Forum to discuss all matters relating to the MPC1000 and MPC2500 operating systems created by 'JJ' (all versions).
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By THE ADVERSARY Sun May 20, 2007 11:05 pm
jahrome wrote:
THE ADVERSARY wrote:
Still it's funny because the 2500 is a good box because of the improvements, but would have been a great box if the existing features could have followed through.


Between the Akai and JJ OS, the MPC 2500 pretty much does everything you need a sampling drum machine/sampler to do. What existing features are you talking about?


Features directly from Akai.
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By jahrome Mon May 21, 2007 12:29 am
THE ADVERSARY wrote:
Features directly from Akai.

Such as? Creating folders and MTC slave?

Well, at least Alicia Keys love Akai products:

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By jahrome Mon May 21, 2007 2:12 am
As far as the loop issue...the problem seems to be with Play/Start button. When you hit that button, it will start where you have your loop point set to. If you just hit PLAY it will start from the current position of the sequence...in that case, have it at the first beat of the first bar. JJ is really good a fixing (and breaking sh!t) so describe it a little better and he may be able to fix it.
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By THE ADVERSARY Mon May 21, 2007 5:57 am
jahrome wrote:As far as the loop issue...the problem seems to be with Play/Start button. When you hit that button, it will start where you have your loop point set to. If you just hit PLAY it will start from the current position of the sequence...in that case, have it at the first beat of the first bar. JJ is really good a fixing (and breaking sh!t) so describe it a little better and he may be able to fix it.


It's wrong in the Akai OS for the 2500 as well.
Akai broke it first he just continued down the same path.
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By THE ADVERSARY Mon May 21, 2007 6:06 am
jahrome wrote:
THE ADVERSARY wrote:
Features directly from Akai.

Such as? Creating folders and MTC slave?


No like better scrolling on the TRIM screen, proper beat detection, cleaner methods of editing your slices, the simult sample trigger, just to name a few.
These are things that JJ added that Akai could have done just as easily while also taking care of issues that people have.

By Mike Feedback Tue May 22, 2007 2:01 am
THE ADVERSARY wrote:No like better scrolling on the TRIM screen, proper beat detection, cleaner methods of editing your slices, the simult sample trigger, just to name a few.
These are things that JJ added that Akai could have done just as easily while also taking care of issues that people have.


i think the scrolling in the trim screen sucks on both the Akai and JJ OS's... but i actually prefer the Akai over the JJ, because on the JJ if i have a long sample and i only need to adjust the end points by a little bit, i need to hit zoom like 20 times before it moves in single digit steps. that is just moronic. i end up saying forget it and settling for end points that aren't exactly where i would have wanted them.

they need to change it so it works like the 2000xl did with velocity sensitive scrolling. if you spin the data wheel slowly, it should move the end points in single digit steps. the faster you spin the data wheel, the larger the steps should become. zooming in should ONLY zoom in on the waveform, it should NOT affect the steps that the end points make.

that's my 2 cents and number 1 feature request.
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By jahrome Tue May 22, 2007 2:20 am
I agree. I do prefer editing on the 2000/2000XL. However, I have no problems editing with the 2500..Akai or JJ OS...
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By THE ADVERSARY Tue May 22, 2007 5:14 pm
We know they killed velocity trying to increase jog wheel life.
If they wanted the 2500 to be the best MPC ever as they claimed the original 2000 double jog wheel should have been used.
Since sample are just math I tend to enter number from the keypad and tweak them slightly.
I guess since I am still using some samplers that work only that way it still seems normal.
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By jahrome Tue May 22, 2007 10:21 pm
I don't recall Akai claiming the original 2000 is the best ever. It has more features then the MPCs before it and the 2500 adds several dozen more features than the 2000/2000XL in spite of a few missing features. Personally, I rather live the faults of the 2500 than going back to a 2000/2000XL.
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By THE ADVERSARY Wed May 23, 2007 1:03 am
jahrome wrote:I don't recall Akai claiming the original 2000 is the best ever. It has more features then the MPCs before it and the 2500 adds several dozen more features than the 2000/2000XL in spite of a few missing features. Personally, I rather live the faults of the 2500 than going back to a 2000/2000XL.



You remember when the 2500 came out that was all Akai kept saying The Best MPC ever
Remember the video where they demonstrated the 2500 and had the 4k pushed to the back?
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By jahrome Wed May 23, 2007 1:13 am
Akai was just quoting me from a testimonial........and the MPC 2500 still is the best MPC....
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By jahrome Mon May 28, 2007 3:34 pm
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I wonder why Ms. Keys in the picture above doesn't have the 8 output expansion card in the MPC 4000. Instead, she is using all 8 individual outs of the MPC 2500 instead. From the way they are connected, it appears that she is using the MPC 2500 to trigger and perhaps sequence the 4000.
By Penguin Republic Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:48 pm
THE ADVERSARY wrote:I tried to explain it to JJ but he didn't fully understand how it was supposed to work based on the earlier MPC's.
The only solution you currently have is to chop up your sequence.


I second this. I was also in touch with the JJ developers (about another issue) but they simply couldn't understand what I was talking about. After five mails I gave up.
By supreme7g Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:57 am
what is jj os for the 2500.
put me on!!!!!!!!!
By supreme7g Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:02 am
jahrome it seems like you know your shit....
i been down a long time owned and sold mpc 60,2000,200xl
just got a mpc 2500 can tell me in detail what is jj os.........

supreme - from wu -tang - sunz of man...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BcrOB5dC9c