4000 Keyboard capabilities

Can an expert please advise me if the mpc 4000 would be capable of fulfilling my needs as a live sampler keyboard brain?

I have all my synths sampled note by note as wav files which I'd store on the 4000.
Can I connect two MIDI keyboards to play these? Even splitting a keyboard to get different sounds for different halves of the keyboards? Each sound routed to different hardware outputs.

Then can I be using the pads on the mpc to trigger yet another bank of samples at the same time?
Also I'd need to be able to swap patches for different songs.

that sounds like something the 4000 would have no problem doing as long as it has the output expansion installed (which they often do)

Cool thanks! One more thing, would it be able to register multiple notes of a synth i have sampled and pitch shift them accordingly across an entire keyboard? So, if I had a single note sampled of each octave, could it be configured to pitch them half an octave each direction to preserve quality?

Great. It just surprises me that bands don't use these more often live as samplers. So many laptops...

Laptops can hold a lot more ram, have bigger screens, are more portable and have access to far better sound libraries than the 4K. They also load programs and sounds 10 times faster than the MPC.

The 4K, MPC X and Live all perform reasonably well as makeshift sound modules, providing you’ve got the sample content, but they’re all limited by the amount of ram.