Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
By cjay Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:42 am
hey guys, got another problem but i do not know how to describe it... hope u understand me anyway...

Everytime i press pads in record mode really really fast it sounds good but when i stop and play it the pads i pressed are not in the rythm i pressed them..
what do i wrong?
By mastasteez Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:13 am
Have you checked the timing correct button?

Set this to off if you're confident your timing is on (or you wanna practice). If not 16/1 is a common setting. If it is this, you're probably on this setting or 8/1. This is the quantize function.
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By TiKkO Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:19 am
Yup, what he said or play it right.
You might be either playing it off tempo, off time signature, or just plain old off-beat.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and stop being a dick for a moment and assume what you're actually doing is playing notes smaller than the MPC recognizes.
DOUBLE THE TEMPO on your MPC and try it again.
This will turn your 32nd notes into 16th notes, and so on, by cutting your measures in half. I usually use the double-time/half-time "trick" to adjust for sample loops that are too slow/fast to do what I want with them but it'll solve your note quantization problem too.