Unimpressed

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Unimpressed

By staticseven Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:04 pm
Righteo yes I'm new,
HELLO!
A few months ago a needed a new sampler for a one off gig so bought an MPC500. Rather regretting it now. Used to have an S3000xl and it worked a treat. This thing I HATE.

So its your job to help me fall in love with it. Can I ask a few questions?
* How the HELL do I stop it autoloading all the random hip hop samples at the start?
* Why can't I delete them?
* I've updated to OS 1.31 and everything doesn't seem to work as well. Anyway to go back to 1.0?
* I've been creating simple 16/44 wavs from ableton that are all time correct and dropping them onto the card. Worked like a treat in the past but now only a few actually appear. The rest are sat there and play fine is anything else except the MPC but half the samples the MPC refuses to read.
* Why can't you do a one shot pad that'll loop constantly instead of having to hold a note on pad?

Grrr to akai!

But seriously all help is really welcome.
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Re: Unimpressed

By Lampdog Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:18 pm
So its your job to help me fall in love with it.
No, it's not.

* How the HELL do I stop it autoloading all the random hip hop samples at the start?
By going into the manual, and/or search here on the forums, it's been answered in both
forum and manual.

* Why can't I delete them?
Maybe overwrite with a blank folder, it's been answered here also, just gotta be willing to search out the answer.

* I've been creating simple 16/44 wavs from ableton that are all time correct and dropping them onto the card. Worked like a treat in the past but now only a few actually appear. The rest are sat there and play fine is anything else except the MPC but half the samples the MPC refuses to read.
Check the half that don't work, resave as the proper wav format. 44khz/16bit. Try again.

* Why can't you do a one shot pad that'll loop constantly instead of having to hold a note on pad?
So sequence it that way, then you don't have to hold the pad forever and three days.

Grrr to akai!
Grrr to you for not getting into the manual, maybe.
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Re: Unimpressed

By Ill-Green Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:24 pm
That black book that came with the MPC500, thats the instructional manual :shock:

Read it like a man!
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Re: Unimpressed

By Explicit- Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:35 am
Lampdog wrote:So its your job to help me fall in love with it.
No, it's not.

* How the HELL do I stop it autoloading all the random hip hop samples at the start?
By going into the manual, and/or search here on the forums, it's been answered in both
forum and manual.

* Why can't I delete them?
Maybe overwrite with a blank folder, it's been answered here also, just gotta be willing to search out the answer.

* I've been creating simple 16/44 wavs from ableton that are all time correct and dropping them onto the card. Worked like a treat in the past but now only a few actually appear. The rest are sat there and play fine is anything else except the MPC but half the samples the MPC refuses to read.
Check the half that don't work, resave as the proper wav format. 44khz/16bit. Try again.

* Why can't you do a one shot pad that'll loop constantly instead of having to hold a note on pad?
So sequence it that way, then you don't have to hold the pad forever and three days.

Grrr to akai!
Grrr to you for not getting into the manual, maybe.

Read this again staticseven!!! ^^^
It might help.

Lamp is a post block. You answered every FVCKN question!!!
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Re: Unimpressed

By Menco Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:31 am
Explicit- wrote:Lamp is a post block. You answered every FVCKN question!!!


Still one left:


staticseven wrote:* I've updated to OS 1.31 and everything doesn't seem to work as well. Anyway to go back to 1.0?


Try to reinstall, Maybe this will solve ur sample problem as well.
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Re: Unimpressed

By Lampdog Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:35 am
poundaproblem wrote:c*ck blockin I tell ya

L'n MAO right about now.

Explicit- wrote:Lamp is a post block.

L'n MAO, again.

Re: Unimpressed

By Destinite Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:56 pm
I had questions 1, 2, and 4 myself when I got my 500. I haven't even cracked the manual open - I figured those things out on my own in about 10 minutes.

Re: Unimpressed

By bedouin Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:39 pm
Menco wrote:Try to reinstall, Maybe this will solve ur sample problem as well.


Or clear all settings like Akai tells you to after an OS update. A lot has changed since 1.0 . . .

Re: Unimpressed

By brazeca Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:53 pm
As I can see nothing has changed, people post same questions again and again...
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Re: Unimpressed

By inflict3 Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:06 am
ha ha ha,. why does everyone gotta hate on the 500 before they learn how to use it,. our job is not to help you, if you wanna pay us, well maybe we can talk,.,. or maybe if you type in the same questions in on google, myou might find some info, that is if you misplaced ur manual
:roll:

Re: Unimpressed

By cda Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:47 am
staticseven wrote:Righteo yes I'm new,
HELLO!
A few months ago a needed a new sampler for a one off gig so bought an MPC500. Rather regretting it now. Used to have an S3000xl and it worked a treat. This thing I HATE.



Well if you think the s3000xl is so great go and buy another one and stop bitching you **** knobber.

Ooh - word filter. Replace **** with f u c k i n g

Re: Unimpressed

By SNMTK Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:59 am
cda wrote:
staticseven wrote:Righteo yes I'm new,
HELLO!
A few months ago a needed a new sampler for a one off gig so bought an MPC500. Rather regretting it now. Used to have an S3000xl and it worked a treat. This thing I HATE.



Well if you think the s3000xl is so great go and buy another one and stop bitching you **** knobber.

Ooh - word filter. Replace **** with f u c k i n g


hahaha
+50
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Re: Unimpressed

By Tracks Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:28 am
Explicit- wrote:
Lampdog wrote:So its your job to help me fall in love with it.
No, it's not.

* How the HELL do I stop it autoloading all the random hip hop samples at the start?
By going into the manual, and/or search here on the forums, it's been answered in both
forum and manual.

* Why can't I delete them?
Maybe overwrite with a blank folder, it's been answered here also, just gotta be willing to search out the answer.

* I've been creating simple 16/44 wavs from ableton that are all time correct and dropping them onto the card. Worked like a treat in the past but now only a few actually appear. The rest are sat there and play fine is anything else except the MPC but half the samples the MPC refuses to read.
Check the half that don't work, resave as the proper wav format. 44khz/16bit. Try again.

* Why can't you do a one shot pad that'll loop constantly instead of having to hold a note on pad?
So sequence it that way, then you don't have to hold the pad forever and three days.

Grrr to akai!
Grrr to you for not getting into the manual, maybe.

Read this again staticseven!!! ^^^
It might help.

Lamp is a post block. You answered every FVCKN question!!!



lamp tends to put alot of nails in the coffin really early when it comes to some threads. Especially ones where some sort of life lesson comes.
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