Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Lutfij]

Speaking of Teenage Engineering, I was very interested in picking up the Computer-1;

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a mini-ITX pc chassis

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but I saw the reviews on the case and I felt it was too many compromises for a case of that style. Much like an Apple product, you give up so much to gain what can only amount to eye candy. To add, the area I live in is very dusty, don't want to sing Sting/Cheb Mami's Desert Rose while I clean the innards out every so often.

 

[Charagma]

I think the MIDI in/out is for playing it directly off the pads, while not hooked up to a PC. I saw a tiktok video of a guy who had the MPD226 hooked up to what looked like a record player but I assume is like a "digital sampler" - it had a spinning platter but no record on it. I think you load sounds to it and can play with them like you are scratching real vinyl. He used those two together and had it plugged straight to some speakers using the midi output.

I also saw someone have it plugged straight into a Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator and that was very cool.... though those are pretty impractical besides just being toys to play with.

Would not know. In my head.........A midi port is essentially a DATA port. Same as USB, but Midi is mono-directional, so you end up with a Midi in and a Midi out.

Looking at the back of your unit, I see is 3 DATA ports which to me says, "Endless possibilities". E.g. Having the unit linked to the PC via USB, having the MIDI out run through a compressor and from the compressor back to the PC to have the same beat but different "Vibe" on separate channels or even having a keyboard on the midi in and the drum unit syncing to whatever I am sending it with the PC just being used as a "Recorder" The possibilities of having 3 ports is pretty much endless........in my head. I might be looking at it wrong.

The no record turn table is possibly a Dj controller but one without a "Beat" generator. It makes sense that you can add something like a Drum controller to it to make different beats etc on mixes live while on stage.

Any Idea how much the unit is pulling on your USB port? Recently had a problem with an extra keyboard (COD keyboard for games) and realised with everything I have running on my USB my mouse started to move erratic. Only after a lot of fidgeting realised my USBs just cannot supply the power to everything I am running. Now just have the basics on the USBs.

EDIT: LMAO the PO35 seems like the kind of thing I would buy but $99 and working exchange rate I can buy a MK3 61key. LMAO But it's just a side note but something that I would sit with and fidget with endlessly.

 

[Zloth]

have you tried making an installer on USB, and running setup from inside File exploder to update the install from the USB? That is how I normally get them unless it shows up for me on Windows Update.

It shows up for me on Windows Update. There's some update for 24H2 that fails and, when it does, it offers to let me use Windows Update. When I do that, it downloads, starts to install, gets 27% done, and fails out.

The main cumulative update stuff got through, so I'm not in a big rush.

Strange, I haven't heard much screaming about W10 updates yet. I expected much complaining about that. I guess Microsoft isn't forcing it yet.

 

[Lutfij]

I've had Windows 10/11 not want to update a couple of times, when I hit check for updates. Instead I left it alone and apparently over time it did it's thing int he background, unbeknownst to me.

I'd keep a bootable USB installer handy if I were you in case that issue you're having is foreshadowing of a corrupt OS.

 

[Colif]

If its an update that keeps failing, you may not get to the point where win 11 will just install the update.

I have been in the position like that before and only fix was a repair install. If you can get a copy of win 11 24H2 installer, you could try a repair install. They basically install windows over top of itself, you lose all the cumulative updates but its one of those that caused the problem you are having

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the link on that page to win 11 probably only has 25H2 so you need the installer from elsewhere

It won't work with the 25H2 installer as the ISO needs to match the version number installed.

 

[Charagma]

If its an update that keeps failing, you may not get to the point where win 11 will just install the update.

I have been in the position like that before and only fix was a repair install. If you can get a copy of win 11 24H2 installer, you could try a repair install. They basically install windows over top of itself, you lose all the cumulative updates but its one of those that caused the problem you are having

[Article] How to: Perform a Repair Upgrade Using the Windows 11 or Windows 10 ISO file - Microsoft Q&A

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the link on that page to win 11 probably only has 25H2 so you need the installer from elsewhere

It won't work with the 25H2 installer as the ISO needs to match the version number installed.

Not sure but wouldn't the DISM and SCANNOW commands work in this case? Let windows repair everything it should and basically have a clean slate on settings? Not always easy to find a Windows installer disc,

 

[Colif]

dism/sfc could help but I assumed he has tried that already

I just had an interesting experience. Windows Home tab on File Exploder wouldn't finish loading so I ran
sfc/scannow in Terminal (Admin) and it found corrupted files
So a restart can help if that happens and what do you know, it did. Home works now

I then ran
Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth
in Terminal (admin)
Ideally it makes more sense to run them in the opposite order but I didn't think it would find anything. DISM came up clean.


The ideal order is:

1. right click start button
2. choose Terminal (admin)
3. If it doesn't open as Powershell, click the down arrow in the title row and choose it from the list
4. copy/paste this command into window: (I have found copy, right click on terminal pastes it)
5. Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth
6. and press enter
7. Then type SFC /scannow
8. and press enter
9. Restart PC if SFC fixes any files as some fixes require a restart to be implemented

First command repairs the files SFC uses to clean files, and SFC fixes system files
SFC = System File Checker. First command runs DISM - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/what-is-dism?view=windows-11