MPC5000 reviews, bug reports and fellow user support on the most recent standalone, hardware MPC from Akai
By sparco Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:12 pm
guys im very new to the forum so forgive me in advance.. am also a v happy owner of my new mpc5k :mrgreen: but have been baffled by a few quirks in the grid edit window which are really annoying. ive only owned it for a week and might be doing something wrong, but here is a list of problems that im having in detail:

1) when clicking copy (on a single note) and then moving along the grid and attempting to paste it does one of the following:

a) paste in the right place (usually doesnt work! :x )
b) paste in the wrong place (usually a few notes early to where i want it to place)
c) click paste and nothing happens (in which case i go back to the note and repeat the process! ??? )

2) i am desperately trying to copy a whole bar or a couple of bars of any given track in my sequence so that i dont have to re program the beats or synth notes over and over again.

so for example, create 1 bar containing 5 different tracks. I now want to copy this bar another 3 times to be left with a 4 bar sequence as an intro to my song. the same problems that ive listed above apply...

from reading the forums looks like this is a bug.. is there a way around this to speed up my work until new OS arrives? i shld prob look into step edit but not sure if this works for grouping which is what i want to do...

sorry for the long post... trying to be clear, any help wld be most appreciated thx
By ToOxSicK Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:55 pm
Grid edit is fuked it never works after creating a program,new os2 should fix that bug i think.
By sparco Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:11 pm
ok cool,

so its not just me with the problem then... so how do i get around the problem? eg i want to copy the initial 2 bars of sequence 1 to make it a 10 bar sequence... and then i want to copy the track containing the drum beat from sequence 1 into sequence 2.

can this only be done using step editor and/or actually re-recording... very very annoying. ???
By ToOxSicK Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:36 am
sparco wrote:ok cool,

so its not just me with the problem then... so how do i get around the problem? eg i want to copy the initial 2 bars of sequence 1 to make it a 10 bar sequence... and then i want to copy the track containing the drum beat from sequence 1 into sequence 2.

can this only be done using step editor and/or actually re-recording... very very annoying. ???


i just record everything sample-wise then on my drums set up i go to grid edit and am able to copy paste there and it's able to playback but if i go first to modify my samples it gets fuked up.
By sparco Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:47 am
ok got it to work... still not ideal but will have to do until v2 comes out... thanks for the feedback guys.