By WavyJonez19
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:55 pm
I never hear much about this machine. Is it good/bad? Beneficent? Malevolent?
NearTao wrote:There's a crowd that swears by them... never used one myself... but the firmware 2.0 seems to fix a number of problems...
my "feel" on it was that it was a rather half baked release, with a lot of promises, that were never *quite* delivered on with the 2.0 update on the 5k. JJOS for the 1k/2.5k really showed what could be done with MPCs from that era, and in my mind the 5k was really overshadowed by the work and effort JJ put into JJOS.
I believe it's a perfectly fine and usable machine, has some "modern" niceties like an onboard synth... but I fear it's probably still buggy enough, and at this point old enough... that you know the software won't get fixed... and the hardware will need to be maintained.