Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
By Beatsmith Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:21 am
Just wondering if there is any mpc geniuses who can help me out with a big problem. I've owned & operated an mpc 2500 for about a year now with jj os 3.10 and hard drive already installed. Been running all smooth until recently when I tried to save a beat I was making when it keeps saying file name already exists, then when I change the name same thing happens, It won't even let me replace it, I've even gone through to make sure everything is saved under a unique name. This happens when I try to save everything at once or programs, samples etc individually. The exact same thing occurs when i try to save to compact flash card as well. All in all I cannot save anything. Reading through the forums a few people have had same problem with no real solution for me. I'm not sure if the hard disk was formatted i'm pretty sure flash card wasn't. When following the steps to format the hard disk though I ran into a new problem, there is no utility page on my mpc with a format option there is only save/load/usb to choose from. If anyone can offer me some help I would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sorry for the long post too.
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By Beatdiggerjazzcat Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:43 pm
:/

This happens a lot... It happened to me with my hard drive
It also happens with my cf (8gb) card

Formatting made no difference

Press "open window button" when in the load screen to get to the format option window

As far as I am aware, the answer is the same as the issue.... A big fat WTF?????

The only way I can save is to use a fresh and formatted 128mb cf each time, back it up by USB to my CPU and start again
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By Beatdiggerjazzcat Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:45 am
One 128mb cf and the means to back up on CPU is all you need.

Then you can format each time you start a new project

I can load from my 8gb cf so I use that as a sample bank for drums ect

It will not save without error to anything above 128mb, I do not know why this happens.

If you ever get the actual reason for the fault please inform me

If you are like me and have tried everything you will know its not a user error