Meet my new object of desire
The new Akai MPC1000:
http://www.pek.ch/images/MPC1000-lg.jpg
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AKAI Professional has introduced the MPC1000 Music Production Center, the latest addition of the MPC product line.
The unit includes a large graphic display, MPC-style pressure and velocity drum pads, large RAM capacity, and USB "Mass Storage Class Support.?
Other features on the MPC1000 include two Q-Link sliders controlling filter cutoff, pitch, layering, attack, and decay, two stereo effects (Chorus, Flanger, Phase shifter, Tremolo, Flying pan, Reverb) and a 4-band EQ and compressor master effect.
The MPC1000 comes standard with 16MB of RAM expandable to 128 MB with the optional EXM128 and data can be saved to Compact Flash Memory cards with a capacity of up to 2GB, transferred via USB directly to your PC or MAC.
The MPC1000 is the smallest Akai Professional MPC to date and has an MSRP (U.S.) of $995.
For more info go to http://www.akaipro.com
also http://www.mpc1000.com & http://www.mpc-tutor.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4365 for more info
It will be mine.
Tiger's most bangin beats @this moment:
Ludacris- Stand Up (producer: Kanye West)
Loon ft. Mario Winans (producer ???? Bad Boy)
Talib Kweli- Guerilla Monsoon Rap (producer: Kanye West)
Kanye West- Through The Wire (producer: Kanye West)
Skillz- Off The Wall (producer: Timbaland)
Mod Edit - made it a link, your image was too big. 800x600 is the max, please. - murbot
http://www.pek.ch/images/MPC1000-lg.jpg
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AKAI Professional has introduced the MPC1000 Music Production Center, the latest addition of the MPC product line.
The unit includes a large graphic display, MPC-style pressure and velocity drum pads, large RAM capacity, and USB "Mass Storage Class Support.?
Other features on the MPC1000 include two Q-Link sliders controlling filter cutoff, pitch, layering, attack, and decay, two stereo effects (Chorus, Flanger, Phase shifter, Tremolo, Flying pan, Reverb) and a 4-band EQ and compressor master effect.
The MPC1000 comes standard with 16MB of RAM expandable to 128 MB with the optional EXM128 and data can be saved to Compact Flash Memory cards with a capacity of up to 2GB, transferred via USB directly to your PC or MAC.
The MPC1000 is the smallest Akai Professional MPC to date and has an MSRP (U.S.) of $995.
For more info go to http://www.akaipro.com
also http://www.mpc1000.com & http://www.mpc-tutor.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4365 for more info
It will be mine.
Tiger's most bangin beats @this moment:
Ludacris- Stand Up (producer: Kanye West)
Loon ft. Mario Winans (producer ???? Bad Boy)
Talib Kweli- Guerilla Monsoon Rap (producer: Kanye West)
Kanye West- Through The Wire (producer: Kanye West)
Skillz- Off The Wall (producer: Timbaland)
Mod Edit - made it a link, your image was too big. 800x600 is the max, please. - murbot
Comments
Originally posted by Moogs
Just buy a midi keyboard and Reason instead.
midi keyboard and Logic. Reason's sequencer is horrid, and what's midi without Logic?
MPC's are great for doing percussion, but I'm too lazy to deal with controllers most of the time so I generally just do it in the matrix editor.
Go to the boot scoot n saloon or somethin instead of hangin on my nut sack fool.
Honestly, TigerWoods99...that machine looks (looks mind you) like what I'd find at a Kraftwerk garage sale...
Oh and mods, sorry bout the image being too big...my mistake.
a must have for the aspiring Hip-hop producer.
the 2000XL is really sick too, I wish I had a zip drive.
the 4000 is insane though, that thing is just a beast and a half.
this 1000 model looks pretty neat, kind of stripped down but it should get the job done. 64 meg flash cards! hehehe, my MPC runs on floppys and has 32 megs of ram
official site: http://www.akaipro.com/us/mpc1k.html
BTW, I use Reason 2.5 currently for my beats, but it is incredibly wimpy compared to the MPC2000, whose sampler and sequencer are excellent, especially for hip hop.
now a days you can get the 2000 for like $600 on ebay or less even.
but, it's not really worth it, while it is still a great machine, the XL is by far superior in just about every respect.
the zip drive is the biggest thing though, on ONE zip disc you can store thousands of samples and sounds. not too mention all your sequences and songs. but also the XL is a lot "faster" in that, it boots in less time, it loads samples in less time, it saves in less time..etc.
it has an adjustable screen which is cosmetic,but very useful.
that's about it really, in terms of noticable differences.
You could get a used XL for a $1000 or so a little more if to get the internal zip drive.
the cheapest 4000 model I've seen was $1999 for the bare-bones LE model.
the MPC 1000 will be about $850 so it will trump the XL in price, but not by much however the USB ports on the MPC1000 would be incredibly useful if you have a laptop.
reason is great, but not for hip hop...it has some good drums, once you put effects and compression on them. but it what it really lacks is a way to sample from ANY source, like you can with the MPC, that's just golden.
most of my MPC beats are cut from old vinyl, just cut up a 2 second snippet, or snag a quick horn sound, then tweak it to all hell. That's a sure fire way to get a bumping groove that you can rap too. But with reason, you have to really work extra hard to get around not having that ability, and even then your beats lack that rawness that you gain from sampling vinyl or whatever with a mic.
Originally posted by alcimedes
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I personally prefer MPC beat making to something like reason by a long shot. though I'm sure some other computer solutions might be better than reason(logic..I'm looking at you here) but I'd still prefer an MPC.
probably because I'm well versed in how they work, and am very used to working with pads and not keyboards.
I just showed my brother the MPC1000, I'm thinking I might want to replace our MPC 2000 with the 1000 because it interfaces with the computer for use as a storage dump, which is really really useful.
who is the girl with the blue panties?
she looks knocked out
This MPC1000 is starting to look like its pretty good..wonder when Sam Ash or Guitar Center will get them in...
http://www.edirol.com/products/info/pcra30.html
I want some feedback as to whether this product looks good or not...I think it goes for around 300 something, so of course it isnt gonna be a Korg Triton or anything but I dont have that kinda budget right now. This is also something I am considering since I need to replace my keyboard.