Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
By NavNek Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:24 pm
A couple of weeks ago I was dumb enough to take my 2500 apart. Just for cleaning purposes and to see if there was a lot of dust on the pad sensors cause I thought they were'nt sensitive enough, cause I could not really bang out some drums without full level on. The velocityreaction was and still is bad and sometimes when I bang a pad I couldnt make the sound coming out with a higher velocity.

Now my jogwheel is f*ckin with me. It's not sensitive any more and sometimes I have to push the wheel really hard while turning it, to make it actually send out signals.

Also I experience troubles with my pads. Sometimes when I push, let's say pad 2, it occurs that also the sound under pad 6 is being played. A lot of the pads seem to have this problem now. Pad 7 is being played along pad 3 when I hit that. Pad 8 when pushing 4 etc.

Does anyone have an idea to handle this problem. Should I get new sensors for the pads? And what about the jogwheel.

Thanks
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By SimonInAustralia Thu Nov 21, 2013 5:05 pm
I would take it apart again, and reassemble it.

Make sure that the jogwheel fits correctly onto the encoder, you need to look into the underside of the jogwheel, and make sure the slots in the jogwheel fit correctly onto the protrusions on the outside of the encoder.

If you don't line up the jogwheel with the encoder correctly, it sits a little higher than it should, and rubs against the faceplate.
By NavNek Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:58 am
Yea I noticed the problem problems of the wheel rubbing against the faceplate. It really took me a while to get that thing fit.

Anyone ideas regarding the pads?