Bug Fix & Addition: MPC2500 OS-XL Ver2.16 21-MAR-2011

Bug Fix & Addition: MPC2500 OS-XL Ver2.16 21-MAR-2011
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1. [SAVE]

Cancellation of F4 (NEW) cannot be performed.

<<Addition>>
1. [MIDI/SYNC]

F5 (BUTTON) button addition

A function can be assigned to MIDI NOTE.
Refer to manual.
Refer to video

<<Change>>
"MIDI Program Change" window

YES of the Bank select field can be select during a play.

Partial change of a main screen

The specification of the sequence loop was changed.
Refer to manual.

Jungleman wrote:
Partial change of a main screen

The specification of the sequence loop was changed.
Refer to manual.

This is excellent, should make sequence looping so much faster. Nice!

wow I didn't expected any new release in several next weeks due to the current situation in Japan....
thanks jj!

same bug fix for the 1K :

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Bug Fix & Addition: MPC1000 OS2XL Ver2.15 21-MAR-2011
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Jungleman wrote:The specification of the sequence loop was changed.

The new Sequence loop settings seem to be incompatible with previous versions. Well, it basically says so on the Bug fix page, but still...

The main parameters now are First bar and Last bar, when they used to be First bar and amount of looped bars (or something similar). Yesterday (still on MPC2500 OSXL 2.15) I wrote a 5-bar sequence with a 4- bar loop starting on bar two, looping for four bars (2-5).

Now, on 2.16, when I push Play start, the sequence first plays from bar 1 to END (bar 5), just as it should. Then it starts looping - again from bar 1 to END (bar 5), overriding the loop settings of the previous version. In fact, I do think the new function actually is more intuitive but I wrote quite a few sequences using previous versions, now it seems I have to re-adjust all loop settings.

Nevertheless, setting Sequence loop is much easier now. I used to get seriously frustrated having to scroll across the whole screen several times while adjusting loop settings.

I didn't tried it yet but is there a quick way to put loop or on off just like pushing the F1 tab in older versions?

^^^havent tried it yet.. but doesnt look like it from the manual.I'm going to miss that.Im not going to update for a few weeks cause ive some gigs coming up and i use that all the time.

le rat wrote:I didn't tried it yet but is there a quick way to put loop or on off just like pushing the F1 tab in older versions?

It seems not.

Edit: Tested. No shortcut, no dedicated button.

.....&yet no midi track Volume/pan.

Thanks for the reply.

I've just read in the explanation URL that there was a new type of function and shortcut (STOP + PLAYSTART). I think it would be cool if it could be compatible one day with the recording capacity of audiotracks.

I'm thinking of my DPS16 when you can set the start and end recording point and even have a reharsal option. (Well that stuff works with a HDD so I don't know if it could be done on the 1K)

i like the new sequence loop layout. much easier to understand. moving the cursor down into the F1 loop tab itself was confusing, interface-wise. there was no other situation within the os where you could move the cursor down into a tab itself, so i'm glad he got rid of that.

just sent him my 'freezeloop' request, which is another (quicker) way of accessing & manipulating these sequence loop points, so hopefully he'll be able to implement this down the road:

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=141152