Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
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By threshed Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:00 pm
illiac wrote:
well my 4000 doesn't crash.. when does yours?


-when I send sysex data into it from an Access Virus
-when I change note durations or quantize tracks that have very long note durations
-when I save directories to my PC or Mac using ak.sys, where the directories have a lot of files.

It doesn't crash every time I do those things of course, but often enough for it to be a pain in the neck. I really need for my sequencer to be able to handle sysex data; it's the only way I can save multis on the Virus. I've taken to using a QY700 for this task, but that requires recabling my MIDI stuff.

Honestly, there is no bright side to bugs that crash the machine. It's not really possible to whistle it off and write a tune or something: I'm in the middle of a recording session when it happens. It stinks and I wish that Akai would fix these bugs, which I don't think would be very difficult for them.

I know lots of folks don't run into this, but I don't think I'm doing unreasonable things with the machine, just stressing it hard like all gear gets stressed in a pro setting.

-illiac


oh word.. that sucks. i just keep to the basics with my mpc and have it synced to nuendo so anything more extensive than midi notation involving my virus i do within nuendo and not the mpc ever since i noticed some lagtime in the mpc when i edit samples while a sequence is playing. i dont want to murder the little cpu in the damn thing. so i just use it for what it can do.

By Renich Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:44 am
It's been a looong time since this post started... I wonder if we will get anywhere with this?
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By mp3 Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:42 am
I'm considering a 4000 but I'm getting cold feet just thinking about bugs but anyway:

if Akai was out of business and nobody was interested in buying their intellectual property then maybe... maybe... they would consider open sourcing their code, even that's a long shot. As an operating company, doing that would be suicide. You gotta think, they're still using that code in their current products. At least parts of it. Prolly most of it.

Now, as far as them fixing the OS, unless they stand to make some major money out of it, they ain't gonna do it. period, that's the way it goes.
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By feline1 Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:15 am
probably ALL of it :lol:

By Renich Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:12 pm
I really am trying to get the necessary skill to do this myself. I'm already reading some C++ books and trying to understand the linux kernel development.

There is also this guy that said something about him being able to develop an OS...

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=625255

By renegadebliss Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:05 pm
Renich wrote:I really am trying to get the necessary skill to do this myself. I'm already reading some C++ books and trying to understand the linux kernel development.

There is also this guy that said something about him being able to develop an OS...

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=625255



Hi, I'm not a coder by any means, but I do know that there are several ports of Linux already for the StrongArm architecture.... You might want to look into those, so that you aren't starting from scratch:

http://www.linux-arm.org/
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/docs/whatis.php
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/


Dave

By Renich Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:41 am
Sorry, I just fixed this... bad premissions... hehe

Check it out now.

By Renich Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:02 am
Ummm... I didn't see it all but... what does this have to do with the topic???
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By jahrome Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:49 pm
Just a commercial break about a producer that makes a good living off of using the MPC 4000 :D
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By muscle Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:14 pm
Im studying programming in school right now. I would like to help if there is a 2000 classic project.