make a performance ready project file i wouldnt touch the **** thing ever again but it just refuses to let me. every time its the same. load project file. missing sequences. missing effects. have to load everything manually. what should be happening automatically i have to spend 10 minutes doing myself and changing shit between songs. i think this machine is just dead. will they replace it? akai havent even answered any emails yet. i really think by now i am good enough with the mpc , im familiar with the manual and how everything SHOULD work. and DID work until this week in fact. and it just isnt anymore.

I meant..

Save: Entire Memory

New Folder..

You will have to back out and re-enter the folder after creating it, or it will not save in the folder, and sequences and samples will be overwritten.

Then..

Load: Folder

Which will load all of the files in the folder with one swoop.

oh yeah, i tried that.
the only thing i havent tried yet is reinstalling the OS, if that doesnt work i think my last option is harassing akai til they replace the thing.

This happened to me a while back, i replaced the batteries in my 500 with Sausages, since that day all my beats have sounded fat and meaty like Dilla and Madlib!

well i found my warranty but now the question is since i bought it on ebay i dont have a proof of purchase. (it was brand new in the sealed box which does have serial # etc) HOWEVER the guy i bought it from isnt a registered ebay user anymore. am i screwed??

**i bought it in august

As long as you kept the packet the Sausages came in, it shouldn't be a problem.

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