MPC Renaissance and MPC Studio v1.3 & 1.31 Bug Reports

Im new here. Loving the 1.3 update. But i dont know if this is a bug. All of my vst instruments change volume when I press play or record. I can see the volume knob move inside nexus, or whatever vsti im using. My mpc expansions play normal with no extreme boost in volume. Other than the bpm bug everything esle is stable for me. If there is a work around, please let me know.

Windows 7 64 bit
8g ram
Amd quad core
Mbox pro 3

The Ren's Pads are laid out in General MIDI format.....other MPCs as well. The only difference is that you can't change Pad to Note number assignment easily.

If you open up a Ren program file with a text editor, you should be able to change Pad Note Number Assignment.

Still that doesn't change the fact that I cannot trigger pad a4 via any midi note.

Same issue here on mac, when I press play start my vst instruments are all jumping to maximum volume.

InspectahEX wrote:Same issue here on mac, when I press play start my vst instruments are all jumping to maximum volume.

Let me ask this for the 3rd time......

Is the Track Mixer or Plugin Mixer set at the default setting (maxed) when this issue occurs? Does this issue occur when you reduce the level of the Track Mixer and Plugin Mixers?

Ok. I insert a vsti. Go through presets. Find a sound I like. Press play. Then inside the plugin the volume increases very loud. I usually pull the track mixer down before I press play or record. Small annoying bug

DaSpacestation wrote:Ok. I insert a vsti. Go through presets. Find a sound I like. Press play. Then inside the plugin the volume increases very loud. I usually pull the track mixer down before I press play or record. Small annoying bug

The Ren's Mixer for Plugin Tracks send MIDI CC volume control to plugins. The Ren's Mixer channel strips are defaulted to '100' which is the max. So once you press Play Start, the Ren's Mixer will send MIDI CC volume (max) to your plugin causing your plugin audio level to spike. In the case of a VST plugin I have, it will jump from 0 db to the max 6 db.

This is not a bug. This is currently how the Ren's mixer is designed.

DaSpacestation wrote:Im new here. Loving the 1.3 update. But i dont know if this is a bug. All of my vst instruments change volume when I press play or record. I can see the volume knob move inside nexus, or whatever vsti im using. My mpc expansions play normal with no extreme boost in volume. Other than the bpm bug everything esle is stable for me. If there is a work around, please let me know.

Windows 7 64 bit
8g ram
Amd quad core
Mbox pro 3

Yes thats a BUG I've confirmed it,with steps given to reproduce it earlier in the thread. It does not however happen everytime,which makes it a hard bug to catch.
For some reason, automation is being written when pressing the combi of rec/play under whatever circumstance, not sure why... There needs to be dead automation until it's actually being manually written via q-links,n this would solve it.

JAH wrote:

DaSpacestation wrote:Ok. I insert a vsti. Go through presets. Find a sound I like. Press play. Then inside the plugin the volume increases very loud. I usually pull the track mixer down before I press play or record. Small annoying bug

The Ren's Mixer for Plugin Tracks send MIDI CC volume control to plugins. The Ren's Mixer channel strips are defaulted to '100' which is the max. So once you press Play Start, the Ren's Mixer will send MIDI CC volume (max) to your plugin causing your plugin audio level to spike. In the case of a VST plugin I have, it will jump from 0 db to the max 6 db.

This is not a bug. This is currently how the Ren's mixer is designed.

The Rens mixer shouldn't send any sort of midi cc to any plugin, under any circumstance, if it's not being told to. Why you think this isn't a bug is beyond me. I can confirm that 1.2 didn't do this, so why on earth would it be happening in 1.3?
That my friend is indeed a bug, or a flawed design,which would cause me to argue that it's a bug. As I should mention it does not happen everytime.

Unusable imo to sequence in standalone, unless your not bothered with this,and can tolerate buggy software,which I cannot..

im on imac SL 10.68 intel core duo
Bug - Random track mutes happening, i even deleted all the tracks and re done them, played it back a few times - fine, then i played it again and for some reason my drums automatically start playing from the start of my 8 bars even tho i have just muted them. and i wasn't doing any track mutes whilst recording,
I also have a keygroup track in this sequence (the first one i have made) and this is the first time this has happemed to me
Hope dan/pete get on the case..

bobbybland wrote:

JAH wrote:

DaSpacestation wrote:Ok. I insert a vsti. Go through presets. Find a sound I like. Press play. Then inside the plugin the volume increases very loud. I usually pull the track mixer down before I press play or record. Small annoying bug

The Ren's Mixer for Plugin Tracks send MIDI CC volume control to plugins. The Ren's Mixer channel strips are defaulted to '100' which is the max. So once you press Play Start, the Ren's Mixer will send MIDI CC volume (max) to your plugin causing your plugin audio level to spike. In the case of a VST plugin I have, it will jump from 0 db to the max 6 db.

This is not a bug. This is currently how the Ren's mixer is designed.

The Rens mixer shouldn't send any sort of midi cc to any plugin, under any circumstance, if it's not being told to. Why you think this isn't a bug is beyond me. I can confirm that 1.2 didn't do this, so why on earth would it be happening in 1.3?
That my friend is indeed a bug, or a flawed design,which would cause me to argue that it's a bug. As I should mention it does not happen everytime.

Unusable imo to sequence in standalone, unless your not bothered with this,and can tolerate buggy software,which I cannot..

The Ren's Mixer sends volume to the plugins mixer. Open up your plugin GUI. Then adjust the levels of the Ren's Track Mixer. You will see that when adjusting the Ren track levels the mixer within your plugin (when supported) will respond accordingly. Your plugin levels will be updated by adjusting track levels on the Ren or when pressing play start.

You may not like it, but that is how it performs. It does this every time unless the plugin doesn't support this.

It's beyond me that......oh never mind.

And this is how it should work?

bobbybland wrote:And this is how it should work?

"How do you want it to work?" is the better question. I'm not here in this thread to debate. I'm just confirming whether functions are bugs or designed that way. Akai is reading this feedback.

This happened in 1.2 as well, but it is still happening. On certain songs I create, when in song mode and playing it back, the sample fades out on the first bar of the first sequence.. it does not happen when i press play start again.. only the first time. I can't figure out what the hell the cause is, and I thought it was a glitch on this particular beat, but it happened on another one as well.

windows 8
i5
8gb ram
1.3 mpc software

The MPC5000 does the same thing...

Here goes one for the Windows ASIO users.

Rework of the ASIO driver to be compatible with USB 3.0. I had so much noise with my 3.0 ports it was ridiculous. Glad I also have 2.0 ports or I would of been screwed.