Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Kemiko Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:08 am
I posted a few days ago about a song that got deleted. Now it seems this has happened to 4 or 5 different songs AT LEAST! wtf is happening? What could be the cause for this type of problem? I have a 100mb zip drive and an mpc 2000xl.This only seems to be an issue when saving midi sequenced data.
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By Lampdog Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:52 am
What files do you save when you save a song? Give me specifics and details.
By Kemiko Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:27 am
Ok. I'm using the xl as my sequencer primarily, everything midi. Shift + save, under TYPE: Save All Sequences & Songs. Under File: the name of song. I pressed DO IT, I pressed SAVE in the Save All file window with File Name: listing the correct name of the song I was working on. In the File Exists screen I pressed RENAME then an error showed up way too quick for me to read accurately but it looked like it read FAT ERROR. And like that my song was gone.

Lampdog, From what I've read your understanding of this machine is insane. Any advice from you would be a huge help and greatly appreciated.

My brother gave me the old ass zip disk I been using for years and I think he had it and used it for years too. I don't know if that has anything to do with anything but when I searched the forum about this some people were talking about corrupted disks so I figured I'd mention that also.
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By Lampdog Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:18 am
Maybe you should try a fresh zip disk cause after years of use they get corrupt and sometimes for no reason. A reformat of that zip may help but no one knows if it will or for how long.

When you save you should save APS and ALL and each song/project in it's OWN folder so you have to rename anything.
Every project in it's OWN folder. Remember that. 2k uses partitions and 2kxl can use folders.

Get a usb zip drive on computer to format that zip disk fat/fat16.

On my 2kxl I've been through the standard floppy, upgraded to internal zip250 and now internal mcd, life is beautiful.

If you can get away from zip disks.
By Kemiko Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:57 am
So it did say FAT ERROR. Thanks for the advice and keep up the good work. If I was you I'd start an MPCU or something.
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By Lampdog Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:40 pm
Nah, too much work, lol.
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By FromthePantoL.A. Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:19 pm
Hey Kemiko , check this thread out if you havent already: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=102551

Get yourself that card reader and put your feet up.
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By Lampdog Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:50 am
FromthePantoL.A. wrote:Get yourself that card reader and put your feet up.
By Kemiko Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:41 am
I knew they were outdated. I had no idea they would delete content. So, yeah, wow...