How often your 500 freeze?

I have to share my complains:


How often this happens to you? Is it only my unit?

Got my 500 when they first came out and it has never done that on battery or power supply.

Has yours always done that or is it a more recent development?
Did you buy it new or used?
What OS version is it running?
What have you tried?

Not a known problem, certainly never happend to me. Make sure you have the latest OS. Also try reinitialising your MPC500. Turn it off, hold down ERASE and power up.

Do you have the memory upgrade?

try reinitialising your MPC500

done that 100 times

Do you have the memory upgrade?

Yes, i got 128mb

Has yours always done that or is it a more recent development?
Did you buy it new or used?
What OS version is it running?
What have you tried?

I bought it 4/5 years ago, os 1.31, I try to slow down when making beats, but sometimes it is hard. It happens when Im pushing too much buttons at a time. This time it happens when I want to 1) cutoff the releasing sample after stop (by pressing couple times stop) 2) set record and then quickly change it to overdub (by pressing overdub+start after record - when it countdown to 4 beats before starts the sequence).

might be faulty ram as well... if you take it out and try working with that does it still freeze?

Its hard to tell, it didnt happened often. So even if i remove the ram it may work for a month, and then when i put it back may hang (but it may be not a source of the problem). The best part is that after that fail I tried to recreate that beat. It happens again! 3rd time i was saving whole project every 10 minutes...

neva
edit: maybe one time on 5 years

Mine rarely freezes.I noticed when I do too much loading of various sequences in a given project it may freeze.Like I said, very very rare.

The positives outweigh the negatives.Glad I stuck with the 500.

Yes it freezed up on me once and that was the first 3 weeks I had it.

Since I been here on the forum I've heard about freezes and crashes with the 500 but it happens at least once or twice in the machine's lifetime.

Usual culprits are bad RAM, a bad CF card, and bent pins within the 500's CF card reader slot. One member had a couple of bent pins from inserting and removing the cards on a frequent basis that he took some tweezers and bent them to their normal position and it was fine again.

very rarely. and its only happened when i remove the usb cable, it has gotten frozen on the 'usb connected' screen.

besides that, nothing like you showed in the video has ever happened to me. but if it did i would be super annoyed haha.

It only happens when I have a lot of samples loaded into internal memory

Think I'm going to only sample the part of the song I'm really interested in instead of trying to chop down the whole song

Think I'm going to only sample the part of the song I'm really interested in instead of trying to chop down the whole song

good idea , that's why it's good to sample from vinyl

my 500 never freezes, well, it did once... i even do that same thing you do where i hit the buttons a lot, and fast.. also sometimes i load it up with programs and samples to the max, usually when im jamming with a friend ill just keep pulling stuff up into it or sampling till it tells me i am out of memory and it still seems to work fine. ive had my 500 since 08 and i bought it 2nd hand off craigslist my ram is akai ram and my cf card is a 16gig

ukaef wrote:

try reinitialising your MPC500

done that 100 times

Do you have the memory upgrade?

Yes, i got 128mb

Has yours always done that or is it a more recent development?
Did you buy it new or used?
What OS version is it running?
What have you tried?

I bought it 4/5 years ago, os 1.31, I try to slow down when making beats, but sometimes it is hard. It happens when Im pushing too much buttons at a time. This time it happens when I want to 1) cutoff the releasing sample after stop (by pressing couple times stop) 2) set record and then quickly change it to overdub (by pressing overdub+start after record - when it countdown to 4 beats before starts the sequence).

I would also suspect the ram especially if it isn't the Akai stick.
Don't get me wrong you can get others to work but you have to still wonder how effect that particular stick may be.