Akai MFC-42 Orange? (for Akai MPC 2000XL SE2)???

Not very hard to change pads over to a different colour, everyone here does it anyway, don't like bangin' on the bacon, change it.

Akai beige is so 80's computer boredom, I much prefer the special edition colours, should have my own Bacon2000XL arriving today from ebay.

I think a black/grey MFC-42 would look nice, but I wont be painting mine...

clint246clint wrote:I think a black/grey MFC-42 would look nice, but I wont be painting mine...

oh sh!t!! you got the legendary orange version?!?!?

SimonInAustralia wrote:Not very hard to change pads over to a different colour, everyone here does it anyway, don't like bangin' on the bacon, change it.

Akai beige is so 80's computer boredom, I much prefer the special edition colours, should have my own Bacon2000XL arriving today from ebay.

your trippin! I'm all about that 80/90s beige. So tight. I only wish they made more shit with it now.

m56p87 wrote:

SimonInAustralia wrote:Not very hard to change pads over to a different colour, everyone here does it anyway, don't like bangin' on the bacon, change it.

Akai beige is so 80's computer boredom, I much prefer the special edition colours, should have my own Bacon2000XL arriving today from ebay.

your trippin! I'm all about that 80/90s beige. So tight. I only wish they made more shit with it now.

i couldn't agree more, m56... those special edition mpcs are so damn ugly.

crossings wrote:

m56p87 wrote:

SimonInAustralia wrote:Not very hard to change pads over to a different colour, everyone here does it anyway, don't like bangin' on the bacon, change it.

Akai beige is so 80's computer boredom, I much prefer the special edition colours, should have my own Bacon2000XL arriving today from ebay.

your trippin! I'm all about that 80/90s beige. So tight. I only wish they made more shit with it now.

i couldn't agree more, m56... those special edition mpcs are so damn ugly.

Haha exactly, I haven't seen an SE/LE edition anything I actually like. I would pay considerably less money for an orange MPC not more lol. But to each their own. If that gets you groovin along then by all means.

mr_debauch wrote:

clint246clint wrote:I think a black/grey MFC-42 would look nice, but I wont be painting mine...

oh sh!t!! you got the legendary orange version?!?!?

Hell no.

clint246clint wrote:I like my MFC in traditional Akai beige.

I'm a paid up member of ABAS, the Akai Beige Appreciation Society.

Since the resurgence of this topic and viewing the MFC-42 on a few YouTube vids, it'll definitely be my next purchase... if I can find one.

clint246clint wrote:

damien907 wrote:wtf is that thing connected to the top of the unit?

Akai MFC-42 analogue filter unit, circa. 2001. Designed to go with the MPC2000/XL and even came with special brackets and wiring loom for the MPC. They also came from the factory in blue to match the blue 2000XL.



http://www.vintagesynth.com/akai/mfc42.php

JUKE 179r wrote:Since the resurgence of this topic and viewing the MFC-42 on a few YouTube vids, it'll definitely be my next purchase... if I can find one.

They're going for anywhere between £200-£400 over here, it's the luck of the draw as they dont come up often.

I got this far messing with the colours on a MFC-42 front panel image, to make it look similar to the orange SE2 version in the NAMM trade show photos, before I got bored, so it is not complete...







This is the blue MFC-42 version...





And this must be a pre-release trade show beige MFC-42/MPC2000XL setup, as the MFC-42 has blue and red knobs on the filter section, and the MFC42 logo on the left of the front panel, unlike the released version you can see in the YouTube video above. In the same way that the orange MFC42 in the trade show photos above has different logo positioning to the released beige and blue versions, plus the blue/red filter section knobs, and the orange MPC2000XL-SE2 in the trade show photos above has the original beige style logos, rather than the newer SE2 style logos that are on the released version...





It also seems that the released beige versions had 2 different versions of the top panel graphics, some have a large MFC logo, and some have a Akai Professional logo. The beige trade show version above shows the large MFC logo on the top panel, while the blue version above shows the Akai Professional logo.

It shows both top panel graphics in the manual, in different diagrams...

Opened my MFC-42 the other day to see if I could fix the broken 'Mic/Line' switch on the back of the unit. Should have taken pics, but I was too pissed off. What a PITA getting the front panel back on. Couldn't get to the switch without removing circuit boards, so I called it a day...I'll probably get Jazzcat to fix it for me at some point.

There is now a general thread regarding analogue filters in the 'MPC Studio Environments' forum. If your post has disappeared, it was moved to the new thread.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=161228

clint246clint wrote:There is now a general thread regarding analogue filters in the 'MPC Studio Environments' forum. If your post has disappeared, it was moved to the new thread.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=161228

Thanks for cleaning things up, now If you could only combine all the other redundant threads....