Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Nujabless Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:17 pm
ah.. I have a scsi hard drive with 16gb storage that works on my mpc2000xl.

I just wanted to try to load beats from a zipdisk that i saved on my mpc2000 a year ago. Ive always had problems with zipdrives. I never had a zipdrive that was working fine. My mpc2000 couldn't load beats from a zipdrive, but it was only possible to save..

I finally bought a mpc2000xl with an internal zipdrive (doesn't work..) and a loose SHIFT button (GRRR) one week ago. Now i can save on a 16gb hard drive instead of saving on floppys.. this is already an improvement. I should buy a cardreader though (a $1.00 cardreader What the **??) I really dont care if it looks ugly..
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By SimonInAustralia Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:23 pm
Nujabless wrote:I should buy a cardreader though (a $1.00 cardreader What the **??) I really dont care if it looks ugly..

That will not allow hot swapping of the CF cards though, which in having a hard drive as well, would probably not really be an issue for you.

If you want hot swap, you might have to pay around $50.
By Nujabless Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:55 pm
Red pill...

I hope I can make some good music to weaken the pain of those hard working asian people with my 40 Pin IDE To CF Compact Flash Card Adapter Bootable Male Single!

Thanks for the link of the cardreader though!

Mr. Debauch i love that sample of Intractable Humidity in the beginning.. I forgot the song name and the artist of that sample.. what a shame
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By mr_debauch Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:12 pm
Nujabless wrote:
Mr. Debauch i love that sample of Intractable Humidity in the beginning.. I forgot the song name and the artist of that sample.. what a shame


cheers, thanks.. it was done with a classical song, a drum break I chopped, a zoom h4 field recorder, and a vst synth.
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By JUKE 179r Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:36 pm
mr_debauch wrote:there might be a little pin hole you can push a paper clip into to eject it...

usually the zip drive power must be turned on to eject..


If I remember correctly, hold the Zip eject button when you power up the MPC. It should pop out then.
I'm going to sell my 2000XL so for now I'm swapping out my SCSI card reader (sell for extra cash) and reinstalling a Zip750 drive.