I don’t keep track of it, but I own a lot music software and about 10-20% of it is unsigned. You have to pay Apple or at least go through a registration process etc. So a lot of updates from various companies are not signed. It’s never been an issue to me.

You have to sign it with the ilok manager..The limit is 2 licenses..

Not the thing he's talking about. On OSX Apple has developers submit their installers, and has them digitally "signed", if a developer hasn't submitted an app to Apple or is still waiting on digital signing you will have to right click an installer to open the file and install the application.

Allowing Third Party Applications to Install on a MacBook | IT Services

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.

Apps/Installers do not have to be submitted to Apple to be signed and do not have to wait for digital signing. What you mention above is Notarizing which is something different.

You can sign them yourself, you just need an Apple developer Id in order to do this.

Signing allows the user to see exactly who developed to code, if there are any changes to the code then the signature fails. i.e. Someone has tampered with the file or it is corrupted.

The 2.3 firmware update was signed correctly, the previous 2.2 installer was signed correctly but the 2.3 installer is failing as the signing is invalid.

p.s. I really wouldn't install unsigned software on your mac or pc. There is a good reason why Apple and Microsoft try their best to stop you doing this.

Now i did it

i just pushed the button and bought a Live

I just got the gold edition last week and I’ve made about 10 songs with it already. It’s very stable, and works excellent in standalone and controller mode. You can’t tell the difference. Even with Ableton Sync it syncs perfectly. Being able to control all my plugins within the MPC software from the controller is really great.

I’m glad I waited until most of the bugs were sorted out. It’s really the best piece of equipment I ever bought and I doubted it for a very long time. Yes, I was a hater. Now a believer.

Great. Let's wait for all bugs sorted out completely and then we can fly with it.
Maybe also a good Phaser?

From Apple Anyway, you're of course free to suspect that tiny music developers either having issues with signing, or doing it wrong for their installer, might possibly be a trojan horse etc. if you want, but IMO even more developers will have problems with notarization than they do with simple signing. Plus the amount of installers that will fail because of notarization is going to be huge soon, since developers will have to go through their old installers to notarize them, and we're talking about people who don't write or update manuals. It's a wash, there are going to be a lot of little problems with security solutions like this, and of course tinier developers of music software etc. are going to have some issues with it. It makes sense to have security, it's just up to you how far you take it, some people disable Java and Flash etc.

As I said I was not talking about notarisation, I was talking about signing. It is a totally different thing.

I am talking about signing which proves the executable code you are running comes from the source you expect it to and has not been tampered with. This is not an "Apple" thing, windows code is signed, websites are signed!

You brought up notarisation thinking it was the same as signing, it isn't!

I am against Apples notarisation, it is just them trying to get developers to go through the same hoops for all apple software as they would expect from software coming from their app stores, it is a control thing not a security thing.

Apple's always been control freaks about developers. In the beginning, it was pay to play, starting with the hardware and following with the development kits. It was spendy stuff. When Xcode, I thought maybe they were loosening up. Until the App Store.

Yearly registration at $100 is not the end of the world. You get your signing and you have access to sell on the app store, which for some, makes life easier, for others--like plugin developers--it makes things much harder. Apple would love it if they could get their vig out of every bit of code sold, same as Microsoft. Thing is, I trust Mr Random Q. Developer, Esq., with free downloads more than I trust 95% of the junk on the App Store. That stuff is serious garbage, often repackaged and sold under a new name and developer, even though it's obviously the same program as some other POS, just with a different color scheme.

Cool!! How are you digging the Gold edition?

Can someone help me out?

I run midi clock through the MPC to an Elektron Analog Keys. All my delay lines are screwy. When I hit play start the delays get all warbled and the BPM is always +/- 1 I guess because I’m using to two sequencers. I change patterns by sending a midi note to the multi map I set up on the Keys on the first beat of every pattern.

Should I just merge sequences and nudge those midi notes that start the patterns slightly ahead of time? Would that work as a solution? Is there a better one?

Personally, I'm just getting this whole argue with people online for whatever reason from you. Sorry if I mixed them up, doesn't matter in the end, I've had signing fail on any number of installers from tiny developers, it's easy to fail security tests, that's a fact by default. I do not worry about FXPansion or some other cross platform developers installers failing signing, right clicking allows you to instal. I get worrying about it, I do not, that was all I'm trying to say.

All I was saying by bringing up notarization is that there will be dozens more installers you will now not be installing because they're failing, you're original post was this worry about it, I'm not that worried about it. More than once has an installer had to be right clicked, and a developer has said online at places like this and KVR to not worry about it.

If anyone is needing some help with Autosampler, I've just published an Autosampler tutorial taking you step-by-step through the process of making a 'standalone' version of a Hybrid 3 bass patch:

MPC Bible Tutorial: Clone Plugins & Synths with Autosampler

Have any of you guys had any success with using note repeat for external midi triggering. What I mean is I want to use note repeat, but alter the pad pressure to control velocity, the same thing you'd do for an internal drum program, (yes that works). What I'm getting for midi triggers is consistent velocity, mutually exclusive of pad pressure, so all my hihats have the same velocity for a 1/16th pattern. Note repeat as above worked fine in the mpc 1000 (JJOS). Any thoughts?

i suspect that since you're using a midi program i assume, the note repeat button is acting as the arp.

Dan. I got bored asking questions and ordered one. It arrives in one hour. Can you have all the bugs fixed by then? Thanks

hey, so a tip some or all of you may not be aware of:

when you load a sample to a pad, a filter is automatically assigned to the pad as well. The default is the 2p lowpass, but you can change that.

some of the filters are analog modeled, and (like the old s950 filters, the s1000, MPC 2000xl etc) even at 127, they still affect the sound.

if you go to preferences / project defaults and scroll down, you can set the default filter.

if you want no filter, set it to off.

also, another tip, if you wanna emulate the MPC 2000xl filter to get that raspy hi hat sound it had, use the 2p lowpass filter, and set the resonance to 1.

MPC 2000xl had a bug where the filter resonance was never fully closed.

Great tip.
Mr. dan, sorry for being intrusive, I really appreciate Mpc Live development, but I miss a good Phaser.
I am on the way to buy an external one since the Live one is almost unuseable for me.
Any chance for an improvement so I don't waste money for an external one?
I think a good phaser needs at least some resonance and more stage
Live's one is very weak at that.
Thanks so much.
Long life to MPC

I wasn't trying to argue, just trying to put some facts straight.

I'm very sorry that it came over that way, especially as you were helping me out.

I chose my words badly, sorry.

more of these tips!

Welcome to the club

This also occurs for a keygroup program. The drum program note repeat functions correctly. So Dan, what you're suggesting is that the arp is automatically engaging for midi and keygroup programs. I did check the arp setting and it was unchecked. Just to emphasise, in a drum program, using note repeat you can perform variation of velocity by applying pad pressure variation. In keygroups/midi progs using note repeat, the initial note on velocity does not vary with pad pressure.

Has anyone discovered an automation bug?.
Let's say you have a simple drum program, carry out some automation, perhaps track volume, looping a 2 bar pattern. On turnaround at 1.00, l get frequent audio artifacts, deleting automation has no effect , still get audio artifacts.

reported both via the MPC software:

- relative nudging only works while nudging on the touchscreen, NOT with the dial or +/- bottons: those butons still act the same as when 'absolute nudging' is set

- after selecting 'midi control' via the 'menu + pad 3' shortcut, it's impossible to use other 'menu + pad x' shortcuts!

after pressing menu, the menu page appears, but pressing the pads doesn't do anything...

the midi control mode is by design, as the pads are trapped for other midi tasks in that mode. unavoidable, Im afraid.

Sorry for posting again but the automation and audio artifacts is really bugging me, do l wonder of it is my unit or common knowledge?

try going into lit edit and see if something got mistakenly recorded. the only issue ive heard of automation involves XYFX, and that will be fixed in 2.4

Checked, it is highly reproducible, take a simple drum program, automate volume, the pops will be heard once loop goes back to start. Deleting automation does not fix it
checked list editor, nothing but notes present. I really like this mpc but this automation artifact is a turn off, can't imagine it being hardware related?

yeah, I understand the pads are used for other tasks IN 'midi control' mode.

But if you press "menu" again, to EXIT the 'MC' mode, you clearly see the menu-page already and not the 'MC' screen anymore.

That means to me that 'MC' mode succesfully has been left and you're BACK in the MENU screen, from where you can choose the other modes, on screen or via the pads like it should.

I don't understand the pads don't become available again when exiting 'MC' mode and fixing this wouldn't be possible at all...