after 10 years my MPC 2000 XL still works ......!!!!

After purchasing my MPC 2000 XL 10 years ago for 800 pounds it still work....


LCD ......still going strong (needs a clean)

SCSI.....finally turned off that WHINEY hdd and replaced with sd reader (data error)

BUTTONS..... replaced buttons on M/board , now i can go up and down again

PADS.....oh well after 10 years of repetative drum beats wouldnt you need a rest

DATA WHEEL.... still working after being spun more times that a roundabout

NOTE SLIDER..if AKAI made sliders they would probably be the best sliders in the world

MIDI..... still amazes me how it can handle all that data

AUDIO...ooops i blew the OP AMPS oh well lucky i just bought an 8 out board.

MEMORY...when i was a lad i had a 386 sx 25 4mb simms now thats power!!!!!



Anyway the MPC is still the daddy of sequencers everybody has used one.

Well there are plenty of 60's and 3000's still kickin' it.

I think it was after the 4000 in 2001 that Akai's build quality began to nosedive.

Something to do with corporate ownership I believe...

clint246clint wrote:Well there are plenty of 60's and 3000's still kickin' it.

I think it was after the 4000 in 2001 that Akai's build quality began to nosedive.

Something to do with corporate ownership I believe...

so sad but so true...

my pre-corporate buyout machines only ever need a backlight and maybe a tact switch these newer machines need complete pad sensor upgardes and jog replacements after a year its pretty pathetic but thanks to JJos they actuallu accomplish things i wish the older machines could do....

InsiteTheG-A wrote:my pre-corporate buyout machines only ever need a backlight and maybe a tact switch these newer machines need complete pad sensor upgardes and jog replacements after a year its pretty pathetic but thanks to JJos they actuallu accomplish things i wish the older machines could do....

there are reasons being bought out by numark looked good to akai at the time! I suspect not being able to sustain themselves from the sale of 'professional' oriented equipment anymore was one of them.