MPC5000 reviews, bug reports and fellow user support on the most recent standalone, hardware MPC from Akai
By pattat Fri May 10, 2013 12:08 pm
Hi

I have a few issues with the MPC5000!

Issue 1 (solved -> user mistake!)
The band pass and band stop filters have no effect. If I turn it on and change the frequency, nothing happens to the sample!

Issue 2
In 2 projects I reload, some notes have zero duration. I have read about it on this forum. It seems like a bug... However, is there anything which causes this? What can I do to prevent this? This is really stupid behavior.

Issue 3 (solved)
Another bug I found, is that sometimes, when I shift-select multiple notes in the grid editor and press delete or edit or window, the MPC deselects the selection. Which means I can't edit multiple notes. But, I found a way around it: Hold shift and then press delete or window or edit. The notes stay selected. So this is okay/fixed/solved.

Thanks a lot for your help
Last edited by pattat on Sat May 11, 2013 1:44 am, edited 1 time in total.
By pattat Fri May 10, 2013 12:23 pm
Will the setting "truncate duration" set to "as played" solve the issue (zero duration issue)?
By pattat Sat May 11, 2013 1:44 pm
There must be something we can do to prevent the zero duration bug, since it's happening with the same notes in the same sequence in the same project over and over again :hmmm:
By pattat Mon May 20, 2013 12:48 pm
I didn't experience the note duration bug as of late

but....

Last night I was loading a project and sequence 5 was entirely blank after loading. I reloaded the AllSeq&Songs file and sequence 5 was then loaded properly. It has got some issues with loading sequences correctly, the mpc5000! :hmmm:
By dazastah Wed May 29, 2013 3:53 pm
pattat wrote:Issue 2
In 2 projects I reload, some notes have zero duration. I have read about it on this forum. It seems like a bug... However, is there anything which causes this? What can I do to prevent this? This is really stupid behavior.


A couple of ways can be user error.. Well not error it's just function..
IF a pad is set to note on instead of one shot, then the sample will play as long as the midi note is held for defined by the adsr . So if you recorded a sequence by striking a pad without holding it, and your pad layer is set to 'note on' it wont play the full duration of a sample assigned to that pad layer.. depending on how adsr, is set.

Another way is by hardware design.. you've reached the polyphony limit.. And have too many events on at one time causing the mpc to steal notes from the earliest played events .. For this, we would need to know what your sequencing.. and how much things are going on.. If your playing big chords with multiple key group pgms or sequencing a bunch of external midi synths at the same time, this mite have that effect..