Sly Boogie wrote:I WENT AN BOUT AN SP$)$ N I NOW REGRET IT
I feel you on this one, although I don't quite regret it yet. I like the effects on the 404 a lot, I may end up using it just as an effects processor or I may end up selling it when I get the MPC. Hard to say. One thing is for sure, I bought the 404 because there was no battery powered MPC at the time, otherwise there is no question I would have bought the MPC instead.
The nice thing about the MPC line is it is one of those 'modern' classics like the TB-303, the 808, the 909, the Rhodes piano, and the mini-moog. The big difference is they are still making the MPC line. Okay, moog is back in business, but they are the only one other than akai. I just like it when a company realizes what a good thing they have and that just because an instrument is electronic does not mean it should go out of production or change radically every couple of years.
It takes time to master and develop a style on an instrument, even an electronic one. If people keep changing $hit up on you it gets disruptive and gets in the way of you being able to make music. Because the MPC line has stayed in production and evolved with time, yet kept it's classic features, it has become almost as ubiquitous as a piano, guitar, B3 or any other classic instrument.