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By sleepless Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:19 pm
I was messing around and made a real quick beat. I saved it into the memory card. came back and loaded it up to listen to it, but didnt hear anything. Did i save it wrong? Kinda stuck. Peace and Thanx

By _Stilo_ Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:44 pm
Which kind of MPC?

By sleepless Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:36 am
MPc1000 my fault
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By Smoove03 Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:37 am
you probably want to save all sequences and songs as well as all programs and sounds.

im using the 2000, but im sure its similar on your model

By _Stilo_ Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:02 am
Yes, the next question would be, what did you save exactly?

And what exactly did you try to load back? Project file? Programs and Sounds? Sequences and Songs? Sequences don't work without loading the associated Programs and Sounds for example.

For the future, there should be a "Save Entire Memory" function on the 1000 as well, that takes care of saving everything. But better create a folder for each project/beat you're working on, and save that in there.

By OcolopuS Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:32 am
i've had this same problem with my mpc1000, infact i made a thread and everything but no-one responded.
i use the "save entire memory" function after naming the program and sequence. when i come back the sequence is often missing or replaced by another tracks sequence or its the program thats wrong...
my theory is that its my shitty card (its some cheap 1gb card) but i wanna find out if this is happening to anyone else

P.S. i'm running os 2.1

By _Stilo_ Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:39 am
Do you use individual folders for your projects?

In all cases create an own folder for any project, so you can be sure everything you need is in one place, and nothing gets overwritten unintentionally.

If you have the same name for your programs in another project, and you keep saving everything in the root folder, of course they will be overwritten by the next projects files. Also, I think the ALL_SEQ&SONGS file always has the same name when you save Entire Memory, so that will be overwritten as well.

So: Always use individual folders!

By rza5000 Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:22 pm
lets remember if you are using the 1000 you cant create folders. You just have to save the sounds you used as a program and then save your sequence. Then when you want to hear it again after you turn it off and back on just simply load that sequence up with the program. Sequence is all the note information and the program you saved is where all the sounds are so when the two come together they will then play your beat. Aslo note that usually with the mpc You have to buy other equipment so get a job if you dont have one. Are you can always bootleg software so you wont have to buy any more hardware. Mpc and midi controller keyboard with the right software will have you straight

By _Stilo_ Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:27 pm
rza5000 wrote:lets remember if you are using the 1000 you cant create folders.

At least with the latest OS you can.

rza5000 wrote:Aslo note that usually with the mpc You have to buy other equipment so get a job if you dont have one. Are you can always bootleg software so you wont have to buy any more hardware.

Now that's some serious advice :roll: