4.78 dropped the ball!

Yo I was working on this track to sell to this cat and we had sat down and listened to the final version of the sequences before I prepared to finish it. I turned off my Mpc for a hot minute then turned it back on and when I loaded the song back up the f*ckin basslines we're missing! There wasnt any ghost file data or anything like it was never recorded. I needed that fedia holmes! Now I have to replay the entire bassline for this damn song for the third time.

Is there anyway I can save the midi data separately to my flashcard so that in the event that something similar happens I can just midi everything back up and record? Currently I sample my fantom and my secret weapon into my mpc after playing them while midi'd up.

Yeah the last two OS's aren't stable. And here I though JJ was getting closer to making the OS more and more bug free. JJ is busy creating more problems right now. I'm annoyed by this at the moment. I think with the next few updates things will get back to being more stable...at least I hope so, cause this instability is flowers annoying.

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Yeah, I am also more interested in a stable OS than more features cause the same thing happened to me last night. Recording some midi data, went to edit in the grid/midi edit area and all of a sudden my E Piano (midi data) wouldnt play no more. the data was still there but not one thing I did brought it back, and I tried EVERYTHING!!!!
Time for a stable OS. I've had my fun with the updates and all that but a stable OS would be the best for me right now.
But I would like to say that i will stick with JJ for a while until he achieves this. I support JJ and appreciate the features and understand that we are the tester and when we get features we might get bugs, but I'm more than happy with all the features that he's added so far. I dont need anymore. But we all need a stable OS.

Thank you JJ.

hum, i have been trying to warn people about that for months...

anyway, let JJ know. he will make a stable os only if more people ask for bug fixes rather than new features.

hereo wrote:Yeah, I am also more interested in a stable OS than more features cause the same thing happened to me last night. Recording some midi data, went to edit in the grid/midi edit area and all of a sudden my E Piano (midi data) wouldnt play no more. the data was still there but not one thing I did brought it back, and I tried EVERYTHING!!!!
Time for a stable OS. I've had my fun with the updates and all that but a stable OS would be the best for me right now.
But I would like to say that i will stick with JJ for a while until he achieves this. I support JJ and appreciate the features and understand that we are the tester and when we get features we might get bugs, but I'm more than happy with all the features that he's added so far. I dont need anymore. But we all need a stable OS.

Thank you JJ.

That describes exactly where I'm at...where I've been at for a few months too. I just want a stable and complete OS now. I'm a little sick of guinea pigging it.

What you talking 'bout Willis?

I've had no such problems. I use my MPC everyday all day. I use it for sending and receiving midi, sampling, syncing with Logic as Master, syncing with Reason and as a controller on the odd occasion.

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I first heard similar stuff from a guy called "romil" over at FPs, who was losing stuff too. And a few days ago I loaded a beat which I'm trying to finish for some time and realized, that a program was not loaded. But after loading the .prj file again, everything was aight again.

I'm switching back to the Akai OS.

I'm boycotting JJ, Akai, the internet, Heineken and Levis. In that order.

by SAVING ENTIRE MEMORY to a NEW or EXISTING folder and then LOADING that entire folder when i want to resume work, i've never once had problems with missing files since the NEW FOLDER/DIR ERROR bug was corrected

i don't know what saving techniques you guys use but the above works 100% of the time for me. i never use "save all seqs and songs" even if i didn't create any new samples in a session - i just overwrite.

also it's a good practice to do this: once you've been working on a song for a week (enough that you know it's a favorite, that you're gonna continue working on it in the future) create a MAIN folder and save drafts inside. hell, most of us have at least 20 gig hard drives in there anyway. save the draft as its own date so you have a journal of your progress on that beat and so you can keep your old stuff in case of emergency.

I had some troubles with lost data, too. And I always use Save Entire Memory.
Anyway, just like the new folder bug, things like that MUST NOT happen, no matter which save function you use.
I, too, prefer a stable OS over new features.

Good advice Nym. I save the Entire Memory when I save but for some reason before I even saved the file my midi data form my midi track got lost.

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i had some problems losing data too... from a faulty AC cable


been doing the whole memory dump to save my prj -- no problems yet!