Longest you've ever left your MPC on?

Od3rus wrote:weeks, possibly months when i first got one to **** with. They are pretty **** rock solid, unless they get used in a place where someone can blow bonghits in them. =)

how bad is it to smoke in the same room as your mpc?

Isautner wrote:

Od3rus wrote:weeks, possibly months when i first got one to **** with. They are pretty **** rock solid, unless they get used in a place where someone can blow bonghits in them. =)

how bad is it to smoke in the same room as your mpc?

More likely to kill you than the MPC...

Isautner wrote:

Od3rus wrote:weeks, possibly months when i first got one to **** with. They are pretty **** rock solid, unless they get used in a place where someone can blow bonghits in them. =)

how bad is it to smoke in the same room as your mpc?

shit gets your faders all gunky. my boy's gotta clean his shit out every few months.

mmm...smoking inside.

my next place, ima definitely have my own private room for my studio so i can smoke the occasional stogie whilst workin.

i know its supposedly not good for electronics, but im a fiend.


.dope.

I leave my mpcs on almost all the time unless I go out of town. I'd rather buy a new screen than delete a beat by accident or wait to get an idea out. I leave my computers and hard drives on almost all the time too. Make sure your shit is on a battery backup power supply by APC or whoever. I got a big ass rackmount one and a big ass freestanding one that basically power my whole studio. They give a sinewave output on the power too so shit is mad clean.

can i test my baseball bat on your face?

Od3rus wrote:Stress test everything! =)

Dunno what all the fuss is about,
you boyz need to dry your wee baby eyes!

The MPC4000 can stay switched on continuously,
so long as you don't block the fan exhaust vent on the back!

It's power-up which actually stresses these things out the most.

I leave mine on for weeks at a time...Sometimes months...Actually, usually months...BUT, My screen is already gone...It is completely unreadable...So....The reason I do this is because my attention gets directed towards about 3 to 5 beats at a time...I got an XL...

If I make a beat really late at night, I usually leave it on until I get home from work the next day then I shut it off after I save the beat. I like to have a clear mind when I save my beats because I don't know the BEST way to save.

The argument for and against comes down to degradation due to constant voltage running through thse expensive circuits and chips vs. Shocking the cold circuits and chips with the surge of electricity which occurs whenever something is turned on when it is room tempature. Problem is the "Room" tempature" part. Much like putting a cold glass under hot water, it'll crack just like putting a hot glass under cold water. Over a period a time of this repeated on/off switching, silicon becomes brittle. Musicians who work in colder rooms because of a cold draft, or near a window have been known to leave there equipment on for the entire SESSION/project, however long that last, so as to avoid jolting there stuff time after time. Warmer rooms are less degrading to electronics and that is a fact. Best rule of thumb is keep room temp within a nirmal range (68 or better) and keep away from windows when in northern and colder climates.

Bad Juju wrote:The argument for and against comes down to degradation due to constant voltage running through thse expensive circuits and chips vs. ...

Mister JuJu, there is no "degradation" from a voltage "running through" (?! electric potential is applied ACROSS a conductor - current runs through...) electronic components,
not unless you're really blasting it with ohmic heating (which you're not)

Planet Earth already has a radial electric field of about 100V/m anyways - any changes in TTL circuits are very small in comparison, they make no difference.

I think the longest was like 2 days if that long.

i know the mpc can handle this, but what does it do to your electric bill when yall keep it on for weeks or months (the mpc in addition to the rest of your studio)


are your electric bills sky high?

yeah because the MPC4000 clearly consumes about 500 kW of power,
the equivelent of several electric cookers and a washing machine and dishwasher.
You can tell this by all the huge moving mechanical parts it contains,
(all those drums inside that need to be hit)
and the large temperatures it generates of several hundred degrees celcius, whilst "cooking" up beats.


NEXT WEEK ON SCIENCE 101:
- how to breathe by sucking air into your lungs
- how to avoid the lethal effects of gravity by avoiding walking out of 10th storey windows
- and other shit.

The display of my S 3200 begins to whistle after a couple of hours of running.
Thank whoever for it is able to be turned off seperately...
My MPC 60´s display has always been whistling, maybe it was crying about it´s broken floppy drive...
...What to do whith your crying baby? Sell it!
At least it lets you hear that it is alive!