By distortedtekno
Wed Dec 30, 2015 4:43 am
One more year and it's officially vintage. It still feels like yesterday when I was introduced to the 2000 from a friend of mine. At the time, it was a real game changer for many of us with features that weren't available on the 3000. Plus we couldn't afford the 3000 at $5000. My friend got the 2000 for Christmas in 1997 and I ended up spending the same amount of money building a PC a few months later, as I suddenly got hooked on ReBirth and Cubase. But I missed the feel of dedicated hardware and still enjoyed making beats with my friend on his MPC.
I went through a lot of software and hardware since my first drum machine (Boss DR-550mk2) when I started in 1995. Nothing compared to the MPC2000. In 2004, I bought the MPC1000 and spent a good 8 years with it before selling it to buy a Mac Mini and start working with Reason 6. I started missing my MPC after a year or two later. Then in late 2013, a friend of mine had 3 nonworking MPC2000s that he gave me to salvage. So I built 2, sold one, and sold some leftover parts. I pondered selling the unit that I kept over the years for a newer model. But the truth is, I don't need anything more than what the 2000 had already offered since day one when it was first released, and they don't make MPCs like they used to. So with all the spare parts and the new LCD displays available, I'll keep this machine going for another 20 years and still enjoy it.
If you read the Sound On Sound article, the review unit's OS was dated 24 December 1996. But I didn't want to wait 360 more days to make this thread for it's 20th anniversary. I'll start celebrating early.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/apr97/akaimcp2000.html
I went through a lot of software and hardware since my first drum machine (Boss DR-550mk2) when I started in 1995. Nothing compared to the MPC2000. In 2004, I bought the MPC1000 and spent a good 8 years with it before selling it to buy a Mac Mini and start working with Reason 6. I started missing my MPC after a year or two later. Then in late 2013, a friend of mine had 3 nonworking MPC2000s that he gave me to salvage. So I built 2, sold one, and sold some leftover parts. I pondered selling the unit that I kept over the years for a newer model. But the truth is, I don't need anything more than what the 2000 had already offered since day one when it was first released, and they don't make MPCs like they used to. So with all the spare parts and the new LCD displays available, I'll keep this machine going for another 20 years and still enjoy it.
If you read the Sound On Sound article, the review unit's OS was dated 24 December 1996. But I didn't want to wait 360 more days to make this thread for it's 20th anniversary. I'll start celebrating early.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/apr97/akaimcp2000.html