In love with the Mpc 60I!

Congrats dude, I love my armrest!!

You'll get faster with the numbers, soon you'll just hear it and type in a number that is really close to where you want it.

My advice? use the numbers over the data wheel now, it will get you faster. I enjoy sampling on the 60 more than anything, but it's not the fastest way of working.

I have been using the numbers mostly. Thats not the problem. Its more my cutting. Not sounding as good. But it could be the drums ive been cutting. I have a week off from work for turkey day, so I will spend more time with her.
El, I know youve covered this before but can you give me a quick walkthrough of backlight replacement? If not its cool.

unless you know how to solder or desolder, a walkthrough won't cut it.

If you do know how, it will be easy to figure out, midi-rakete.de has a picture walkthrough on the S1000, check it out.

in the sound edit page, have a look at soft key 4, as for your cutting, you just have to use your ears, set the soft start and end times until you are satisfied, then delete before and after soft start. you can also use the zone feature to set the points and use the play X to play before the zone, after the zone, and the zone itself, then copy the numbers to the soft start and end.

I do know how to solder. What do you think of that new cold soldering iron? Also I am doing all that in my trimming, Im just sucking right now. Ill post my first beat when Im done compared to one of my 1000 or 2000 beats. But damn this machine is fun. I think your right about the layout. Its perfect. Also what is the easiest way to put up an avatar? And as for beats I see that Andreas uses soundclick or somehting like that.

OK then basically, you unscrew the two screws on each side under the plastic endcheaks and lift up the hood arefully, then unscrew the hinged display from the bottom, undo the ribbon connectors that connect the display to the circuit boards, you may have to cut the plastic ties that bundle the ribbons.

Once you pull out the display, there are 4 screws on the back, undoo those and pop it open, the lcd circuit board it held in by some shallow plastic tabs, you have to gently pop it out, then on one sode of the lcd there will be two leads that are soldered to the board, desolder them and then pull on them until the backlight is out, then slide the new one in, solder, put it back together and back into the machine, close the lid plug the unit back in and pray a little before you switch it on, if everything works, put the 4 screws on the sides back in.

not really that hard, but take your time and be careful, remember to keep track of which screws go where and where the ribbon connectors go, you can use a sharpie to write numbers on the side of the connectors and then match them, but there aren't that many for the backlight, 2 IIRC. and they are different sizes.

Never used a cold soldering iron, are they any good?

as for the chopping, it just takes some practice I guess.

Nice details! I like that. How fragile is the backlight itself? How easliy are they damaged? Your white backlight pic looks very bright compared to most pics I see. Now I know it will never be as bright as the newer mpcs, but do you find that white backlight to be very easy to read and easy on the eyes?

The soldering gun is cold when you touch it and then heats up to 800 degrees in a sec. No cords and seems like you could just lay it anywhere. I like that about it. Not that Im lazy when I solder. I saw it on some tech show. The commercial looks cheezy but I read they are super good.

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Im about to go cut some more on the 60 right now. Finally a day off. But later in the day I will have to work on the 1000. My roomate and I have a show with the Grouch and some of those other guys on the 2nd. I use my 1000 live.
To trigger some samples and to play the beats.

the 60 really trains your ears man, I'm gonna chop some stuff on it today.

that iron sounds cool, but I don't use solderguns, I use pencil irons (as should you!)

the backlight itself is flexible, but I wouldn't fold it, but it can bend a bit and be fine. I had a new blue and a new wite backlight installed and I liked the white one better, easier to read. the LCD is somewhat fragile, so be careful when you have to pop out the pcb.