Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
Byoekilla Wed May 26, 2004 5:42 pm
I'm interested because I have an MV-8000 and it take 2 years to boot up. By the time it's on I forget what the hell I wanted to record. The reason is the MV-8000 loads everything to memory. I was wondering how long does the MPC-4000 takes to boot up and do you have to do any fancy shutdown procedure to turn it off.

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By F.O.B Wed May 26, 2004 5:46 pm
About ten seconds without autoload. I just turn the power off when im done. Am I doing this wrong??
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By Reveal Wed May 26, 2004 5:47 pm
F.O.B wrote:About ten seconds without autoload. I just turn the power off when im done. Am I doing this wrong??



no as long as you save first (':lol:')
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By AWW_NAWW Wed May 26, 2004 7:36 pm
oekilla wrote:I'm interested because I have an MV-8000 and it take 2 years to boot up. By the time it's on I forget what the hell I wanted to record. The reason is the MV-8000 loads everything to memory. I was wondering how long does the MPC-4000 takes to boot up and do you have to do any fancy shutdown procedure to turn it off.

Thanks


It all depends on how much you are loading upit takes mine a while to load up but thats because I refuse to stream line and I want all I can get that I have

Byoekilla Wed May 26, 2004 8:01 pm
yeah but is it more than 2 minutes?
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By strongarmmusic Wed May 26, 2004 8:10 pm
my auto load folder is 340megs and it takes my 4k about 15minutes to load
By Altopiano Wed May 26, 2004 9:44 pm
strongarmmusic wrote:my auto load folder is 340megs and it takes my 4k about 15minutes to load


how many ram's you've got in yours?

Byoekilla Wed May 26, 2004 10:26 pm
15 minutes...DAMNNNNN
Ok, I don't feel that bad now. I'm doing about 1:50 secs to boot and 3:23 to shutdown on the MV-8000. Thats only 128MB. I'll just have to work around it.
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By MAD T Wed May 26, 2004 11:50 pm
damn 3:23 to shut down....i can shut down my MPC in .1 sec!!

Byoekilla Wed May 26, 2004 11:51 pm
lol :lol:
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By AWW_NAWW Wed May 26, 2004 11:51 pm
I THINK HE MEANS TO SAVE HIS WORK AND TURN IT OFF
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By Iceberg-Slim Thu May 27, 2004 12:17 am
are you sure 15 mins?, I havent noticed timing that long
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By ikke Thu May 27, 2004 2:51 am
strongarmmusic wrote:my auto load folder is 340megs and it takes my 4k about 15minutes to load


:shock: Whats in the 340megs folder? 50 different drumkits and some fully mapped piano programs? :?:

By boywithpez007 Thu May 27, 2004 6:47 am
I cant load everything on boot up, if im cruisin through some vinyls I've just picked up I load 1 program(4 samples)Kick, Snare, hats closed & open.

I need to have sht fresh or it fks my head editing sht an having to scroll through hundreds of samples that are from a couple of instrument programs.

Plus I couldnt wait 15 mins for my mpc to load!!!!!! I get itchy trigger fingers
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By strongarmmusic Thu May 27, 2004 11:53 am
my auto load contains alot of different shyt.... i have my 808 and 909pgm,my mini moog pgm, my m1 pgm, my grand piano off mic pgm, ect. not just drums, and the scrolling through samples problem i dont have cause as soon as i got my 4k i put together programs for my favorite and most used samples, got familiar, so now instead of scrolling i just pick programs... but yes my keyboard prgs are mapped.... and the 15min load time is long but i just turn it on first thing and then go eat be the time i eat and shower the beast is ready....but sometime when im using wax i just load some drums and bass...but whenim doing some r&b or gospel i load the autoload folder and im good .....and to be honest im working on sets to mimic the triton and phantom and then the motif and i have 400meg soon to top it off to 512mg 256+128+16=400